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|title=An Urgent Message of Wowness

|author=Karen McCombie

|genre=Teens

|summary=Heather is fed up with her home life, but nothing can prepare her for the bombshell that's coming her way.

|buy=Maybe

|borrow=Yes

|pages=208

|publisher=Scholastic

|isbn=978-0439951142

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Heather is an ordinary kind of girl with an extraordinary kind of family. Now technically there's nothing too outrageous about her parents, big brother Jo-Jo or little sister Tallie, but when you're a teenager even the slightest thing can feel like a huge gulf between you, the freak, and them, the normal Normans. The blurb for this book says that Heather is bored with being the one who doesn't fit in in her perfect family. Then, one day a bombshell is dropped and life is never the same again. I had all sorts of fun thinking up what that bombshell could be - an illegitimate love child, a move half way across the world, at the very least a bit of anorexia or a teen pregnancy. But no, the bombshell is something much more mundane and ordinary and disappointed me a bit, because what happens is something that happens in loads of books, and in real life. That's not to say it shouldn't be written about, but it's hardly the bombshell that it's made out to be.

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