Harley Like a Person

By Cat Bauer

Harley is fourteen and she is positive she is adopted. Her parents assure her she isn't but they get all weird and angry when she wants to see her birth certificate. Plus it isn't exactly a happy home and the strain and secrecy are starting to affect Harley. Soon her grades are slipping and she finds herself in trouble at school, which has never happened before.
But Harley decides she will find out for herself what her parents refuse to tell her. And before she is through she will have lost her best friend but gained a half-sister, lost one boyfriend and gained another and discovered that she has what it takes, not only in tracking down the truth, but revealing her talent as an artist.

This was an OK story. Harley suffers through the usual teenage rebellion and comes out stronger and wiser. I thought her parents reticence just a little unreal. I also didn't find the parents themselves to be very believable. They were more like cardboard cutouts than real people. This story just didn't appeal too me much.

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