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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2017 | Young Adult
Gr 9 Up—A coming-of-age story about love, life, and creating one's own expectations. Briggs Henry is ambitious and goal-oriented and always meets his family's high standards. He graduated as one of the top students in his high school; he was president of his class and the captain of the baseball team. In the fall, Briggs will attend Michigan State University. The summer before he leaves for college, the teen takes a job as a live-in assistant for an eccentric elderly woman who ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2018
Ambitious Briggs Henry is spending the summer before college on Lake Michigan, working for an eccentric, elderly Serbian woman w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More


