I am currently reading Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson. Anderson is a Nation Book Award finalist, and she won the Michael L. Printz Honor Book award, and an Edgar Allen Poe finalist.
Catalyst is about a young girl named Kate that is about 17 or 18 years old. Kate’s father is a pastor at a church, so she basically is the “good girl”. Kate’s mother died when she was 8 years old. And she has a little brother that’s 14 years old.
She is a senior in high school and she’s super smart. She has been freaking out over the last 98 eight days because she only applied to one college. The one and only college she wants to get into is MIT. Her letter came in and she was rejected. After a bad day at school, she came home only to realize it got even worse. Her worse enemy, Teri Litch, now has to live in her house because their house burned down. Because her father is the pastor, it’s his job to help people who need help so he decides to let Teri’s family stay in their house. Teri is a bit of a heavy set, big girl. Because of this, everyone makes fun of her, and when people make fun of her, Teri fights them back and always gets into trouble. While Teri has been living with Kate, Kate notices that some of her jewelry has gone missing and she sees Teri wearing it. She has tried telling her father, but he wouldn’t listen. And this is all that I read so far.
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