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Title: Junior (Class of '89, No 3) by Linda A. Cooney ISBN: 0-590-41677-4 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 October, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $2.50

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Relentless and Devastating
Comment: If you have read the first two books in this series, nothing in the world will prepare you for what is revealed in the first chapter. I actually threw the book across the room. Shock. Pure shock. Cooney's prose remains clumsy, her characters clichéd, her plots meandering; but with this book she opens up a whole new realm of teen-novel angst, soaring to almost operatic heights. Allie--the friendliest, most emotionally outgoing and appealing of the Class of '88 characters, is introduced to us at the beginning of this book with clenched hands, weeping--somehow, with her lack of all literary skills, Cooney does what Shakespeare does: reveals the basic theme of the story with a powerful opening metaphor.

At times, in its relentless hopelessness, this book reminds me of The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway. At others, naturally, it reminds me of a very bad John Hughes-ripoff 80s movie. For a true post-ironic emotional roller coaster, there is nothing quite like the Class of 88 series, with this, I am sure, the crowning point.