Kat, 16, is in high school and is known as an outsider. She works at her mom's midwifery, is an artist, and trains for a women's triathlon. Her classmates call her Yoga Girl because she sometimes does yoga in the hallway. She hangs out with her friend Christy known as Hat Girl because of her insane hat collection. She has a secret crush on a popular guy named Manny Cruz since the seventh grade. Her mother, Abra, called her to assist her with a birth (Kat had always wanted to witness a birth; none of the people who were actually supposed to do it were at hand.) Kat didn't do very well with assisting, so she leaves her job at the midwifery. Shortly after telling her mom she quit, Abra gave her two notebooks. One was her mother's old notebook and one was blank and Kat turned it into a book of facts of her life. These Facts of Life helped her keep her morals and traditional values straight.
I really liked this book because of its different twist with a normal theme. It has a constant theme that most books have: girl likes boy, boy and girl have a secret relationship, girl gets hurt, girl organizes her life and is better with out him. Some things that were different about the book though was Christy's hat collection and the wisdom on natural born child birth. These small aspects made the book more fun to read and it got harder and harder to put down.
Reviewer Age:13
Reviewer City, State and Country: Norristown, Pennsylvania USA
Rating: 9
Content rating: 1
