The Beautiful Between

Résumé

This book is about a teenage girl, Connelly, who lives in an apartment in New York City with her mother. She knows her father died before she could remember, but her mother freezes up every time Connelly asks her about it. She tells her few friends that her parents are divorced and her father lives far away. Connelly goes to an expensive private school paid for by her grandparents, and while she isn’t unpopular, she tends to keep to herself. One day, Jeremy Cole, the most popular boy in school and member of the rich Cole family, sits down next to her. Connelly can hardly hide her surprise. He tells her he wants to hang out sometime, but as Connelly becomes closer to him, she realizes he has a secret he feels he can’t tell anyone else. Their secrets end up being closely related, and Jeremy’s rich, close family begins to be more like Connelly’s broken family than she could have possibly imagined.