Genre: Realistic Fiction
# of Pages: 292
Kaylee lives a fairly ordinary life for a teenage girl until she is approached by a woman doing a podcast on Kaylee’s birth mom. Kaylee’s birth mom is famous for possibly having telekinetic powers based on a photo taken when she was a teen, although her powers were never proven. She’s also known for murdering her infant son and going to prison for it, which is why Kaylee has lived with her adoptive parents ever since and has no memory of her life with her mom at all. Kaylee’s parents are against her interviewing for the podcast because they are afraid it will dredge up painful memories, but Kaylee feels like she needs to know the truth about her mom and agrees to help. Once the podcast begins airing it becomes a local phenomenon and many of Kaylee’s classmates begin to wonder if she has telekinetic powers too since she is an excellent softball pitcher and a girl she doesn’t particularly like gets hit by a falling tree branch. Suddenly, Kaylee isn’t sure what to believe anymore. Is it possible her mother has special abilities and if so, could she?
This story is engaging right from the beginning. Kaylee’s need to meet her mother and bring closure to her past is all very understandable, but it plays out very realistically and that’s hard for her to handle. As she navigates through the twists and turns in this story, Kaylee learns a lot about herself, her parents, her mom, and her friends. The ending is satisfying, but it’s the realistic writing style that will really help readers to identify with and care about Kaylee and her story.
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