Review: Teen Drama in Drama Class
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2013
This book is a must read for teens and will be enjoyable for adults as well.  Two high school seniors are taking drama class.  Camille takes it because her councilor pushed her into it, Jayden because it is his dream.  Both kids are from opposite sides of the financial spectrum, both have different dreams for their future, but they both find they have much in common.  You see conclusions being jumped to without all the facts, bullies, and senior stress.  There is applying to colleges, high school couples with expectations that they will apply and go to the same colleges, developing jealousy and childhood grudges that finally come to the surface.This book would be more relevant to today's high school kids than some of the required reading they have now.  It could spark discussions on understanding that what they see in each other today may not be so attractive tomorrow, that what they believe another person's story is- may not be what that person is actually going through, that what they assumed was the reason for something happening was not the actual story behind it, that thinking you are better than others and acting badly toward them is unbecoming- even for the prettiest of girls, and how a small gesture that you barely think about can be brought back tenfold.  This book does all of this without being preachy- by just showing believable interaction between a handful of high school students.