Poe Holly's mother is off on another humanitarian rescue thing, that according to Poe makes her mother feel better and look better because the rest of the time she is such a jerk. Poe isn't going to miss her, she isn't around anyway. The problem is that Poe's mother is insisting that Poe leave her home, her band and everything that does mean something to her to go live in small town California with the father she has never known.
I thought, here we go again, poor misunderstood big city kid has to move to narrow minded small town and show them how they should really behave. Poe was thinking the same thing, nothing surprising there, but as Poe tackles the evil high school system that protects the privileged students who torment and bully the not-so-fortunate students, she discovers the bully within herself.
What really struck me was the way Poe powerfully articulates the way that the teachers and students collude to allow a bullying system to thrive in this high school. She just ZINGS her logic at the adults around her and I thought, "You go girl!"
Origianlly published 10/10/2011
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