G34 Book Review of Destiny, Rewritten by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
Name of Book: Destiny, Rewritten Author: Kathryn Fitzmaurice ISBN: 978-0-06-162501-5 Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Type of book: poetry, lost book, destiny vs fate, romance writing, Danielle Steel, feminism, environment, 2000s Year it was published: 2013 Summary: Des·tin·y: |destinē/ (noun) The hidden power believed to control what will happen in the future; fate. Eleven-year-old Emily Elizabeth Davis has been told for her entire life that her destiny is to become a poet, just like her famous namesake, Emily Dickinson. But Emily doesn’t even really like poetry, and she has a secret career ambition that she suspects her English-professor mother will frown on. Then a seeming tragedy strikes: just after discovering that it contains an important family secret, she accidentally loses the special copy of Emily Dickinson’s poetry that was given to her at birth. As Emily and her friends search for the lost book in used bookstores and thrift shops all across town, Em...