Harley, Like a Person

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"Cat Bauer perfectly captures the substance and rhythms of teenage emotional life -- the heartache of a fight with a friend, the thrill of a new love, the frustration with adult interference, and the desperate need for self-knowledge. Good to the last drop."
---Janet Fitch, author of WHITE OLEANDER

"One the few real women/girls that I've seen. [Harley's] a real person."
---Walter Dean Myers, author of MONSTER, winner of Michael L. Printz Award

"Readers will be rooting for this sympathetic heroine."
---Publishers Weekly

"Cat Bauer's first novel offers a compelling read and a close-up look at adolescent emotional life, sure to appeal to readers grappling with their own."
---Horn Book

 "...a well-felt story with real appeal to Harley's peers."
---School Library Journal

"Bauer has created a vivid portrait of a teenage girl whose life is fraught with well-meaning deception; young-adult readers will sympathize with Harley's struggle. Recommended."
---Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

 "This book is not only a good read, but a great discussion book as well."
---The Children's Book Review Service

 "In a never-faltering voice, fourteen-year-old Harley Columba relates the events of her freshman year, including family secrets and the realities of being an artistic girl in a dysfunctional suburban family...This novel is a solid and enticing read."
---VOYA

"Because of the marvelously authentic-sounding first-person narrative, readers will love Harley and admire her gritty search for answers, worry over her wild behavior, and be happy at the resolution of this story."
---KLIATT

"Harley is at once brash and withdrawn, cocky and insecure, brave and fearful. Most of all, she is a living, breathing character who sets to work to solve her own problems."
---Voices from the Middle, National Coucil of Teachers of English

 "Like a Judy Blume for the new millenium, Cat Bauer perfectly captures the trauma of being a teenage girl in her debut novel..."
---New Words Bookstore

"HARLEY, LIKE A PERSON probably conveys as much wisdom about how to deal with teen life as any well-intentioned self-help book. It's a good read, too."
---Christian Perring, Ph.D. for Metapsychology

"Cat Bauer's powerful first novel of a defiant adolescent girl's search for identity, both creative and personal, will ring true for teenagers everywhere. She hits on all the hot topics: identity, family relationships, drug and alcohol abuse, school achievement, domestic and emotional violence, friendship, sex, and love."
---Emilie Coulter for Amazon.com

Awards and recognition for Harley, Like a Person

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