My Life in Black and White
By Natasha Friend
(Viking Juvenile, Hardcover, 9780670013036, 304pp.)
Publication Date: June 14, 2012
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback
Categories: Social Issues - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Social Issues - Friendship, Family - Siblings
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What if you lost the thing that made you who you are?
Lexi has always been stunning. Her butter-colored hair and perfect features have helped her attract friends, a boyfriend, and the attention of a modeling scout. But everything changes the night Lexi's face goes through a windshield. Now she's not sure what's worse: the scars she'll have to live with forever, or what she saw going on between her best friend and her boyfriend right before the accident. With the help of her trombone-playing, defiantly uncool older sister and a guy at school recovering from his own recent trauma, Lexi learns she's much more than just a pretty face.
Natasha Friend is the author of three middle grade novels and one other young adult novel. The mother of three young children, she lives in Madison, Connecticut.
"Authentic dialogue, complex characters and an interesting narration lift this story above others with a similar theme. . . . Lexi's sarcastic wit and genuine emotion make her a girl readers will root for. Artful and satisfying."
-Kirkus Reviews
"Lexi's journey is rewarding and powerful. . . . Friend's (For Keeps) character-driven novel is an affecting and insightful portrait of recovery and the experiences that shape an individual."
-Publisher's Weekly
"Readers who enjoy satisfying character transformations, such as in Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall, will be rapidly flipping the pages of Friend's well-written and thoughtful novel."
-School Library Journal
"This novel is about family, friends, love, and above all, the hard journey to self-acceptance."
-Booklist
"My Life in Black and White is a realistic fiction that really has you wondering 'What if this happened to me?'"
-Seventeen.com
"A solid and adolescent-appealing premise, and [an] accessibly written story."
-The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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