Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. JacksonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I think this book has traumatized me; Jackson's story of Claudia's "search" or "journey" for her best friend (they have the strongest sisterly bond) when she returns from her annual summer vacation visiting her grandmother is fraught with so much mental anguish for Claudia (and me) because no one worries about where Monday is except Claudia. It also does not help that there is so much evasiveness by adults (parents, school, agencies) with this ripped from the headlines story of the awful life children suffer (and hide the truth) from. As the reader goes from Chapters titled by month, or The Before, or The After, or One Year Before the Before (or Two Years Before the Before) poor Claudia finds that maybe her best friend held many secrets from her and she asks herself why? as she learns more and more about Monday and her life in the Ed Borough, the urban ghetto. Once again, I really did not like most of the adults in this story (the only one who was really concerned and acted upon it time and again was 7th grade English teacher, Ms Valente) even her mother and father were walls Claudia came up against time and time again in her search for Monday. I highly recommend this book, it will open many teens eyes to the harsh existence many of their classmates endures and will hopefully create empathy and awareness to deal with this all too real problem in our world.
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