Fix

FIX by

Category: Contemporary

Age Recommendation: Grades 9+

Release Date: 10/3/06

Publisher: Simon Pulse

Reviewed by: Jocelyn Pearce

Rating: 4 Stars

Cameron and Allie are sisters. They used to look like it, too. Since Cameron turned fifteen, though, things

have

changed. Cameron and Allie inherited big noses from their father, but other than that, they both have the

good looks of

their mother, formerly a rather famous model. When Cameron turned fifteen, her life changed

completely. For the

better, she says.

How? She got a nose job. She turned from homely to gorgeous, moved to a new school, and now she's so

much more

popular and happy than before! Plastic surgery, Cameron feels, is a brilliant idea. It can fix

everything, right?

Now she is turning fifteen, and Allie's mother feels that she needs the same birthday present Cameron got: a

nose job.

It made Cameron a much happier person, and who wouldn't want that for their other daughter?

Problem is, nobody

asked Allie. Allie is already confident and happy, the way Cameron keeps saying plastic

surgery made her. There's one

thing she's not that Cameron is, though: gorgeous. But really, does Allie need

to be gorgeous? Or is that just what her

family has led her to believe?

Leslie Margolis's novel FIX is, aside from being an interesting story about a family, particularly two sisters, a

great look

at a rather controversial issue: plastic surgery, particularly for teenagers. It shows all sides of the

issue, from the

perspective of two teenage girls (who, admittedly, could be slightly more realistic characters at

times). It is a riveting

story, and Allie's and Cameron's very different motivations for making the decisions that

they do are quite believable.

FIX is certainly worth reading, particularly for anyone who is considering plastic

surgery for cosmetic reasons.

Fix
by Leslie Margolis