Beige
by Cecil Castellucci
by Cecil Castellucci
BEIGE by Cecil Castellucci
Category: Contemporary
Age Recommendation: Grades 9+
Release Date: 5/8/07
Publisher: Candlewick
Reviewed by: Jocelyn Pearce
Rating: 5 Stars
When Katy is shipped off to Los Angeles to live with her father for the summer, she is less than pleased. Why couldn't she
stay in Canada, or go with her sensible mother on her trip? After all, her father is Beau Ratner, the aging punk rocker
known by his fans as "The Rat."
Katy is not a punk rock kind of girl. She's not even a music kind of girl. Katy's a good girl. Even if that means keeping it all
inside. Even if that means hating everything to do with music--everything that, all those years ago, made her mother run off,
do drugs, sleep with "The Rat," and get pregnant with Katy.
BEIGE is a fantastic novel, and Cecil Castellucci is a very talented writer. Her characters are wonderfully real and fresh.
Her story is absorbing enough to be read all in one sitting (so start this one on an empty Saturday!). BEIGE is an honest,
real, intelligent, and very well-written book for music lovers and those of us who can't tell the difference between the great
and the popular alike!
It's a good music story, sure, but, more than that, it's a wonderful and amazingly good life story. BEIGE is one of my top
picks for 2007 so far, and I'm definitely moving Cecil Castellucci's other two teen novels (BOY PROOF and THE
QUEEN OF COOL) up on my to-read list.
Category: Contemporary
Age Recommendation: Grades 9+
Release Date: 5/8/07
Publisher: Candlewick
Reviewed by: Jocelyn Pearce
Rating: 5 Stars
When Katy is shipped off to Los Angeles to live with her father for the summer, she is less than pleased. Why couldn't she
stay in Canada, or go with her sensible mother on her trip? After all, her father is Beau Ratner, the aging punk rocker
known by his fans as "The Rat."
Katy is not a punk rock kind of girl. She's not even a music kind of girl. Katy's a good girl. Even if that means keeping it all
inside. Even if that means hating everything to do with music--everything that, all those years ago, made her mother run off,
do drugs, sleep with "The Rat," and get pregnant with Katy.
BEIGE is a fantastic novel, and Cecil Castellucci is a very talented writer. Her characters are wonderfully real and fresh.
Her story is absorbing enough to be read all in one sitting (so start this one on an empty Saturday!). BEIGE is an honest,
real, intelligent, and very well-written book for music lovers and those of us who can't tell the difference between the great
and the popular alike!
It's a good music story, sure, but, more than that, it's a wonderful and amazingly good life story. BEIGE is one of my top
picks for 2007 so far, and I'm definitely moving Cecil Castellucci's other two teen novels (BOY PROOF and THE
QUEEN OF COOL) up on my to-read list.
