Book: The Black Sheep
Author: Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout
Pages: 352
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Reviewed by: Kat (Age 20)
Amazon.com Price: $14.47
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From Sandy Rideout and Yvonne Collins, the authors that brought us the Vivien Leigh Reid series, comes The Black Sheep; a hilarious teen novel about a girl who partakes in a new TV show. Black Sheep is something of a ‘Wife Swap’ show, only instead of swapping wives they’re swapping unhappy teenagers. Kendra is uprooted (somewhat against her will when it all comes down to it) from her New York home with her banker clone parents, to spend a couple of months with a modern day hippy family in California.

Of course there’s an adjustment period but Kendra soon finds herself relating to her new family. She adopts their cause of saving wild sea otters and even suffers through sleeping every night with the pet ferret; Manhattan. Then Kendra finds herself falling for Mitch, her ‘TV brother’ who hates any and everything about the Black Sheep how (and consequently her).

Having been raised on a thick binder of her parents rules (AKA: The Blah), can Kendra write and live by the rules of Black Sheepism and make the most of the situation or will her life end up as just another reality show fiasco?

I absolutely adored The Black Sheep and had a really hard time putting it down. The characters are loveable and fun, the situations bizarre, heartwarming and amusing and it all comes together to create an adventure you probably won’t quickly forget.

Kendra is a great heroine with her determination to make the most of the situation and take control when many of us would curl up and allow ourselves to be walked over. You can’t help but root for her, and cringe, and smile, and giggle and all of those things a great novel induces.

Check out The Black Sheep - you won’t regret it!