Student Book Review: Lock and Key

                                   Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen

It all begins with a young 17 year old girl named Ruby who gets abandoned by her mother before her birthday. Ruby lives in the filthy bug infested house in the hopes that her mother will return for her. She continues to live there while trying to not cause attention to the fact that she’s living in a house without parents since she’s underage. Soon enough a social worker finds out about how Ruby’s living and sends Ruby to live with her sister Cora, whom she hasn’t communicated with for 10 years. Cora now has a good life; she’s a lawyer married to an entrepreneur. Although Ruby is not allowed to go back to her old home she continues to wear her key around her neck just to remember her life before joining her sister’s. After getting used to being in the new environment she begins to lower her walls and starts making friends. Later she meets a boy named Nate, who is her neighbor. Ruby begins to like him despite how perfect Nate’s life seems. She later begins to unravel things that help her discover Nate’s life and hers aren’t as different as she thought.

            This book is such a good book and I enjoyed it very much. It’s heart-warming at times and you’re able to get into it and think about how you’d feel in Ruby’s situation and even in Nate’s situation. Overall it’s a book that I could stick to and finish reading in one day. I highly recommend you go to your nearest library DHS students because you’ll fall in love with the characters and hold sympathy for them just as I did.

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                                                                                         Reviewed by Brenda P.