![]() All three girls receive a male “Brooker Kid” for their pen pal, and the relationships they build with each boy range from friendship, to romance, to visceral hate, to an outlet for catharsis, to a challenging game of one-upmanship. Botherit’s class is assigned a student to write to, and receive letters from, at nearby Brookfield High. Lydia, Emily, and Cassie are given an assignment in English class: the Pen Pal Project. ![]() I accidentally read them in reverse order but they were just as good backwards as forwards and can really be read in any order. Feeling Sorry for Celia, and The Murder of Bindy MacKenzie round out the trilogy about teens attending Ashbury High in Australia. ![]() Jaclyn Moriarty has created a set of young adult books in this format, with The Year of Secret Assignments being the second, and my favorite, of the three. I have somehow developed an affinity for epistolary novels, or books written in the form of letters and other documents adding up to a whole story. ![]()
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