Victoria an "A" student
with a rough exterior considers herself boy proof.  She’s too smart and too tough for any boy to like her.

Victoria is a dominant figure when it comes to class
discussions.  She’s bright and
aggressive.  She belongs to the Sci-fi
club and her heroine is Egg. She alienates herself from everyone and considers
no one as a friend. She shaves her head and wears a white cloak.

She is "Egg".  The white cloaked heroine of the movie
"Terminal Earth 42".  Victoria
takes on this characters demeanor in this book but later finds her real self
takes shape.

Every afternoon she would sculpt
movie monsters with her workaholic father. 
Her father is a special effects guru and her mother an actress.

There are some wrenching moments in
the story when her mother’s career is put on hold due to a pregnancy.  She tries to reconnect with her daughter but
is rejected.

Victoria goes to Melrose prep and
there she meets Max Carter.  Max sees
through Victoria’s aggressive exterior. 
Soon she finds that she is thinking about Max in exciting but yet
disturbing ways.  Her grades begin to
fall and she’s called to the dean of students’ office.  She rebuffs Max because of this. 

 Max tries to help Egg see through the fiction she’s created for
herself which is rippling through the rest of her life.  Egg is really a mass of worry and doubt.  She discovers by a series of event that if
she doesn’t change she will end up with a lonely future.    

The author traces Egg’s journey
from self-defined friendless, boy-proof outsider along the path to discovering
who she wants to be.

Egg’s hopelessness makes for a
depressing story that is still worth reading.

© 2006 Patricia Ball

Patricia
Ball, B.A., applies the following descriptions to herself:

• Research Chemist for 23 years
• BA degree in Biology, Elms
  College
• Recent graduate of Institute
  of Children’s Literature
• Wife and Mother of two
• Published Poet/Writer
• Enjoy composing music, art,
  writing, reading
• Interested in Metaphysics,
  Psychology and Science
• Enjoy traveling:  USA,
  Canada and Europe

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