Because that’s usually the way growing up is, something that happens in fits and starts. There are challenges and setbacks, times when she is vastly more mature than her fifteen years and others when she seems like a child. While some teen fiction books are about a teen’s definitive coming-of-age experience, Natalie’s road to adulthood is not so clear cut.
Review: Here’s what I love about Leap by Jodi Lundgren. As Natalie waffles between the worlds of childhood and adulthood, dancing provides her with a place to belong and mature. Unable to take the flak from her dance class friends and drawn to a different type of dance anyway, Natalie finds herself taking more chances with her talent. Before she knows it, Natalie is involved in a relationship she doesn’t fully understand, crossing physical boundaries in the moment she later regrets. With plans to take an intensive summer dance course with her friends, those plans go askew when attentions from Kevin, her best friend Sasha’s older brother, alienate Natalie from her friends. Summary: Natalie is a newly fifteen year-old girl who is about to have a life-changing summer.
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