Book In Review

        This book, written for the young reader is very entertaining.  It taps into the young middle school aged girl’s life.   The Wedding Planner’s Daughter was written by Coleen Murtagh Paratore with a real understanding of the constantly revolving emotional balance of a young girl who is on the move.

        The story is of a young lady who has moved around all of her life because of her mother’s fear of attachment to any man in a love relationship.  She lives by a very strict standard of rules of conduct at home, at school and in public.  Willa is her name.  She longs to have a father and a life that stays in one spot.

        Finally, Willa seems on the verge of having her wishes come true…till one act of secret benevolence undoes all of the progress her mother has made in allowing someone special to capture her attention.  Willa shows us how important it is to connect to others in our lives and how the power of love is what makes everything else in life bearable.  Growing up is hard to do when you are on the outside looking in.

          This book would make a wonderful birthday gift or a gift acknowledging the thought, “I know you are growing up” kind of gift to someone special in your life.

             This book was published by Scholastic Inc; copyrighted in 2005  by arrangement with Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.  Check out Scholastic here:  http://www.scholastic.com