BITTERSWEET

            This was a really good book, and it was not about supernatural being's of any kind. It is called Bittersweet by Drew Lamm.  It is about a girl named Taylor Rose. She is usually an artist, but ever since her grandma was put in a nursing home after a stroke, Taylor doesn't really feel like drawing. She loved 'Gramms', who lived life to the fullest and was always doing crazy things. Now her grandma just sits around and stares out the window, talking to people who aren't there. Taylor starts not caring. The only thing that she can paint are muddy puddles of color.
          Her best friend Ebbie goes away for the summer to her grandmothers house in canada and leaves her stuck. The only person she has to talk to are her dad, who is to wrapped up in his own world to even think about her, and Bears, a long-time child hood friend that she used to be really close to. Then theres Mike, who has been forever asking her out , but she never takes him seriously. After he is hired by her dad to work on the porch, she tries to get to know him better. During the summer, as her grandma dives farther away from reality, Taylor gets to know Mike better. And she rekindles her relationship with Bears. She is still trying to draw, but can't think of anything.
         On day she meets Mr, Mathews, a friend of Gramms. He shows her that she should try to remember Gramms like she was, not how she is, because it really isn't her any more. Taylor starts talking to her dad, and he actually understands how she feels. They by groceries for the first time in forever, and Taylor almost feels like she has her drawing back. Then she runs into Bears in a closet at the nursing home, kissing some one. And she doesn't trust him any more. She goes to Mike instead. She wants to get her drawing back so he offers to pose for her. He asks her how models usually pose, and since she wants to throw him for a loop, she says "Nude."
          Somehow he ends up posing naked and things take a turn for the worst and her starts kissing her. She gets away and tells him to leave her alone. She forgives Bears and draws a mural on his driveway in the middle of the night that says "i'm sorry." She is so happy to have her drawing back. In the morning it starts to rain and he see's it before it washes away. Taylor is outside washing her hair in the rain, and he coms over to say that he's sorry too, blah blah blah, then they kiss.

           She is so happy she wants to tell grams about it, so when it stops raining she heads over to the nursing home. On her way there she meets her old friend Mindy, who tells her that grams died. Taylor remembers when her mother died and she and Gramms went up to the hill and celebrated her life. So Taylor goes up to the hill and Celebrates Gramms life. She feels that that is what her Gramms would have wanted.
            I highly recommend this book. It is so quirky and it is filled up with poems and stuff. It makes it really fun to read.