After a surprise kiss a few weeks prior, their friendship isn’t yet back to normal, but she’s trying to make it so. Cook.Įmma is out one night with her best friend’s boyfriend, Colin, whom she’s known since early early childhood. * I mistakenly placed the town in Illinois, and the error was totally mine. She thinks of it as her mom’s hometown, not her own, and is repulsed by the eagerness with which her mom and her friends and all the adults in her life embrace the town’s social culture, which, to Emma, involves being way to involved in everyone else’s business, and being as limited of mind as possible.
Her goal is a track scholarship to Northwestern, and she’s not secret about her goals, or her intense dislike of every aspect of her town. Indiana* town named Wheaton, which is situated exactly in the middle of rural nowhere. More on that in a moment.Įmma is the only daughter of a single mom in a small However, it’s not a romance, so I’m not evaluating it as such.
What Would Emma Do is a smart, unblinking mixture of “The Crucible” meets “Saved,” with one of the most memorable YA narrators I’ve met in awhile. Publication Info: Simon Pulse December 2008
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