Brooklyn's life is full of bad decisions. For starters, she is better known as "Baby Brooklyn", the girl who fell down a well when she was two. For over 50 hours the nation watched as she waited in the abandoned mine shaft to be rescued. Now, a teenage Brooklyn, or Brooks, sits in a police station hearing things like "arson", "trespassing" and "underage drinking".
Sentenced to community service for her crimes, Brooklyn is also is grounded for life, and has little to look forward to other than mandatory community service, and helping rebuilding the model home she burnt down. Her best friend was supposed to be by her side (it was her idea after all), but Shayne has decided to ditch her, being arrested and everything really isn't the image Shayne wants to project. After Brooklyn gets caught smoking outside the school, thanks to a new boy, she is done making decisions. Now all of her decisions will be made by readers of her blog, My Life Undecided. What book should she read for English? Ask her readers. Should she try out for rugby? Put it on the Blog.
Brooklyn will do what her readers tell her, because she has learned that she is no good at figuring things out for herself.
Brooklyn is alone in her blogging adventures, but new friends come into her "real" life. New student Hunter seems to like her, even if he is responsible for her detention. Then there is the boy who saved her from choking on melon in the cafeteria, the kind-of-cute Brian. Old activities such as keeping up with celebrity gossip and keeping up her appearance have taken a back seat to her court mandated community service, school work and debate team.
My Life Undecided is a breezy summer read that will keep you reading. Will Brooklyn follow the advice of her blog readers, or will she make her own choices? You get to laugh, as Brooklyn tries to figure out a lot of things, from what to read for class to which boy she should hang out with. Brooklyn is a good kid at heart, who sometimes just makes bad choices. Similar to Jordan Sonnenblick's Notes From the Midnight Driver, with a little bit of Sarah Mlynowski's Gimme A Call. Jessica Brody perfectly depicts a girl looking for answers, unsure of how to make good decisions, and who wants to do right.
I'll see you @ the library!
Katie (Now reading Rotters by Daniel Kraus)