Brave New Girl

"It was so hot the whole time. Burning right up. I could feel the sweat on my back seeping through the sheets. My mouth was dry, and I felt like all my bones were creaking like a rusty bicycle every time I moved. But I didn't actually move all that much. I didn't know what I should do. It was easier having my eyes covered, I think. I think staring at a bunch of black was easier. It sort of made me feel like I was in space or something. It helped because I didn't know anything about anything. Sometimes it helps for someone to cover your eyes because that was you don't have to see if you' re doing anything wrong."
IF only we could have someone put their hands over our eyes to avoid all the terrible experiences we endured in our adolescence. Unfourtanely, many teenagers go through where a simple "hand over the yes so I am invisible" tactic cant prepare us for. In Louisa' Luna's book, Brave New Girl, the main character Doreen has to deal with being an outsider in a school of clicks, parents that don't understand her, an older brother that was kicked out of her family when she was much younger, and having to deal with issues that no fourteen year old should have have to endure. As a modern day Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye, Doreen brings back the craziness that many people go through in adolescence. Every reader can relate to something in Doreen's life that has either happened to her or to someone in her surroundings. It is important to remember where you came from how you became the person you are now. Brave New Girl takes the hands over your eyes and brings you back to the time that shaped who you are today.