For Keeps, Natasha Friend
For Keeps, Natasha Friend
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For Keeps

Author: Natasha Friend

Narrator: Lauren Weisman

Unabridged: 6 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/06/2010

Synopsis

For sixteen years, Josie Gardner and her mom, Kate, have been a team. It's been the Gardner Girls against the world, and that's how Josie likes it. Until one day, they find out that Paul Tucci, Kate's high school boyfriend-the father Josie has never met-is back in town. Josie's mom suddenly turns back into the heartbroken teenager she was when Paul moved away. Meanwhile, Josie's on the verge of having her first real boyfriend. And when Josie learns some surprising truths about Paul Tucci and the past, she begins questioning what she thought she knew, and finds out what happens when a girl gets the guy she always wanted and the dad she never knew she needed.

About The Author

Natasha Friend was born to an English professor father and a poet/actress mother. She was raised in a house without a television. At the time, she thought this was the worst form of child abuse. Now, she understands the method to her parents’ madness: they wanted her to be a reader. Spending most of her childhood at the Hamilton Public Library, Natasha found her mecca, the young-adult section, and her hero, Judy Blume. She, too, wanted to write stories about girls who felt alone. Girls whose parents were screw-ups. Girls with spunk and spirit and resolve.Natasha began dictating stories to her father, who typed them up on his 1930’s Remington typewriter. Most involved rainbows, unicorns, and poor orphan girls discovering treasure. She knew she was supposed to be a writer in seventh grade, when a sweet boy gave her a love poem and she felt compelled to correct it for syntax and rhyme scheme. Today, Natasha is the award-winning author of Perfect, Lush, Bounce, For Keeps, and My Life in Black and White. When she isn’t writing, she is building forts and making chocolate-chip pancakes. Natasha lives on the Connecticut shoreline with her husband, three children, and dog, Beckett.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrea on March 06, 2010

Okay, so after reading this book, for some reason, I keep picturing the Gilmore Girl chacters in my head. Especially Paul Tucci--I keep seeing him as Christopher from the TV shower. I see a lot of similarities in the way that the mother-daughter bond is in both the tv show and the book.** This was a......more

Goodreads review by PinkAmy loves books, cats and naps on June 17, 2019

Sixteen-year-old Josie and her thirty-two year-old single mom Kate have always been on their own, both feeling the abandonment of Kate’s high school boyfriend Paul. Kate’s failure to move on makes Josie mistrust boys. Then Josie’s paternal grandfather begins coming to the coffee shop where she works......more

Goodreads review by Jeni on November 01, 2011

Imagine if everything you thought you knew about the parent you’ve never met turned out not to be true. In Natasha Friend’s young adult novel ‘For Keeps,’ 16-year-old Josie is just about to enter her junior year of high school when the grandparents she’s never met—the parents of the man whom Josie’s......more

Goodreads review by Leslie on April 20, 2010

I don't love the reality fiction so much unless it's true, and even then I prefer history. Modern, everyday life for teens is too depressing. I mean, the loving, monogamous, moral, responsible role models in this story were gay. Which, nice for kids who have two dads, but . . . It did make me think,......more

Goodreads review by Susane on April 13, 2010

A sweet, touching read that zigs when you expect it to zag.......more

Quotes

Fast-paced and full of little twists, Josie+s story is a sweet and savvy coming-of-age tale. Hopeful and endearing." -Kirkus

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