This is another Gateway Readers nominee, but not one of my favorites.
Book Title: Chasing Brooklyn by Lisa
Schroeder
Topic: Grief and supernatural
Thoughts: Schroeder
writes this in poetry form like Ellen Hopkins.
Each chapter switches from Brooklyn to Nico’s
point of view. Nico’s brother, Lucca,
who is also Brooklyn’s boyfriend, dies in a car crash
over Christmas vacation while Brooklyn is visiting
family. Gabe, who was driving the car, later
dies from an overdose.
This novel was believable to me until Lucca’s
ghosts visits Nico in his dreams telling him to save Brooklyn,
and Gabe visits Brooklyn in her dreams and she fears
going to sleep. Both fear telling the
other about being haunted and have to learn to trust and help each other over Lucca
and Gabe’s death.
I don’t know if I want Nico and Brooklyn
to end up together as they fall for each other.
This is not a book I will be "chasing" to recommend for my students to read.
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