Undercover Book Review

Warning: This is the Kephart version, not one of the popular versions you know about some runaway model from Victoria's Secret when researching on YouTube!

Elisa Cantor, a sophomore in high school meets up with Theo Moses. Lila is the popular girl in school in which anyone gets in these days. Elisa ghostwrites love letters to boys who fall for girls. She has a passion for poetry and ice skating; the conflict - her father went to San Fransisco for work with Stuart Small, her mother is emotional (remember women are emotional while men are logical) and her sister Jilly is like a fashionista. When the Cantors start to fall apart, Elisa ice skates and she can feel her bones within the music on the pond. Underneath the pond is the marble girl and fractured things that are hidden - you know fly wings, fish eyes and leaves. In the end, there's an free ice skating competition you will never miss out.

This book is better than Disney's Ice Princess, even though it's early for Christmas in July - that should be a perfect gift for Christmas. That's exactly what I got from Amazon along with Penelope, Stardust and the last two books of Dragons in Our Midst. I think the author did a good job on making the story come to life, although her mom did not live to see this book published seven school years ago. I wonder if it turns into film; although I would like to say, "Hey New Line Cinema! I would like to acquire rights of Undercover by Beth Kephart. It was a good book. You should take care of it by the way." If it does, and that the story stays true, that's fine if it's a decade too late; the sherbet girls' sunshiny song will be "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" from Frozen. If the story gets too deviated, then, what the heck is wrong with the company?! I highly recommend you guys to give it a try, even though it's in juvenile fiction format in two parts (42 chapters in all - 20 in Part One and 22 in Part Two). Elisa's letter takes place two years after the book and it's the epilogue of what should've been the afterward before the acknowledgements.

4.5/5 Stars

Read It: June 16-26, 2014