Content area
Full Text
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks Written by E. Lockhart Hyperion Books for Children, 2008, 352 pp., ISBN 978-0-7868-3818-9
Frankie Landau-Banks comes of age in E. Lockhart's smart and funny book. However, unlike traditional coming of age stories, where characters grow into themselves by bending and breaking rules, Lockhart's clever chronicle presents a protagonist who instead opts to make the rules herself. Frankie, longing to shed her identity both as "Bunny Rabbit" to her family and as "arm-candy" to her boyfriend, is...