Celine

"Show a little maturity," he said, which I've doped out to mean: Pass all your courses, avoid detection in all crimes and misdemeanors, don't get pregnant. Celine's father has left her with these instructions. She's not too worried about the last two, but she'll fail English unless she rewrites her Catcher in the Ryeessay. And she keeps being interrupted, especially by Jake, the neighbor's boy, who's been dumped on her for the weekend. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A School Library JournalBest Book of the Year A BooklistBest Book of the '80s A Publishers WeeklyBest Children's Book of the YearCole, Brock is the author of 'Celine', published 2003 under ISBN 9780374410827 and ISBN 0374410828.