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Seventeen-year-old Grey Evans loves her job cleaning cages each morning at the pet shop before school. She loves the parakeets hanging upside down from her hair, the mice with pinto pony patches and especially a baby guinea pig who trills and purrs when she's nearby.
Even though she's convinced she'll forget to change after work one day and get to school with feathers in her hair and bird crap on her back.
And she loves her flirtatious exchange of notes with a fellow employee she's never met.
Grey doesn't love when her recently divorced mother has a panic attack that sends her to the emergency room. Or the pills her mom is prescribed, making her ricochet from controlling to raging to zombified in minutes.
How can Grey follow her mom's ever more isolating rules
and have a senior year with friends, college applications, and a cute co-worker named Will?
This Willamette High series novel about family, friendship, mental health, and dating will appeal to fans of authors Kathleen Glasgow and Erin Stewart.
About the author
Bebe Duncan is the author of Contemporary Young Adult novels in the Willamette High series, ALICE IN BLACK and PET SHOP GIRL, set in Portland, Oregon. Her realistic fiction focuses on social and family issues that teen girls face, from a first-person perspective, and on developing characters with challenges that resonate with readers. Long a writer of narrative nonfiction, she was reintroduced to YA by her daughter, and the sense of immediacy, the emotions portrayed, and the action in that genre inspired her to start noveling stat. She lives in Portland with her family and two humongous goldfish named Richard and Blanche. When she's not immersed in nouns and verbs or reading aloud as she edits, she revels in crime shows, YA fiction, WNBA games on TV, and walking a zillion miles a day. You can visit her online at www.bebeduncan.com and on Instagram.
