cover Title: Feeling Sorry for Celia
Author: Jaclyn Moriarty

type of book: YA Fiction
call number: YA/FIC

This book is strong in character and story.

Summary:
Elizabeth doesn't really fit in at her private school and her best friend Celia is even more of an outcast. At the beginning of the novel, Elizabeth is writing and answering her first few letters and readers discover that Celia is not at school. Celia has run away from home yet again, but this time she has not phoned Elizabeth to say that she's Ok. Eventually, Elizabeth receives a postcard from Celia saying she joined the circus. Also, Christina (the letter pen pal) and Elizabeth start becoming good friends, at least through writing.

Elizabeth starts talking to one of popular cute boys (Saxon Walker) at school who happens to be a runner like her. They talk and become friends. Celia's postcards get more depressing and scary and Saxon convinces Elizabeth they must go and rescue Celia from the circus.

When Celia was gone some bad things happened with Christina, her pen pal, like having sex for the first time, thinking she might be pregnant, and breaking up with her boyfriend. Also, one of Christina's friends, who rides the same bus as Elizabeth, has a secret crush on Elizabeth and leaves anonymous letters.

I would recommend this book!

Why?
This is a good story with lots of interesting characters with real life qualities. The format of the book is unique in that the whole story is told only through letters, never in the traditional prose style.

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