Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

There’s a line from the movie Juno that kept floating through my head as I read Val Brelinski’s The Girl Who Slept with God. One night, as the title character Juno returns home, her dad asks her what’s she’s been up to. She answers, “Dealing with things way above my maturity level.” Jory Quanbeck deals with things way above her maturity level all through this book. Jory is stranded in an environment where she is surrounded with people who don’t know what to do. Because she’s only 14, Jory has a lot she has to figure out on her own. First, her sister turns up pregnant. Then Jory has to go to a secular school. After that, things get much, much worse in this heartbreaking and frustrating novel...

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