Nicholas Sparks fans will like Golden. Parker Frost is the perfect daughter for her mother: she has always done what her mother wants so that she can go to Stanford and become a doctor, but is that what she really wants?
Mr. Kinney, a teacher at Parker's school, gives the seniors a composition notebook near the end of school and poses a question to answer. The students write down their answers in the book anyway they want, seal them up, give them to their teacher who hold on to them for ten years and then mails them to the students. Parker was to mail out all the composition books, but when she came across a dead girl's, she did something out the ordinary: she took the journal and read it.
Kirby gives teenagers what Sparks gives all of us to believe in: true love and fate. I like how Kirby begins each chapter with a line from one of Robert Frost's poems.
How would you answer the question Mr. Kinney poses from Mary Oliver's poem "The Summer Day":
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"
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