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"Lynn's own life is full with choir practice, school, shopping for the perfect jeans, and dealing with her free-spirited mother. Then one day her life is saved by a mysterious girl named Blossom, who introduces Lynn to her own world and family who are both more bizarre, yet somehow more sane, than Lynn. Blossom's own family is a small band of outcasts and eccentrics who live secretly in an ingenious bunker beneath a city reservoir. Lynn is enchanted and amazed. But when she inadvertently reveals their secret, she is forced to take measure of her own motives and lifestyle, as she figures out what it really means to be a family and a friend. This novel is smart, rich, engaging and insightful."--Provided from publisher.
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This book was amazing. First, I thought that it was a tad unaccessible because there is a bit of slangy descriptors in the beginning, but they grew on me. I have read many books with many bad parents in them, but the mother in this one deserves a punch in the face. I would love to read more about the Underlanders, I was so charmed and thrilled by their lifestyle that I would read faster until we could get back to them. As a librarian THIS is exactly why I am so sensitive to children and adults who walk into the library who cannot produce id. I've never been a rule follower anyway, but just imagine if Blossom came into your library and was not able to get online because of a stupid rule. How detrimental that would be?
I know people like this exist, and whether it is an intended lifestyle or one forced onto them, we should have respect. It is possible to be a “citizen” and not walk around so completely self absorbed in our consumer culture.
We need more books like this, pronto. Or at least, I want to read them.
Edit: I forgot to mention the gorgeous cover. It's what drew me to the book, and at first I thought it was a graphic novel. So beautiful.