Girlhearts

Silver is a fifteen-year-old girl who lives in a trailer park with her mother. Her mother suddenly dies of a heart attack at only twenty-nine years of age.

The book then deals with how Silver reacts to this, and how her personality changes and she becomes more withdrawn and somewhat nasty. The father her mother divorced plans to marry someone else; the people she's living with don't seem to really want her, and there are some relatives from the past who seem to have had some kind of major argument with her mother, and had nothing else to do with her.

So she has an awful lot to deal with. It's an interesting path she has to follow, and it definitely makes for an interesting read. Her reaction is somewhat more realistic than is sometimes done in a book where a child loses a parent and isn't really that affected; in this case, Silver is devastated and has a lot of problems.

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