Author Description

It's senior year and everything is supposed to be different. It's the year of 'lasts': the last Homecoming game, the last dance, including prom, the last mind-numbing, soul-crushing high school midterm and final, and the last of curfews and rules and parents dictating your every step. It's a year full of hope and promise, skip-days to the beach, senior week and blow off classes, and an end to childhood and the beginning of independence, for most. But for Katie Sommer, it's just more of the same and without an end in sight. Katie's been bullied since the beginning of fifth grade, after that terrible hack job of a hair cut her mother had given her. She'd been on the path to something then, but now she's on a path to nowhere. No friends, well, except for Caleb; no more supporting Grandmother, she passed away; Mom's never around and Dad left years ago; and now an obsessive infatuation with her beautiful new neighbor who she knows and resigns will never look at her the way she desires most. But armed with an overactive imagination that won't quit (she WILL make you laugh )and that is oftentimes her biggest means of coping and getting through it all, Caleb who always has a box of pizza and a movie rental, an unquenchable desire for more despite the overwhelming odds against her, including the bullying trio Blondie, Carrot Top and Stretch, as Katie calls them, and the new girl, Jenn, who aspires for Katie when Katie can't see past her own hair, senior year might just be more than Katie hopes for, dare she even dream, art school?, if she can only keep the bullies at bay.