Crystal

Walter Dean Myers

Genres: YA Social Themes

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Sixteen-year-old Crystal knows she's blessed. She is drop-dead gorgeous and in the beginning stages of a glamorous career as a model in New York City. At first, modeling is exciting. But soon, her life becomes less and less about her, and more and more about her body. Crystal wonders if her new life is worth giving up everything -- her friends, her beliefs, and her self-respect.

Release date: October 6, 2009

Publisher: HarperCollins

Print pages: 208

Reader says this book is...: coming of age (1) entertaining story (1) family issues (1) realistic characters (1) socially conscious (1) thought-provoking (1)

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Nadine C. Keels

I first read this YA novel back in my adolescence. Although the latest edition I read this time may have more than one detail updated from the edition I read decades ago, I can still see why the story painted such an accessible picture for me back then. It says enough, and ultimately hits pretty hard, without spelling everything out.

on 3/29/21

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