Sweethearts (2008) (Little, Brown)Sara Zarr
Grade: A-
Genre: young adult
Source: own
General RBC 2015: A classic YA novel
Once upon a time, Jennifer Harris
and Cameron Quick were best friends. Social outcasts at school, they came to
depend on each other in a way that only they understood. When one day Cameron
doesn’t turn up for school and Jennifer is told that he’s dead, her world is
turned upside down. Now in high school, Jennifer Harris is no more. ‘Jenna’ has
a happy family after her mum remarried, a close-knit group of friends and a doting
boyfriend of three months. When Cameron returns out of the blue, Jenna’s life
is thrown out-of-sync – again. As their relationship clicks back into place as
if picking up where they left off, they are both forced to remember their
shared history and Jenna’s new life suddenly hangs in the balance …
