Review: Maggie Come Lately - Michelle Buckman

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Are you on the lookout for a new author ? Love reading Edgy Teen Fiction ?

Review: Maggie Come Lately - Book #1 The Pathway Collection - Michelle Buckman -April 2007
For Maggie, life has not been easy as she has always had to play the mother role as when she was four years old, her mother committed suicide. Now Maggie is celebrating her sixteenth birthday and it seems everyone has forgotten . All Maggie ever wants is to be popular like one of the cheerleaders at school - Sue. As Sue's boyfriend Wes is her crush. So on her birthday, Maggie wishes that life was easy and she could for once be popular. But being popular isn't all it is cracked up to be as Maggie will realise when she's walking home one day and saves Sue from death. It seems that there is a lot of nasty stuff going on in Maggie's neighbourhood .What will happen though, when Maggie's dad brings home a new girlfriend and Maggie feels pushed out, will her being lonely lead in her to the wrong pair of arms and Maggie end up like Sue ? 
Find out in Maggie Come Lately , this book has a christian perspective to it but if you are looking for a clean teen book , then this is not the one for you as it deals with issues of suicide and rape.


 
 

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