

There's nothing like adventure and loneliness to bring two young people together. Then there's the mysterious behavior of their celebrated guide Diego who appears to be stealing four orphan tortoises. Both Cat and Noah are part of the "albatross" group so they find themselves spending more and more time together. Noah usually dates blonde, flirty girls, but Cat argues with him and spends time looking through the viewfinder of her new Janus XR15 camera. He has good looks "but there's something going on with that kid." On the other hand, Cat is not the kind of girl Noah is usually attracted to. Noah's parents are getting a divorce and Noah has traveled with his older half brother, Henry, to help test snorkeling equipment for their dad's business.

Cat accompanies her bird-loving parents to the Galapagos Islands and meets Noah on the first evening at an elaborate dinner. Love unexpectedly catches Cat and Noah, both 16 years old, in Noticing paradise by Ellen Wittlinger. Plummer's humorous and light-hearted approach to romance makes delightful reading about a subject that is no laughing matter to young people in love for the first time.


Kate is terribly hurt and has to decide whether to forgive Richard or never see him again. Then they go to a posh New Year's Eve party and Kate catches Richard kissing a sexy, ex-friend of hers. They spend some idyllic moments kissing, skating and generally enjoying the Christmas season. When Kate realizes that Richard loves her, too, she is ecstatic. Kate falls in love with her brother's best friend, Richard, who comes home from college to spend the holidays with the Bjorkman family. Just because The unlikely romance of Kate Bjorkman by Louise Plummer is a romantic comedy, doesn't mean that Kate doesn't have a difficult decision to make. The following eight novels and one informational book show young adults making hard choices as they struggle to make sense of their lives. If only the rules for our lives were as easy to follow as traffic rules, young adults would know exactly how to get where they wanted to go and what the consequences would be if they disobeyed the rules. To drive to the high school he simply travels along Appleton Street for twelve blocks, obeying the 30 mile speed limit and stopping at one four-way stop sign. Living in a small town helps he can drive to band practice and track and McDonald's quickly and easily. My old blue Corsica has traveled 96,342 miles, but it can get Josh where he wants to go. Josh takes it to school in the morning I keep it in the afternoon. AT THIS MOMENT MY SON AND I have joint custody of my car.
