The Small Crimes of Tiffany Templeton

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. I want Tiffany as one of my new friends. Can someone make that happen? --------------- Full review can be found here: [URL not allowed] Let’s be honest with each other for just one moment. The first thing that drew me to this book was t......more

I had hoped for a little more with this book, however, I was pleased. Tiffany spies on people and so having spied she is a keeper of secrets. At the start of the story, Tiffany is being sent home from detention school. Not because she is done, but the detention center was shut down. Her mother has a......more

I am kind of obsessed with books about small towns. Living in Utah, I’ve driven through so many small towns, where there is seemingly only a gas station and little else in the town. What would it be like to be a teenager in a place like that? Well, I hope they have a Tiffany Templeton. Tiffany lives......more

Initially, I found this hard to warm to. I couldn’t work out why Tiffany was regarded so negatively, and I found it difficult to really develop much interest in events following on from her release from juvenile detention. Slowly, however, as we peeled back the layers of this small town and learned......more

In this book, Tiffany lets us ride shotgun as she navigates her return to her small Montana town after being a girls' detention center. Small town eccentricities are writ magnificently (and often hilariously) large as the past and present of her story are woven together. Artists, sheriffs, cheerlead......more