#julie buxbaum
McNally Jackson is delighted to be hosting @juliebuxbaum tomorrow for a celebration of her new novel Tell Me Three Things, discussed below by our Teen Reviewer, Lilian.
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There are many challenges you have to face when you enter a new school, especially when it comes to High School. Imagine being forced to transfer in the middle of your school years, leaving all your friends and home, then flying off to a new land. Julie Buxbaum seems to be able to make that hardship become reality in Tell Me Three Things. She mixes loss with love and more genres in her new story.
Jessie Holmes is a sixteen year old nothing when she enters her new high school in Los Angeles, California only two years after her mother’s death. Everything seems to go wrong, her stepmother’s house is nothing like her home in Chicago. Her best friend is left behind, and she is forced into a new life with a stranger that her father met online. That is, until she receives an email from an anonymous who goes by Somebody Nobody (SN). Claiming to know her without her knowing him, SN and Jessie form an online friendship that suddenly makes her desperate to meet this person. While Jessie goes through her junior year creating new friendships, facing bullies, and eventually developing a crush, SN seems to become a big part of her newly formed life, even if it is only on I Messages on her phone. Jessie spends her school months asking the same question over and over again. Who is Somebody Nobody?
Jessie seems to be like many other simple teenage girls. Trying to get passed High School so they can finally leave to go to College. But there will be many obstacles along the way that eventually will be hard to overcome. Though there will always be someone that will have your back, someone that you could go to for advice. If not someone, then maybe something. “What if the person you need the most is someone you never met.” There can be so many people who are willing to help you go through your tough times, but it is important to find the people you can trust entirely to share your deepest secrets. And maybe, you can find friends in the most odd way, just like Jessie and SN.
Julie Buxbaum writes Tell Me Three Things in the most detailed way possible, making me flip through the pages without stopping. She shares all the different emotions that can be felt during High School and explains the true meaning of friendship. This would definitely be a book for readers who love tragedy and friendship/ romance. Just like that, you’ll be reading so much that you’d be done in a day. -Lilian R., Age 14
