September 7th, 2015
This summer I read Goodbye
Stranger by Rebecca Stead. This is the best
book by far that I have read in a while. This book is about three best friends,
Bridge, Tabitha, and Emily. Bridge, the main character, roller-skated into
traffic when she was eight.
The book takes place in New York, and this setting is
extremely important because of how much these characters move from place to
place throughout the book.
It’s seventh grade and everything starts to change. No more doodle
creatures in the corner of their homework, and the three start getting into
their own thing. Bridge meets a
boy in Tech Crew named Sherm who she starts to hang out with. Tabitha gets involved with the Human
Rights Club, and Emily is on the soccer team and starts to text a boy named Patrick.
When an inappropriate photo of Emily is sent around school, Bridge and Tabitha
are there to support her. This
book really shows how these three best friends stuck together trying hard not
to fight through a very difficult year.
I
found this book similar in a way to the book Leap Day by Wendy Mass.
This is because in that book, there were four best friends who went
through a birthday filled with special activities. This book is similar, although the events in Goodbye
Stranger are not as cheer-filled and are
real-life issues people deal with.
Like Leap Day, Goodbye
Stranger also has chapters with alternate
perspectives including one from a girl who you do not know the true identity of
until the end of the book.
I recommend this book specifically
for those that are in middle school, although I believe anyone over the age of
ten could enjoy this book. I also
recommend this book for those who love realistic fiction.
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