Girl, Unframed (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781534426979)

A teen girl's summer with her mother turns sinister in this gripping thriller about the insidious dangers of unwanted attention, from Printz Honor medal-winning and National Book Award finalist author Deb Caletti--perfect for fans of Courtney Summers's Sadie.

Sydney Reilly has a bad feeling about going home to San Francisco before she even gets on the plane. How could she not? Her mother is Lila Shore--the Lila Shore--a film star who prizes her beauty and male attention above all else...certainly above her daughter.

But Sydney's worries multiply when she discovers that Lila is involved with the dangerous Jake, an art dealer with shady connections. Jake loves all beautiful objects, and Sydney can feel his eyes on her whenever he's around. And he's not the only one. Sydney is starting to attract attention--good and bad--wherever she goes: from sweet, handsome Nicco Ricci, from the unsettling construction worker next door, and even from Lila. Behaviors that once seemed like misunderstandings begin to feel like threats as the summer grows longer and hotter.

It's unnerving, how beauty is complicated, and objects have histories, and you can be looked at without ever being seen. But real danger, crimes of passion, the kind of stuff where someone gets killed--it only mostly happens in the movies, Sydney is sure. Until the night something life-changing happens on the stairs that lead to the beach. A thrilling night that goes suddenly very wrong. When loyalties are called into question. And when Sydney learns a terrible truth: beautiful objects can break.

Author: Deb Caletti
ISBN-10: 1534426973
ISBN-13: 9781534426979
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 06/23/2020
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.20d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 510006 / Girl, Unframed


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/2020 pg. 49
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2020
Publishers Weekly 05/04/2020
School Library Journal 06/01/2020 pg. 70
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2020 - Recommended - Readable
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 06/01/2020 - Book Of Special Distinction
Shelf Awareness 06/23/2020
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2020 pg. 84
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2020 - Superior,Well Above Average