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One More Step (Orca Soundings)

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One More Step is about a boy named Julian. His family is going through a lot of problems, and he is stuck in the middle of it. He doesnt know his real dad either. The person that he considers his dad and himself always get into fights. He rarely gets along with anybody in his family except his mom, and Julian is always getting in trouble. I didnt really care for this book, because the plot is difficult to understand, and everything seems to be cluttered all together. I cant really recommend this book to you because I dont really like it. There might be better book out there.

Fourteen-years-old Julian Hall is the narrator of this novella, about a boy trying to come to terms with his divorced parents and his mother's growing relationship with Jean-Paul, a charming man from Quebec. The novella lurches about in an episodic manner without developing any of the scenes with satisfaction. Consequently, the struggles Julian faces -- his blowup with his alcoholic father, the death of his grandfather, his mother's marraige to Jean-Paul -- lack emotional pull. Fitch successfully captures the viewpoint of a 14-year-old boy and creates a likable enough narrator, but this novella feels more like a cliff notes than a fully realized story.

Mark Kirby