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.
