Had that not been the case, well, I can pretty much guarantee you I'd have stopped reading this after the first ten pages. The only reason I even bothered finishing this is because I have to review it for Book Divas. But the thunder of praise surrounding Parker and his accomplishments reduces her voice to broken Only Parker's little sister Danielle seems to notice that he's withering away. And he certainly can't tell Julianne, the "vision of hotness" he so desperately wants to love. He can't tell his hired college consultant. He can't tell his achievement-obsessed father. The countdown to HYP (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) has begun, and he will stay focused. A dropped extracurricular, a C on a calc quiz, a non-Jewish shiksa girlfriend―one misstep, and his meticulously constructed life splinters and collapses. These trees fall unexpectedly during a storm." For high school senior Parker Rabinowitz, anything less than success is a failure. A 2009 Sydney Taylor Award Notable Books for Teens winner Bronze Medal winner for the Young Adult Fiction category of ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards "Sometimes trees can look healthy on the outside, but actually be dying inside.
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