Margaret

 By: Rachel Cohn//**
 * //You Know Where to Find Me

**Quotes**

"Mel and Jim could raise their children--who were biological cousins--together, almost like sisters. - Miles

"The left behind girl thinks, //If I were thin, could I have been her? The girl?" - Miles//

"No. I came by for you plenty. You don't even realize how often I came by just to find you passed out with a book on your lap. I think //you// chose solitude. //You// choose pills." - Jamal

__ **Reviews** __

You Know where to Find Me is so different from Cohn's other books, I had to re-check the author's name each time I turned a new page. But true to all her books, Cohn provides her readers with deeply intense characters, involved in harrowing, true-to-life, situations. And oh yeah, You Know Where to find Me also explores Cohn's own passion (?) for Washington D.C, which provides for one heck of an interesting backdrop. -reviewed by Jill MacKenzie

This novel is thought-provoking, emotionally draining and forces (unintentionally or otherwise) readers to undertake personal reflection. This is neither easy nor fun, but is powerful and memorable in a way that very few novels are - put simply: a must-read

As a result, this book is cluttered and brief, too short a text with too much going on. No one aspect is explored in enough interest or depth, and even worse the ending is too swift and too easy. Wrapped up in a simplified conclusion, Miles is stripped of her otherwise realistic character growth and the long, painful journey through her grief and personal problems. Despite the premise and promise, You Know Where To Find Me doesn't deliver much. Cohn has an adequate, unexceptional writing style, and there's enough taboo subject matter (mostly drug use and suicide) to hold the reader's interest, particularly in a young adult. It's not a bad book, and the content (especially the accepting messages about race and body type) is largely non-objectionable--I wouldn't warn away the interested reader. But there isn't enough to make this book worth reading, and so I don't recommend it.



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** The cigarettes are one of the main items in the book. Miles smokes them everyday. She and Laura use to smoke them up in a tree house together when she was still alive. Miles goes to these when she needs to get away from everything and get soem peace. She tries to give it up but she can't. those are what tore her and Jamal apart. He would come by and she would be smoking and so they never got to see each other. Smoking is her life.

This music video is called You Know Where to Find Me by Matthew West. It explains how he will always be there for a person if they ever need him. This is how Laura and Miles life was like. They always knew where to find each other if they ever needed company. Laura was there for Miles when she needed her and Miles was always there for Laura when she needed her. Especially when she was going through some hard times. They knew right where each other would be. ** **The boy and girl are suppose to represent Jamal and Miles. They have alwasy been best friends and he was the one person who didn't judge her about being fat or different. He would smoke with her and they hung out 24/7. They had always been there for each other untill this past summer. She thought he was spending all his time with this girl named Bex. She was pretty and really skinny. Miles envied her skinness. Jamal however came by all the time to see if she wanted to hang out but she was either to busy to notice that he was there or she was passed out somewhere.**

The first quote sort of tells the story of Miles and Laura's background. It explains how they will become to be best friends and consider themselves as sisters. They spend their whole childhood growing up in the same house and being together all the time. Their dads our brothers who aren't married. Miles and Laura are with each other every step of the way.

My second quote is aboout the girl Miles. She is overweight and does not like it. She wishes she was skinny, like all the other girls that she has seen. Especially like Laura. She thought that Laura was perfect and wanted to be just like her. Jamal, the guy that Miles likes, likes this really skinny girl named Bex. She thinks that if she was that skinny then Jamal would like her. Miles likes Jamal a lot but she thinks that he doesn't like her as a girlfriend because she is fat.

The third quote is Jamal talking to Miles. She asked him if he was going to miss her. He said that of course he would becasue he hadn't seen her that much this summer. She told him that it was his fault, not hers. He kind of got mad at her and said that he came to see her a lot but she had stuck to drugs instead of tryign to clean up. When he came by she was alwasy passed out so he could never talk to her or hang out with her. This explains their whole summer. Miles chose drugs, and Jamal chose Bex.