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Polarity in Motion

by Brenda Vicars

Genre: Young Adult

Release Date: December 2, 2014

Fifteen-year-old Polarity Weeks just wants to live a normal life, but with a mother diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, that’s rarely easy. Her life gets exponentially more disastrous when her sixth-period history classmates start ogling a nude picture of her on the Internet. Polarity would never have struck such a shameless pose, but the photo is definitely of her, and she’s at a complete loss to explain its existence.

Child Protective Services yanks her from her home, suspecting her parents. The kids at school mock her, assuming she took it herself. And Ethan, the boy she was really starting to like, backpedals and joins the taunting chorus. Surrounded by disbelief and derision on all sides, Polarity desperately seeks the truth among her friends. Only then does she learn that everyone has dark secrets, and no one’s life is anywhere near normal.

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This book was an emotional roller coaster.  I really felt for the main character Polarity.  Polarity has not had the easiest childhood because of her mother and now her world is being turned upside down.  She is being accused of doing something she didn't do.  No one will believe her except a girl she meets in when she is taken from her parents and her Grandmother.  One day at school she finds out that there is a naked picture of her on the internet.  No one will believe that she didn't pose for the picture.  The police suspect her parents and take her away to a safe home and then allow her to go live with her grandmother with the case is ongoing.  They move around a lot so as it is because of her mother's condition so she doesn't really make friends.  Now everyone is talking about her posing naked for a picture.  She is determined to find out who is behind the picture.  She likes a boy, Ethan at school and he seems to like her but what will he think now that the picture is out there.  He helps her by asking questions around school.  She wonders if her likes her back or if he just wants to help her.  Polarity goes through so much and you almost think that she won't get the answers she so desperately wants.  She finds out things about her mother that she didn't know while she is living with her grandmother.  I would love to read more about Polarity and Ethan.  She much happens in this book.  The book has a great story line.  She learns that certain people never really get the support or help because of their race.  She learns all kinds of lessons and things about herself.  Polarity's mother is all of the place.  Most of the book she is on egg shells around her mother.  Her father tries his best but most of time is still all about Polarity's mother.  So much happens in this book and it is really moving.  Polarity comes out much stronger and more confident than when she started.  I can't say enough about how great this book was.  Great job Brenda Vicars.

 

Brenda Vicars has worked in Texas public education for many years. Her jobs have included teaching, serving as a principal, and directing student support programs. For three years, she also taught college English to prison inmates.

She entered education because she felt called to teach, but her students taught her the biggest lesson: the playing field is not even for all kids. Through her work, she became increasingly compelled to bring their unheard voices to the page. The heartbeat of her fiction emanates from the courage and resiliency of her students.

Brenda’s hobbies include reading, making things out of re-purposed wood, pulling weeds in the garden, and going to Zumba classes.

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