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A gifted painter, Sadie comes from California to Connecticut determined to fit in at her new school. Yet her first attempt at making friends in the new town backfires when she reaches out to the loner everyone calls Fryin' Ryan, the very last person who can help her achieve her dream. And to further complicate matters, her twin brother, Ollie, keeps appearing to her, seeming to want something. Her twin brother, who died when they were twelve.
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School Library Journal Review
Gr 7 Up-Since her family's move to the East Coast from California, Sadie has tried to fit in and have everyone think she's normal, which is something that outcast Fryin' Ryan of the weird T-shirts is definitely not buying. Ollie, Sadie's twin brother who died four years earlier, keeps appearing, and it's so hard not to talk to him. Sketching and drawing are her real love, but Sadie does well in academics too, using her competence to make friends with Lila, who sets the guidelines for cool at Pioneer High. Good-looking football star Travis seems to be paying attention, and Sadie is sure that if she can just keep her act together she'll have it all. Characters of every age come to life with vivid descriptions and dialogue that make this spare mood piece work. The pain of the parents who want to overprotect their last child, the friendly principal, Lila's mother's cryptic style that never masks her suffering, the sleazy coach who teaches driver's ed, and even deadpan Lila's uncharacteristic emotional outburst all fuel the fugue that is Sadie's gradual connection to what truly matters to her.-Carol A. Edwards, Douglas County Libraries, Castle Rock, CO (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
Four years after her twin brother's death, budding artist Sadie and her family move across the country. Sadie's guilt merges with angst over attending a new school and her inability to paint the ocean. The story veers toward melodrama, but the mystery surrounding Sadie's relationship with her brother (is she seeing a ghost or is it all in her mind?) will sustain readers. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
In lyrical, sweetly unhurried prose, MacCullough paints Sadie, a 16-year-old artist newly transplanted to the east coast from California. Sadie's twin brother Ollie died when they were 12 and reappears to her on a regular basis; they have conversations. At her new school, Sadie wants to be normal. A sharp-edged but loyal friend comes along, attaching herself to Sadie and bringing along a small social group, including a gorgeous, magnetic boyfriend. Sadie sketches and paints constantly, both for herself (she always did) and because she promised Ollie she'd draw him the ocean. A tentative friendship with school outcast Ryan is vaguely hostile, but not in a problematic way. Sadie slowly navigates that friendship, forbidden at school, and hesitantly confronts her own desire to learn how to drive, prohibited by her frightened mother because Ollie died in a car accident. MacCullough's subtle use of present tense and visually evocative writing create an eloquent portrait. (Fiction. YA) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
MacCullough's third novel is narrated by 16-year-old Sadie, a painter who has drawn the ocean every day since her twin, Ollie, was hit by a car four years earlier. The family never discusses Ollie's death, but he is not wholly dead to Sadie. He still visits and chats with her, although it's more a haunting than a relationship. Sadie has just moved to a new school, and after meeting the popular and daring Lila, she quickly gets drawn into the popular crowd with all its advantages: the parties, the beer, the pot, and the affection of the hot football player with the metaphorically resonant name Travis Hartshorn. But two things keep her from happiness: the painful memory of Ollie's death, and the briefcase-carrying, poetry-writing loner known in school as Fryin' Ryan. Ryan is a loser par excellence, but Sadie finds him absolutely fascinating. There are some overwrought passages here, but Sadie's narrative voice is absolutely authentic, and the story of her quirky, endearing relationship with Ryan is memorably poignant. --John Green Copyright 2006 Booklist