My 20th Caudill!

This was the final 2012 Rebecca Caudill nominee for me to read, and it was a great way to finish. Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass is a story is told from the standpoint of three very different people: Ally is happy living at a campground which her parents have been running for years, all the while waiting for a huge event - a total solar eclipse. Bree is your basic material girl, and she's extremely unhappy when she finds out that her family will be moving to that same campground and taking it over. Jack is a loner and has just flunked science, but if he goes with his science teacher's tour group to a campground (the same one, of course) for two weeks, he can get out of summer school. The three voices are distinct and authentic, the teens' problems are real, and the description of the eclipse near the end of the story was absolutely breath-taking. I loved the way the three stories came together...I bet you do, too.