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Reader reviewed by Ria

In How Not to Spend Your Senior Year, Jo OConner has been living her whole life running after her mother died. She had not stayed in one place long enough to make friends, until she moved to Seattle, Washington. Finally, at Beacon High, she met the guy of her dreams, Alex Crawford, and her best friend, Elaine. Things were going along great, as much as you could expect for being a new student, until her father springs another change to her life.

Suddenly, under the circumstances, Jo has to pretend she has died in a fatal car crash, along with her father. At her new location, Jo has assumed the name Claire Calloway and begins a new life at Royer High. At Royer High, Claire is bombarded with statements telling her how much she resembles Jo. She joins the newspaper, where she is given a great opportunity for her writing career. She is sent to Beacon High as an exchange student to investigate how the students there are coping with Jos death.

Through her journey, she discovers many things. Especially how hard the students are taking Jos death. But everything is done for a reason. Slowly, during her interviews with Alex and other students, and her secret rendezvous with Elaine, she begins to realize that things werent as she thought they were. She takes the opportunity to make things right along with discovering what love really is.

I thought that How Not To Spend Your Senior Year was a cute book. It was not a mushy high school romance that I was expecting. The twists and turns kept the story interesting. It will make you laugh and surprise you. Though it may not be the best book, this book is definitely worth reading.