Running

I loved this! I really appreciate how Mari acted very much like a real teenager. Sometimes YA authors make teens act like smaller adults and it shows. At first, I wasn't sure that it was believable that Mari didn't know her father's positions on anything but as the story went on I got it. He was so controlling of his image and his family that Mari never thought to question him before. I also liked how there wasn't a tidy ending: Mari's dad didn't magically change his entire platform because she wanted him to, adults let teens down, and progress didn't happen overnight.

This is a great example for teens - and adults, honestly - that change can be frustratingly slow but that doesn't mean it's not worth fighting for.