The Year My Sister Got Lucky (Jill Frost)

The Year My Sister Got Lucky By: Aimee Friedman, Scholastic In., 370 pages
I found this book at Boarders.
Summary: This is a story about two sisters who live in Manhattan and get uprooted to the rural city of Fir Lake. Katie(Katya) always wants her mom to treat her like she treats her older sister Michaela, but that changes when Katie leans what it's been like for her sister. Michaela settles into Fir Lake wonderfully, making new friends, dating the Quarter back, and she even becomes homecoming Queen, where in the mix of all that she forgets about her sister. Katie on the other hand doesn't settle in to well. She just wants her old life back and nothing to do with Fir Lake. Their mother was a ballerina when she was younger which is why Michaela and Katie are both into ballet, Michaela already having an acceptance into Julliard. Soon Katie learns that Michaela doesn't want to go to a college for dance, but to live on campus, and take actual college courses. This book is mainly about the ups and downs of friendship, sisterhood, and change.
The audience for this book is mainly for teenage girls becuase it deals with boys, friends, dance, moving to a new town, and sisterhood.
The style of this book is that everything is direct. She tells you flat out what is going on, what things look like and what the characters are like. She uses the language that teenagers use when Michaela and Katie talk, she makes it very real. She is descriptive so you can picture everything in your mind. "It's a dark gray and spindly, with a black roof that's pointed like a witch's hat and big windows that yawn like mouths. There's a front porch, a red mailbox, and a small patch of grass in front. Ivy creeps up around the windows, like it's eating the house alive. Talk about omens- I knew there was a reason 13 is an unlucky number." Page 64
Quote # One: " That was one way of looking at it," I say, amazed once again at the differences between my sister and me. I didn't want a single thing to change. But I suppose stopping change is like trying to stop the leaves from falling every autumn." Page 344. This quote struck me because it really shows that you can't change, change. Change will always happen just like the leaves always falling. Also the way she interpreted how the you can't stop the leaves from falling and that you can't change, change was a good analogy.
Quote # Two: "And you'll always be my sister," Michaela goes on. "But.. you're not my friend." I've never been stabbed, but I'm guessing this is how it feels. Page 217. This quote struck me because when you are close to a sibling and they always tell you everything, and then say you aren't friends, that you're just siblings, it probably hurts. The relationship between siblings is always a greater bond than relationships between friends. Just because you are siblings and not friends, doesn't mean they won't always be there for you.
Quote # Three: It feels weird to be admitting these truths and secrets, letting them all spill out. "And i thought you were a city snob," Autumn says in the same cheerful, plain manner. "Wearing all back on the first day of school... acting like you were too good to walk to Social Studies with me..." Page 207. This quote struck me because it shows how everybody judges everyone when they don't even know them. Katie judged Autumn, and Autumn judged Kate, and it turns out that everything they thought was wrong. You should try not to judge people before you even have a chance on meeting them.
I related to this book mainly becuase I have two older sisters. I can relate to the part where Michaela tells Katie they they are sisters and not friends becuase i don't consider my sisters my friends. I consider them my sisters and only my sisters. I think that way becuase i know my friends aren't always there for me, but my sisters and are they are always open to listen. Mainly this whole book spoke to me because there were so many things you can learn from it. There was so much change going on in this book and it actually can help you on what to do and what not to do when moving.