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Rosie and Skate
by Beth Ann Bauman
I loved this story of two high school-aged sisters in a New Jersey beach town over the winter. Bauman gets the setting and mood just right -- smooching boys amidst the dunes, biking down cold, windy streets, hanging out in nearly vacant arcades. The arc of the sisters' stories is entirely plausible, and wholly diverting. The only thing that kept me from falling fully into the world of "Rosie and Skate" was an inconsistent series of choices Bauman made about using Jersey Shore place names. They read the Asbury Park Press and one has a boyfriend at Rutgers -- totally legit. But the Ocean Grove Correctional Center? The town exists, but it's not inland and it certainly doesn't host a jail. These small inconsistencies pulled me out of an otherwise lovely, bittersweet YA novel that would appeal to plenty of adults.