Where Are You When I Need You?

Where Are You Whe I Need You is a young adult story about a girl named Missy Cord who received a scholarship to go to college. The only problem is that she is worried about leaving her family, friends and her community. She lives with her mother, uncle, and grandmother. Every time that she wants to bring something up about college her family would go crazy. They never wanted her to go to college or move away. Her teacher keeps on telling her that she is going to have to bring it up to her family sometime and so Missy does. She tells her mother that she had received a scholarship to a college called Moriah (which is an all girls school). Her mother thought about it for a while and she finally told Missy that she could go. Her uncle isn't too happy about it and he doesn't want her to go. It was very hard for Missy to live with her uncle because he never liked anything that she did and he would always say the opposite of what Missy had to say. Missy only had very few friends. Her closest friend was Jim. Missy and Jim had grown up together and had always gotten along. During highschool they were still good friends, but not like they used to be. The reason is because of a girl named Melony and she was trying to take Jim and Missy friendship away. One day Missy and Jim were riding home from school and she wanted to ask him a question. She asked him if he thought that she was pretty. Jim had never really looked at her that way before until she had mentioned it. He didn't really think that she was and she could tell that in the tone of his voice when he answered her. She asked him not to drop her off at her house but to take her to a hair place. She decided right then and there that she had to change and try to look pretty. She cut her long hair off and she liked it a lot. Her uncle, of course, wasn't very happy when he saw that she cut her hair, but Missy didn't really care about what he thought. The next day when she went to school everyone was starting to notice her and so did Jim. After that Jim started to like Missy, but she didn't realize it. A few months later there was going to be a school dance. Missy never really expected Jim to ask her to the dance, but sure enough he did. They had a lot of fun at the dance, but she was thinking that now she had fallen in love and she had to move away to college soon. I really liked the way that Suzanne Newton wrote this book! Every time that I would get to the end of one chapter I wouldn't want to put the book down I would want to keep on reading to find out what would happen next. I also really liked the character Missy in the book because she stood up for what she believed in and she wasn't afarid to tell people how she felt. I think that it is a very good example for teens because it shows them how to be strong and it also shows them that they can do anything that they want to do as long as they try their hardest. The part about the book that I didn't really like was how the writer

This book is fantastic, it tells about a high school girl who was gratuating from High School and preparing herself to go to college. Well, she had this really good friends of hers and they always hung out together. This friend was a guy, who she suddenly felt in love with... Now the ideas to go to college got more complicated because she was falling in love with the guy. I mean It's never easy leaving home especially when you've fallen in love for the first time. This books explains how she worked that out!!It's a great book especially for girls who are falling in love for the firt time or going away to college!

This book has a gentle narration that goes well with the suburban setting. It doesn't have beautiful, brilliant characters who will wow you out of your senses. The characters are ones whom you see everyday as you go to school, go shopping, ride a bus, whatever. That may be one of the strongest point of this book- it is never pretentious. It manages to convey across the urgent emotions of the narrator, Missy Cord, as she struggles through the problem of picking out what is the best choice of her life, without loosing her famliy, boyfriend, or education in college in the process. The ending was not what I'd expected, but it's realistic, if not exactly grand- but then this is not that type of book.

Just wondered why this title isn't linked to the author by name. It was written by Suzanne Newton. It is worth the read. A teenager girl does not have to go to a high- profile college to be successful.