Love, Meg
by C. Leigh Purtill

    LOVE, MEG by C. Leigh Purtill
    Category:  Contemporary
    Age Recommendation:  Grades 9+
    Release Date:  7/5/07
    Publisher:  Razorbill
    Reviewed by:  Jeremey
    Rating:  5 Stars


    Teenager Meg Shanley and her thrity-year-old sister, Lucie, are moving from town to town, looking for a better life.
    Their parents are gone and Lucie has taken over the role as mother to Meg, although she has not done a very good
    job of it. Lucie tends to think more along the lines of what's best for herself instead of what's best for Meg. Meg
    must travel with Lucie because she has no other family to go to.

    When Lucie abandons her motherly role, Meg finds a new "mother," Jennifer Aniston. Meg writes all of her worries
    and woes in a letter - and Jennifer Aniston actually replies! The replies are motherly, filled with caring and solutions
    to her problems. Jen is more of a mother to Meg than Lucie is of a sister.

    One day, a strange man arrives at Meg and Lucie's Los Angeles house bringing a horrifying truth: Lucie is not exactly
    who she has been pretending to be.  The man, Lonnie, explains that Meg has a grandmother and even a father back
    in New York. No one knows anything about Meg's father, though, except that he doesn't even know that Meg
    exists.

    With Lucie's words of "If you go, don't come back" imprinted on her mind, Meg hops on a plane to New York to
    find a family she never knew existed - and what she finds is much more than she expected...

    If I could give LOVE, MEG a higher rating I would! This book totally captivated me and made me look forward to
    continuing my reading. LOVE, MEG is a book I will lend and recommend to other readers proudly. I cannot explain
    how amazing I thought this book was.