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180 • YOUNG ADULT HARDCOVER
Samara has nothing—until, through
poetry, Mr. Halbrook gives her everything.
Life Is Fine
ALLISON WHITTENBERG
LIFE IS NOT fine for Samara Tuttle, but she’s coping. Her overworked
mother is distant and cold, and her mother’s boyfriend, Q, attacks Samara
when she tries to clean up after his lazy, Funyun-loving self. Samara’s a
loner. But all of this changes when Mr. Halbrook arrives at school.
Samara’s English teacher takes ill, and in steps Mr. Jerome Halbrook, a suitwearing,
blue-eyed African American man who uses Marvell’s “To His Coy
Mistress” to inspire a spirited discussion about poetry, love, and truth. Soon
Samara is borrowing his collections of poetry, and then she can’t stop
thinking about Mr. Halbrook. Soon Samara is confiding in him about her
less-than-fine past, and dreaming of a different future. But when Mr.
Halbrook disappears—and it appears that he may not be all that he
seemed—will she be able to picture a future without him?
Allison Whittenberg lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her first novel, Sweet
Thang, was a New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age and a CCBC
Choice for 2007.