HARLEY LIKE A PERSON

Fourteen-year-old Harley Columbia is having a rough year: She's fighting with her alcoholic father, enabling mother, and best friend; her grades are spiraling; her new boyfriend is into drugs; and she has only her artistic talents as an escape. Harley is sure that the angry and abusive Roger isn't her father, and determines to find the proof that will confirm her suspicions and free her from Roger's tyranny. Carine Montbertrand's light, youthful soprano gives Harley's highly emotive narration a realism that teenagers will enjoy and adults will recognize. E.J.F. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/SEP 02]