Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

I started read Last Song over Thanksgiving break because Mrs. Althoff recommended it to me. It's about a teenage girl, Ronnie, who have been living with her mom and younger brother in New York City. Ronnie is an amazing piano player, but for some reason has quit playing. The book hasn't mentioned why yet. Ronnie's parents are divorced and at the beginning of the book, Ronnie and her brother are on their way to the east coast to spend the summer with their dad, who Ronnie hasn't spoken to in 3 years. Her dad is also an accomplished piano player, so I'm thinking something happened with their relationship that made her not talk to her dad for so long and to quit playing the piano.

Ronnie first meets these group of trouble-maker kids. Marcus is kind-of creepy and likes Ronnie, but she doesn't like him at all. Marcus's girlfriend, Blaze, is jealous and sets Ronnie up to make it look like Ronnie stole some cd's from a store. So, now, Ronnie is facing legal charges.

In the meantime, she's met Will, who she is starting to really like. I think this book is mainly directed at teenage audiences, but obviously I'm reading and Mrs. Althoff did too, so adults will like it too. Sparks wrote The Notebook and A Walk to Remember, both books that were made into well-known movies.

It's a very easy to read book, and it's nice to have something like to read before I go to bed, just to take my mind off stressful things...like school!