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The Education of Ivy Blake by Ellen Airgood

aklibrarychick's review against another edition

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5.0

I loved this companion book to Prairie Evers where Prairie's best friend, Ivy Blake, stars in her own story. Ivy's pride and independence are on full display as she embraces a new hobby with movie-making, but being back with her volatile and violent mother is a struggle. She is too ashamed to tell the Evers family that she needs help and doesn't want to bother them when they are expecting a new baby. Eventually, she ends up in foster care, and between her understanding foster mother, a caring teacher, and the love of friends both old and new, Ivy is bound to land on her feet.

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2.0

Prairie Evers was such a fantastic read that when I saw this I couldn't wait to read it!!
And this book was absolutely everything that Prairie Evers was not!
Namely, boring, plodding, predictable and run of the mill.
It could have been any book done as a: teen has a family issue, feels sad, finds a way to cope, feels better - sort of book.
I'm not sure how the book never felt wet as it was drippy through and through.
So disappointed.
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