My Summer Vacation

Hannah R. Goodman
iUniverse (2006)
ISBN 9780595394302
Reviewed by Erin Keith (age 17) for Reader Views (5/07)

This book is full of inspiration. Its main character, Maddie Hickman, is just a regular teenager who faces many of the same problems we all go through or at least know about. From alcoholics to drug users and those with tormenting pasts, there are a lot of bad things in our lives. However, with the bad comes some good and this novel demonstrates both aspects.

Maddie goes to a camp for the summer that is filled with fun and good memories. She goes there to get away from the bad things that happened in her life over the last year. She promises to herself that at camp she will relax and live in the moment. After a tough breakup and her sister’s struggle with alcohol, she begins to enjoy her life. But when she gets to camp and finds that she is the splitting image of the new CIT’s dead girlfriend, and she meets a camper who suffers from Tourette syndrome with a family that is more dysfunctional than her own. Her summer is torn apart with drama and tragic moments, but in the end she learns to accept it in order to move on.

This book would be a good read for those who are going through tough times and I would recommend “My Summer Vacation” to those who want to learn how to pull through and be strong.

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