I think that being thirteen can really be painful. It can be a very awkward and messy and emotional and blah. Dani Noir is written so well and so realistically that you really get a sense of what it feels like to be thirteen and feeling really uncomfortable in your own skin, in your family, your neighborhood, your friends. And it also gives hope, but not in a cheesy, fakey way.Dani is dealing with her mom and dad's divorce, the fact that her dad cheated on her mom and is now going to marry his lover, the moving away of her best friend, crushes and all kinds of things. She finds solice in the black and white films of Rita Hayworth and afternoons spent in the art film house in town. This book is painful in places and very funny in others. Plus it has a decent mystery to it. A most excellent tween book.
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