More in that Morgan is trying to be stoic but motherfuck, she misses her friend, and what a waste that he died kind of a way.Īlso around the age of thirteen or so, I became obsessed with the books of Paul Zindel. It's really moving, but not in an overwrought way. I cannot count the times this book made me sob into my pillow. I loved imagining Jimmy dancing like Fred Astaire. It's full of their memories and it's got a great adult character in it, her aunt, a psychiatrist, who helps her. It's about an actress, Morgan, and her best friend, Jimmy, a dancer, who dies suddenly, and how she deals with losing him. And once she brought this one, and I was so excited that I started squirming in my seat, because I already had it and I felt like we were sharing this great secret discovery. I loved my ninth grade English teacher more than any English teacher before or since, and she would have the young adult librarian from the public library come in a few times a year with a big bag of books to recommend to us. I read Say Goodnight, Gracie approximately ten thousand times when I was in early high school. I know I read A Handful of Stars, about a high schooler with epilepsy, many times. I have a copy of Misty and Me, about a girl and her beagle, but I never owned any of the others. I also would check out the books of Barbara Girion over and over.

Upon rereading it, Ronnie and Rosey wasn't as magical to me as it was when I was little, but I still love it now just because of how much I loved it then. They're both out of print now, but I bought a used paperback of Secret Selves and a hardcover of Ronnie and Rosey from Bibliofind a few years ago.

I really liked Secret Selves and loved Ronnie and Rosey to a ridiculous degree. I checked them out of the library constantly and bought my own copies in the past couple of years. I read a couple of Judie Angell's books over and over. In my list of favorite books from childhood, there were so many that I left out. I wish i read as much now as i did when i was little.

What's Best For You by Judie Angell