![]() ![]() ![]() That said, she’s also good at noticing stuff, has super hearing, is confident, ambitious, and determined to get what she wants from life. She’s oblivious to her faults, more than willing to point out other’s, selfish, and a bit short sighted. Rebel McKenzie is one of the most real 12 year olds I’ve read about in some time. ![]() Throw in a perchance for non-fiction, a love of digging up dead things, and the most ridiculous cat to ever grace the pages of contemporary fiction, and you have yourself one sealed deal. Give any character a love of blueberry Slurpees and Necco wafers, and you’ve more or less guaranteed them a place in my heart. A definite kink in the works, but Rebel knows she’ll be able to go to the later session of the dig if she can come up with the money to pay for it herself, and she has the perfect plan–she just has to win the local beauty pageant. Unfortunately for Rebel, she doesn’t make it very far…just far enough to destroy her feet, lose a bet to a convict, be grounded till she’s 50, and land herself a no-pay live-in babysitting gig for her seven year old nephew in her sister’s new (used) trailer. No problem, she decides she’ll just runaway from home to attend. Her biggest dream is to attend a dig camp this summer where she will have the opportunity to hone her skills, but alas, the family fridge broke down and funds were unavailable. ![]() Rebel McKenzie is (practically) a paleontologist (the Ice Age kind, not the dinosaur kind). ![]()
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