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Fifteen Point Nine | Holly Dobbie

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No one at school knew that fifteen-year-old Aggie and her mother were hoarders until the Idiot Boys. That made her even more a target of bullies than she was before. At home, aka The Dump, her loneliness and despair are further punctuated by her mother's alcoholism, neglect, and paranoia. But Aggie is a warrior and she devises a plan to fight back ---a plan that enlists a few of the other misfits at school. The plan isn't an easy one, though, and when she is beaten by a group of girls, she finds strength and encouragement from some unlikely sources. Will it be enough to turn her life around? And will she somehow be able to save her mother, who continues a downward spiral of neglect?

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Fifteen Point Nine | Holly Dobbie

so-so

This YA book highlights the important issues of alcoholism, hoarding, and suicide but the author‘s character development, writing style, and structure are weak. The prose took on a slightly childish tone, especially when she used onomatopoeia for sounds like the phone ringing. Teens might relate to it but I think there are other YA books that cover these issues more skillfully.

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