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One pint-sized girl. Ten supersized crises. And it's high noon. Madeline 'Twigs' Henry is a small teen in the shadow of some big problems. Born prematurely, and still so tiny in stature that people think she's in the fifth grade, Twigs has a mighty spirit. She needs that spirit when life throws a bucket of stones at her. It starts with a drunken deserter dad. Mom and little sister are so obsessed with their own love lives that Twigs has to take care of both of them. Her adored soldier brother Matt is suddenly missing in the Middle East. Just as Twigs is trying to figure out how she can solve everybody's problems (and find out if her boyfriend is cheating on her after just one week away at school), the flash of a knife slices her life, and Twigs must stand up to a gang of thugs to try to save the person she loves most--the very father who left her all alone.
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If you like soap operas, you will love this book.
Holy hell.
Honestly, I should have been prepared for what I was getting into based on the publisher's blurb - but it was almost as bad (or good, if you like that kind of thing) as a tele-novella.
Like whoa.
THE DRAMA. OH MY GOD THE DRAMA.
I'm 99% sure it is statistically impossible for one person to endure the level of sheer drama that Madeline “Twigs” Henry went through over the course of this book. If it wasn't so sad it would have been laughable!
To recap...
You will love this book if:
-you ride the drama llama to work each day
-someone has ever thrown hair dye at you
-you too are stuck with an unfortunate nickname you're desperate to be rid of
-you are vertically challenged and want to read about the lives of others just like yourself
Otherwise... you might want to skip this one.