Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Summary

Bella Kirkwood gets shipped from her rich life with her dad in New York, to Oklahoma where her mom has just remarried. Oklahoma is the opposite of everything she’s ever known—it’s low-class, small, and filled with cows.

Characters

Bella is a little annoying at first, but she comes around and you fall in love with her. I also love the guy she crushes on toward the end. He is hot. Bella’s mom bugs me, but don’t all mothers?

Plot

About half-way through a “mystery” happens, and I loved watching Bella try to uncover it. This is when the plot really picked up for me and kept me turning the pages.

Thoughts

My preference for YA novels is serious, contemporary, and romance. But I know Jenny is funny, so I picked this one up. I was getting my car vacuumed/washed and became so engrossed in the novel that I didn’t hear them call my name to tell me my car was finished. I sat for three hours and finished the book! That is a good book to me.

Jenny is hilariously funny (I’m pretty sure a couple of people looked my way when I laughed out loud).

This is published by a Christian publisher, and was clean through and through. Any teen can read it and not be offended by anything (except maybe cows?!). Even though I love Christian fiction, I’m not one for “preaching” scenes, which happens once in the book. Still, Bella is so funny and cracks a joke about everything, that it makes it okay to me.

I would highly recommend this for any teen (or parent!)