Just Fly Away - Paperback

from muddyboy

Let me premise this by saying I think young adult girls will like the book but few beyond that audience. The central event in the novel is when Lucy (protagonist) finds out that she has an eight year old half brother from a tryst her father had with another woman even though he remains married to...

from nwieme

eh. was a YA, but I thought I'd give it a try. I liked it, but I didn't LOVE it.

from lostinalibrary

Fifteen-year-old Lucy's happy normal life is thrown for a curve when she learns she has an eight-year-old half-brother, the result of a brief affair her father had. Lucy is understandably angry and decides to run away to her grandfather despite the fact that she hardly knows him and he lives half...

from CarrieWuj

YA. Andrew McCarthy definitely had the teen thing down in his 80s (heartthrob) movies but in his attempt to write for them, I felt like he missed the mark. It starts out promising: 15 year-old Lucy Willows sets up the story: "There are just so many unsettling possibilities about life that you can...

from standhenry

Just Fly Away lets the reader join 15 year old Lucy as she navigates complicated family issues and relationships. It's a unique story and the 1st chapter hooks you right away. Vivid descriptions put you at every scene. Awkward sentence flow shows the author's novice with fiction. But the story sh...