Far from Xanadu
A Glbt, Lesbian, Young Adult book. Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible....
From the author of Luna comes this heartbreaking yet hopeful novel about a small-town girl who falls in love with the cool, complicated, and sexy new girl in town, but who is just out of reach. In this fresh, poignant novel Mike is struggling to come to terms with her father's suicide and her mother's detachment from her family. Mike (real name Mary Elizabeth) is gay and likes to pump iron, play softball and fix plumbing. When a glamorous new girl, Xanadu, arrives in Mike's small Kansas town, she falls in love at first sight. Xanadu is everything that Mike is not - cool, confident, feminine, sexy and - straight! No matter how close their growing friendship is, Mike is always going to be 'far from Xanadu'.Following the success of Luna, Julie Ann Peters' has written a heartbreaking, yet ultimately hopeful, novel which will speak to anyone who has ever fallen in love with someone who can't love them back
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 288 pages
- ISBN: 9780316158817 / 0
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Wiping the rivulet of sweat running down my ear with the bottom of my muscle shirt, I snuck a sniff under my pit. Whoa. Kill a moose Julie Anne Peters, Far from Xanadu I better get the hearse back before dark." Xanadu sighed. "Uncle Lee got into it with Aunt Faye about me even borrowing it." Grabbing Jamie by his cougar emblem, she added, "Let's go, girlfriend." She yanked him toward the parking lot. I heard Jamie say, "Could I ride in the trunk and pretend I'm a corpse? Julie Anne Peters, Far from Xanadu Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control. Julie Anne Peters, Far from Xanadu
Read this review and more on my blog!Actual Rating: 3.5/5In a nutshell: I had mixed feelings about this but it's a quick and not bad, yet not extraordinary, read about family and loving someone who doesn't love you the same way back.I've been wanting to read something by Julie Anne Peters for a while now. Her Young Adult fiction often... The only character I liked in this book was the best friend. The other characters just made me so mad. And I know you aren't supposed to like every character in a book, I just happened to like most in this one. It was real. I just didn't like the characters reality. If you've been following me for a while, you'll know that I love Peters books, and even though I have a stack of books on the waiting to be read pile, I couldn't wait to start reading it when I got it last week. And I really enjoyed it. Admittedly, I didn't click with it when I first started, which I usually do - but after a while,...
