Fact of Life #31

By Denise Vega

FACT OF LIFE #48: Kat’s mom is No-Last-Name Abra, the best home-birth midwife in Colorado. But with her own daughter, Abra can’t stop teaching and lecturing long enough to be a mom.

Fact of Life #21: Kat’s had a crush on Manny Cruz since seventh grade. Now Manny is showing interest , but could he seriously be into Weird Yoga Girl Kat Flynn?

Fact of Life #14: Gorgeous Libby Giles has always intimidated Kat. But lately there’s something different about Libby, and it’s about to bring her crashing into Kat’s Life. . . .

Hilarious and poignant, this is the story of one girl’s sometimes funny, sometimes painful path to self-acceptance and to finding her place in the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: May 13, 2008
• ISBN: 9780375849572

Reviews for Fact of Life #31

[axelledarkleigh · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

amazing tale of teen drama, and teenage love fails. me, being a high school student myself, completly understood some of the problems in this book, and the main character strangly reminded me of one of my own friends........ :X

[francescadefreitas · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I really enjoyed this one. Kat's relationship with her midwife mother is based more on information speeches tan affection. When she's not being called a weirdo at school, she's invisible. So when she messes up at a delivery, and the popular kids start noticing her at school Kat has to re-evaluate her relationships. I liked the cast of highschool characters in this, the adults didn't make much of an impression.

[abbylibrarian_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Kat is in high school, works at her mom's midwife business, and has had a huge crush on Manny Cruz since middle school. As the year goes on, she starts writing in a journal, recording her "Facts of Life". Her mom tries to control her life more than Kat would like and Manny actually seems interested, but everything turns out to be more complicated than Kat thought it would. It was a fine read from an interesting perspective, but not particularly memorable.

[librarylhr · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book was a fun new variation on an old theme: outsider girl crushes on popular guy, then they have a "secret" relationship in which she ends up getting hurt, but each ultimately comes to a better understanding of themselves and high-school's various social circles. Even so, I really liked Kat and all of the characters were developed well enough that you gained some understanding of all sides. Some of my favorite elements: Kat's relationship with her sister; Christy's fun hat collection; the many insights on natural childbirth; how the book is cleverly sectioned into trimesters; the e-mails and text messages that help move the plot forward. It was a fun and quick read.