![]() Last year she had started the first ever Beatles Fan Club in Rhode Island. It’s 1966 and middle schooler Trudy Mixer who had been on top of the world now seems to be fighting a losing battle. You don't have to know who the Beatles are to love this book, but I'd be willing to bet that this book will get the Fab Four some new fans. ![]() Her fellow fan club members have similar hopes. Trudy feels like she's losing her best friend (to popular girls) and her father (because she's not interesting enough) and so the quest to see the Beatles in concert and to meet Paul McCartney becomes a bit of magical thinking (if she can make this happen, her life will go back to what she wants it to be-especially where her dad is concerned because this really is the one thing they have in common). There are a lot of other things going on here. (Should it ever come up on Jeopardy!, John is my favorite Beatle.) This is middlegrade, though (everything else I've read by her has been adult fiction or nonfiction) and I know that's a different skill set.Ĭan I just say that this book is complete magic? I'm too young to have experienced the Beatles live, but this book was so evocative, I actually felt like I was there. This one is no surprise because everything I've read by Ann Hood has been completely amazing. I am currently enjoying quite a slew of great books. ![]()
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