Melody Carlson, Notes From a Spinning Planet: Mexico
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Melody Carlson, Notes From a Spinning Planet: Mexico
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Notes From A Spinning Planet: Mexico Melody
Notes From a Spinning Planet: Mexico
Melody Carlson
Waterbrook, Aug 2007, $12.99
ISBN: 9781400071463
Aunt Sid decides that Washington is too cold in the winter so she and her teenage niece Maddie Chase leave for fun in the sun of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. However, both women are a bit disappointed with timeshare lodging, but agree not to let that spoil their vacation.
The two females turn euphoric when Sid's friend Ian and Maddie's unrequited love Ryan McIntire arrive from Ireland to join them. However also in town is Ryan's high school girlfriend Shelby Wagner, who may be an alcoholic, but he seems attracted to her; disappointing Maddie.
This is a different emotional spin from the previous two tales (see Papua New Guinea and Ireland), but still emphasizes a world filled with crisis. This time around the traveling female relatives run into the ugly side of excess middle class teen drinking that compares unfavorably against an impoverished soul trying to make it to what others take for granted. Although Melody Carlson hammers her message re the sins of drinking, young adult readers will appreciate the efforts of Maddie's new Mexican friend Francesca Tarrago struggling to leave poverty behind.
Harriet Klausner
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