Sights

Baby Girl and the town of Cot will stay with you forever. I've never read anything like this. It's fantastique.

Baby Girl has an unusual name and unusual ability to see the future, and her mother dotes on her. When they flee her abusive father to begin a new life, Baby Girl finds new talents to take her to a new school, friends, and a beginning which offers new challenges as well. An unusual, unpredictable story line.

MY SISTER LET ME READ THIS BOOK. SHE'S IN HIGH SCHOOL AND I'M IN SEVENTH GRADE. SHE LOVED IT AND SO DID I. MY MOTHER IS GOING TO READ IT NEXT. TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN TO BABY GIRLS BUT SHE JUST ROCKS ON. IF I HAD TO MOVE TO A NEW SCHOOL OR HAD A DAD LIKE HERS, SHE'D BE MY MODEL FOR HOW TO SURVIVE. SHE'S COOL LIKE MY SISTER. SHE RULES!

At our school, we are encouraged to read all the American Library Association nominations for Best Young Adult Book. Sometimes they are predictable or written more for children than high school students. Sights was written for smart kids that identify more with the stuggle to grow up than with try outs for cheerleader. Baby Girl is just an awesome person who makes friends with the town window-peeker and general rebel, Selda. I couldn't get enough of these two and the adventures of their eveyday life. I hope Susanna Vance writes a dozen more novels for readers like me.

This is a book about a girl who has a terrible father and a good mom. The girl and the mom move to a town where no one likes them. The girl starts a band that really rocks. A short boy in the band gets tall and she goes out with him. The mom makes friends too. The dad shows up and there's big trouble. ....