When the book begins, Audrey is plotting to get back to public school, a prospect that horrifies her sister. Audrey is sent to Peak, an alternative school that her parents and doctors feel is better suited to handle her special needs. Clare goes to public school, where she is part of a mean-girl posse of popular kids but at risk of losing her prominence as she struggles to deal with her grief. His absence has pushed the two down different paths and away from each other. This has been exacerbated by the death of their beloved older brother, killed in a car accident. Once inseparable, the girls have drifted apart. By the time we meet 14-year-old fraternal twins Clare and Audrey, their relationship is in tatters. The book, distributed in Canada by Vancouver’s Raincoast Books, takes place in Calgary circa 2013. I liked the idea of writing a young adult (novel) that teens can relate to.” Under Shifting Stars book cover jpg Andrews books and I shouldn’t have been reading them when I was 15. “In some ways that’s heavier, because you come across even heavier topics. “I remember being a teenager and I felt like the stories that were aimed at my age were really young so I ended up reading up,” says Latos. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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