Review: Queen of Kentucky

Title: Queen of KentuckySeries: NoGenre: Young Adult- ContemporaryAuthor: Alecia WhitakerPublisher: PoppyRelease Date: January 2, 2012Book: FC sent by publisher “Fourteen-year-old Kentucky girl Ricki Jo Winstead, who would prefer to be called Ericka, thank you very much, is eager to shed her farmer’s daughter roots and become part of the popular crowd at her small town high school. She trades her Bible for Seventeen magazine, buys new “sophisticated” clothes and somehow manages to secure a tenuous spot at the cool kids table. She’s on top of the world, even though her best friend and the boy next door Luke says he misses “plain old Ricki Jo.” Caught between being a country girl and wannabe country club girl, Ricki Jo...

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