Review: Interesting Young Adult read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 26, 2011
Borrowing ABBY GRACE, an ARC of a short story by Kelly Green is  most unusual and should provide some interesting and thought-provoking reading for young adults.The story begins with a young woman awakening in the back of a van. She realizes she has been abducted, manages to bite through her bindings and valiantly jumps out of the vehicle while it slowly winds through a suburban neighborhood. Helpful neighbors take her to a home and father she does not recognize and here she discovers that a brother also had been kidnapped. Her confusion is simultaneously lessened and increased when she is informed, by a person only she can see, that she is here with a mission to provide the answer for a problem that Brooke, the real person, cannot solve. Further pressure builds when again the wraith informs her that there is little time to complete the mission. Additional detail would spoil the story.In summary, I must admit that I read very few young adult books. However, this tale appears to be well plotted, presented and verbalized and I believe the author demonstrates an agile mind that shows much promise for future endeavors as well. Reviewed by John H. Manhold, award winning fiction/non-fiction author