Everything Beautiful

✍ Scribed by Howell, Simmone

• Book ID: 109074993
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 111 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781599900421

✦ Synopsis

Raucous and sexy, this Australian novel about an atheist teen is not for everyone; but even some religious readers will want to read it for the hilarious, honest, first-person narrative of Riley, 16, who discovers that there is no Utopia anywhere. Furious that her dad and stepmom force her to go to Christian camp, she works hard to be a plague on all the Bible-based activities. Her world is about being fat and having a serious guy habit and coping with her grief for her dead mom. At church camp, she can’t wait to have sex with a gorgeous counselor, but she refuses him when he won’t wear a condom. She does bond with fellow camper Dylan, recently disabled (though he hates that word), and together they plan a secret vision quest into the nearby desert. More than that bumbling journey, what will hold readers is the irreverent commentary on the camp bullies and, even more, Riley’s discovery that she, and they, are not as bad as she thought.