Beige
by Cecil Castellucci

    BEIGE by Cecil Castellucci
    Category:  Contemporary
    Age Recommendation:  Grades 9+
    Release Date:  5/8/07
    Publisher:  Candlewick
    Reviewed by:  Jocelyn Pearce
    Rating:  5 Stars


    When Katy is shipped off to Los Angeles to live with her father for the summer, she is less than pleased. Why
    couldn't she stay in Canada, or go with her sensible mother on her trip? After all, her father is Beau Ratner, the aging
    punk rocker known by his fans as "The Rat."

    Katy is not a punk rock kind of girl. She's not even a music kind of girl. Katy's a good girl. Even if that means
    keeping it all inside. Even if that means hating everything to do with music--everything that, all those years ago, made
    her mother run off, do drugs, sleep with "The Rat," and get pregnant with Katy.

    BEIGE is a fantastic novel, and Cecil Castellucci is a very talented writer. Her characters are wonderfully real and
    fresh. Her story is absorbing enough to be read all in one sitting (so start this one on an empty Saturday!). BEIGE is
    an honest, real, intelligent, and very well-written book for music lovers and those of us who can't tell the difference
    between the great and the popular alike!

    It's a good music story, sure, but, more than that, it's a wonderful and amazingly good life story. BEIGE is one of my
    top picks for 2007 so far, and I'm definitely moving Cecil Castellucci's other two teen novels (BOY PROOF and
    THE QUEEN OF COOL) up on my to-read list.