This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
Aidan Chambers, . . Abrams/Amulet, $19.95 (808pp) ISBN 978-0-8109-7060-1
While waiting for her baby to arrive, 19-year-old Cordelia Kenn constructs a pillow book, a collection of writings on various topics, "a portrait of myself as a teenager." She hopes that when her daughter (she knows it's a girl) turns 16, the two can read the book together, to "find out how similar we are and how different." After a brief introduction, Cordelia begins recounting her experiences from three months before her 16th birthday, when she selects 18-year-old William Blacklin as her first boyfriend for "all-out, all-in-all, all-the-way-sex," prompted by a magazine article stating that "the average age when girls... 'lost their virginity' was sixteen years and three months." Chambers (
Reviewed on: 12/11/2006
Genre: Children's
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