P.S. Be Eleven

Oh gosh, I loved this. I'm so, so impressed with all the complicated issues tangled up in this plot–race, class, radical politics, the Vietnam war, intercultural exchange, new stepparents, drug addiction–all organically woven into the narrative, with funny, likeable characters. I feel like a story like this could so easily veer into “afterschool special” territory but it's the exact OPPOSITE of that. Just great!