Bound To Stay Bound

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 Author: Lord, Emma

 Publisher:  Wednesday Books (2022)

 Classification: Fiction
 Physical Description: 319 p.,  21 cm

 BTSB No: 587576 ISBN: 9781250237309
 Ages: 14-18 Grades: 9-12

 Subjects:
 Sisters -- Fiction
 Secrets -- Fiction
 Love -- Fiction
 Bildungsromans
 Camps -- Fiction

Price: $9.01

Summary:
When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it's mainly to give her friend and secret love interest, Leo, a nudge. After all, she knows who she is already. When the DNA service reveals Abby has a secret sister, shimmery-haired Instagram star Savannah Tully, it's hard to believe they're from the same planet, never mind the same parents - especially considering Savannah, queen of green smoothies, is only a year and a half older than Abby herself. Why was Savvy given up for adoption?

Accelerated Reader Information:
   Interest Level: UG
   Reading Level: 6.00
   Points: 14.0   Quiz: 516753



Full Text Reviews:

Booklist - 09/01/2020 Left to her own devices, white, probably Irish Abby wouldn't have done a DNA test. But Leo, one of her best friends, is adopted and curious about his Filipino roots. Things have been weird between Abby and Leo lately, so she's eager to take the test and support him. What she doesn't expect is to uncover a full-blooded sibling. Instagram-famous Savannah lives nearby and is only a year older than Abby, but the sisters are a mystery to each other—and they're determined to uncover their parents' secrets. All roads converge at Camp Reynolds, which Abby attends for SAT prep and where Savvy is a rule-following, workshop-leading junior counselor and Leo is a chef. Abby, who's struggled to focus on anything except photography ever since her beloved grandfather died, forges a tentative connection with Savvy even as her relationship with Leo unravels beneath her unspoken feelings. Lord (Tweet Cute, 2019) offers up rich characterization in her sophomore novel, which looks at love—romantic, familial, friend, self—in all its complicated forms. A bright summer tale of connection and self-discovery. - Copyright 2020 Booklist.

School Library Journal - 10/01/2020 Gr 7 Up—Family secrets and self-exploration are at the heart of this novel about Abby, a rising high school senior who finds surprising family news through a mail-order genetic test. After completing tests with her two best friends, Abby is contacted by Savvy, another teenager, who shares that Abby's parents are also Savannah's biological parents. The girls meet and decide to attend camp together to piece together their family history. Throughout the book, characters focus on finding their passions, and Abby and her best friend Leo fall in love. While the camp setting is unrealistic at times, Lord's descriptions of the Pacific Northwest are rich with sensory details. Abby and Leo's romance is tender and sweet, and full of realistic misunderstandings. The topic of adoption is a necessary one in YA literature, but this portrait leaves much to be desired. Abby and Savvy are not the only characters with an adoption story—Leo was adopted from the Philippines by a white family at birth, but his story is given short shrift; his emotions about it are only mentioned periodically and go largely unaddressed by Abby. Lord's juxtaposition of the two adoption stories centers the experience of the white adoptee over the transracial Filipino adoptee and creates an imbalance, rather than a diverse and nuanced story. VERDICT This book serves up intriguing family drama, beautiful sensory details, and a swoony romance, but leaves the reader unsatisfied. Recommended for secondary purchase only.—Susannah Goldstein, The Brearley Sch., New York City - Copyright 2020 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.

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