Guitar Notes

I just read Guitar Notes by Mary Amato. The book was about Lyla Marks and Tripp Broody's lives intersecting. Lyla Marks if the perfect girl. She has perfect grades, perfect attendance, perfect posture, perfect best friend, perfect class president, and perfect at the cello. Tripp Broody is just about opposite from her. He is failing in almost every class, has no friends, and he plays the guitar. Though they both are from two different worlds, they are alike in ways they never knew. Lyla's mom died in a plane crash, while Tripp's dad died from a brain aneurysm and they both have demanding parents. Throughout the book, Lyla and Tripp both write notes to each other about the situations in their lives. They slowly go from people you see everyday to friends that are almost inseparable. This book is truly one of the best books that I've read. It shows how peer pressure can go way out of hand and it can really hurt you. Lyla was "forced" to do all of these different things like play the cello and apply for orchestra auditions. She was "forced" to do these things, but was too nice and scared to say no. Tripp, on the other hand, goes through all of this pressure through his mom. She takes away his only prized possession guitar and signs him up for all different social groups. This book also shows how you shouldn't judge a person by the way they act or what they look like. Annie, Lyla's friend, had told Lyla herself the Tripp was a freak. That their lives shouldn't be mixed with his way of life. Annie showed that she was a judgemental person. This book would be a 5 out of 5 because it was a really good book and it had lots of good morals in it. I would recommend this book for teens and young adults.