Shucked by Megg Jensen

This was a quick, easy, kind of fun read. The problem was the total unbelievability of the plot and one-dimensionalness of the characters. Tabitha's mom is an archaeologist and they have traveled around the world together while Tabitha is sort of homeschooled. For the past several years, Tabitha has stayed with her grandparents in the summers on their farm in Illinois. Until this year when her mom sends her a postcard telling her that she will have to stay for the school year too. The book has many bizarrely unbelievable parts. Even though it is a small town and she has been there every summer for several years, Tabitha knows no one. Her grandmother did not make her meet other kids at all so when she has to start high school, having never been to school at all in her life, she knows no one. Then, since the school requires that she either be in some sort of sport or school activity and since she is a black belt in tai-kwon-do, they make her be a cheerleader even though she has no experience or desire to be one. That part just blows my mind. Has the author not ever been to high school? Cheerleaders have to try out and be voted in. It is a highly desirable position and at least one Texas mom tried to kill a girl who was competition for her daughter's position on a cheerleading squad. There is no way a school would just stick a new kid on a cheerleading squad. Pretty much everything else in the book is exaggerated and so far out of reality that is unbelievable as well. I received this book free to review from Netgalley.