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Book Review: Queen of Kentucky (Poppy)

In Alecia Whitaker’s The Queen of Kentucky (Poppy), 14 year old Ricki Jo is tired of being a “country” girl, so tired that she renames herself Ericka and begins to adopt a “cooler” persona.  New clothes, new attitudes, new (so-called) friends make her feel like she has finally arrived.  But where is she? And is she any happier now that she has become someone else?