Goodbye Rebel Blue

Goodbye Rebel Blue by Shelley Coriell, 299 pages

Rebecca Blue, known as Rebel, talks to Kennedy Green during detention, even though they’ve never really talked before.  Their assignment was to create a bucket list.  That night, Kennedy is killed in a car accident and Rebel feels compelled to do the things on Kennedy’s bucket list.  Despite the fact that she is not a joiner and doesn’t fit in, even with her family, Rebel starts to complete the list, which is mostly do-gooder things, like adopting leatherback turtles and donating her hair or things that require participating with other people, like being part of a flash mob or riding a tandem bike.  While working on the list, rebel begins to see other people a little differently and also begins to understand herself a little more, and possibly, starts to deal with her own mother’s death.  A really good story about a high school student dealing with life and death, I think that a lot of teens would enjoy this book.