A Month of Mondays

by Joelle Anthony

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Pub Date Mar 07 2017 | Archive Date Feb 01 2017

Description

Suze Tamaki's life gets turned upside down when her mother moves back to town after a ten-year absence. Once Suze gets over her initial cynicism, she thinks it might be cool to get to know her mom. But her sister, Tracie, is determined to make Suze's life a misery for even considering it. At school, things aren't much better, as one of her teachers decides the way to cure her apathy about class is to move her into Honors English, a development Suze finds both inspiring and distressing. When she's paired with straight-A student Amanda on a civics project, she finds herself caring about people's expectations like she never has before.

Suze Tamaki's life gets turned upside down when her mother moves back to town after a ten-year absence. Once Suze gets over her initial cynicism, she thinks it might be cool to get to know her mom...

Advance Praise

"A Month of Mondays is an intensely readable novel. It is full of fun, bright and natural dialogue. It has a lovable underdog narrator, someone to whom many readers will relate." - CM: Canadian Review of Materials
"A solid story that explores themes of family, abandonment, and belonging." - Kirkus Reviews

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EDITION	Other Format
ISBN	9781772600261
PRICE	$11.95 (USD)

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Kate S, Librarian

Suze is content to slide through life being average, but her life seems to be full of Mondays when her estranged mother comes back into her life, older sister Tracie is pressuring her to ignore her mother, and Suze is moved into Honors English for an assignment that she must ace to stay. Suze must decide what she wants from her family, her life, and her education.

Suze, her friends, and her family really resonated with me. They were realistically portrayed. I liked that even though Caroline returns to Suze's life that not everyone finds that easy transition. Each person has his/her own distinct emotional journey as they deal with complex life events.

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Deborah M, Librarian

A Month of Mondays is just the type of book that will do well, especially with my current grade 8's where I have a number of students who love heartfelt, well written books with a relate-able young teen struggling to fit in with family and school. Lately they have been reading books where the parent leaves and this will be a change for them because the parent, in this case mom, has returned. Sensitively and realistically handled.

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Anne Marie B, Educator

I absolutely LOVED this book.....The novel features a teen girl who is very smart but does not do well in school, nevertheless she LOVES to read. Her parents are divorced. Mom abandoned her when she was a little kid, so she now lives dad and her older sister. She regularly spends time with her paternal uncle and his wife.....As the book progresses there are changes in school and at home. "A Month of Mondays" very much a realistic novel, but it differs from the majority of teen lit in that the message is uplifting.