chickypoo81 's review for:

The 12 Dares of Christa by Marissa Burt

4.0

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Cute middle grade book about a 13 year old girl who is grudgingly spending Christmas in Europe with her newly divorced mom, and missing her dad and friends back home, and who learns that just because life has changed doesn't mean it has to be terrible. I found it to be very thoughtful about how it approached Christa's anxiety and fairly realistic in how a young teen might react to the circumstances she found herself in. While I would give it 3 stars personally, my 11 year old daughter really enjoyed it so I'm bumping it up to 4 since she is much more the target audience!