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Title	:	Edna in the Desert
Author	:	Maddy Lederman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Second Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 184 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2016 by eLectio Publishing (first published September 9th 2013)
Categories	:	Fiction. Young Adult. Contemporary. Teen

Edna in the Desert Paperback | Pages: 184 pages

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Can a Beverly Hills teen survive without a smart phone, Internet, and TV? Edna will find out.
Edna is thirteen, a precocious troublemaker wreaking havoc at her Beverly Hills school. Her therapist advocates medication, but her parents come up with an alternative cure: Edna will spend the summer in the desert with her grandparents. Their remote cabin is cut off from cell phone service, Internet and television. Edna’s determined to rebel until she meets an older local boy and falls in love for the first time. How can she get to know him from the edge of nowhere?

Praise for Edna in the Desert

“I loved this realistic, funny-and-yet-equally-serious, pitch-perfect novel about a young teen with no distractions—other than herself. What Edna learns over her summer in the desert makes for one of my favorite books of the year.”

Melissa Senate
Author of See Jane Date and The Mosts

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Original Title:	Edna in the Desert
ISBN:	1632134004 (ISBN13: 9781632134004)
Setting:	Mojave Desert(United States)

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Ratings: 3.89 From 194 Users | 37 Reviews

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I had to read it for school. It's really not my kind of book though... :/ However, I did enjoy parts of it. The prose was good and detailed, and quite funny. I found myself both relating to Edna and feeling very irritated with her. I didn't really like the plot though. As my 2-star rating implies, it was OK. Not good, not exactly bad, but... Meh.

Edna In The Desert certainly was a hit. I was able to relate to the main character, not because I was like her, but because I have been graced with children like her in my life. That whole 'chip on the shoulder - smart aleck' attitude grows tiresome very quickly but there is always a reason behind it and it is usually not what you'd expect. Once the layers of Edna are peeled away and her heart is revealed, you see a glistening of hope there. She comes a long way in the book and I'd like to read



YA Not recommendedI have two issues with this book. One is an odd voicing that I've not come across before. The book is from 13 year old Edna's perspective, told in third person. However, stray thoughts from other characters pop up when you least expect them. Only little snippets, a couple of sentences long, they don't add up to enough to make this a multi-perspective novel.Since Edna thinks of the adults in her family by first name, as opposed to Mom or Dad, these perspective changes caught me

*I received this book for review from the author, but this in no way affected my thoughts expressed in this review*I did not like Edna at first. Not one bit. She was rude, she was selfish, she made me want to literally shake her so hard her brain rewired itself. There's a keyword there: was. She was rude, she was selfish. Was. Edna's also a teenager. Now, I know that's no excuse and if I gave that to my own mama after acting like Edna, that'd probably earn me a big ol slap upside the head. So,

Edna in the Desert is a book that I believe everyone can and will be able to relate too. Maddy Lederman did a wonderful job creating complex characters and a beautiful story.

Thirteen year-old Edna is out of control, and her wealthy, indulged parents are out of ideas for how to handle her. As a last-ditch effort to reform their daughter, Ednas parents drop her off at an isolated cabin in the desert with only her stoic grandmother and Vietnam veteran grandfather for company. Furious, Edna pulls out all her most manipulative, most challenging behaviors, but this time they have no effect. She is left with no choice but to survive the next two months with her