Glow up, Lara Bloom is a great teen tale of friendship, learning to love yourself for yourself not for popularity and standing up to bullies.
Lara Bloom is atrociously clumsy and everything always seems to go wrong for her except when she’s playing football. When a new boy shows up she decides to join her friends in a “glow up” (aka makeover!). I loved that the focus of the book (constantly re-iterated by one of her friends) was not to do it for someone else but to do it for yourself. A very positive and important message for a teen audience.
The book is written as Lara’s journal. This does make it relatable and allows a deeper sense of how challenging that age can feel and how insecurities can get the better of us. I hope that anyone reading this novel and finding themselves in Lara’s position finds someone to talk to and has friends as wonderful as hers.
Lara Bloom is atrociously clumsy and everything always seems to go wrong for her except when she’s playing football. When a new boy shows up she decides to join her friends in a “glow up” (aka makeover!). I loved that the focus of the book (constantly re-iterated by one of her friends) was not to do it for someone else but to do it for yourself. A very positive and important message for a teen audience.
The book is written as Lara’s journal. This does make it relatable and allows a deeper sense of how challenging that age can feel and how insecurities can get the better of us. I hope that anyone reading this novel and finding themselves in Lara’s position finds someone to talk to and has friends as wonderful as hers.