Mosquitoland by David Arnold
I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange. In this awesome book, our heroine, Mary Iris Malone, (who is not okay) discovers that her mum is ill. So of course, she goes to Cleveland to find her. Along the way she meets Arlene, a Grande Dame from the Old School if ever there was one and her suspicions about Carls are confirmed. She is faced with the great evils of Poncho Man and Shadow Kid, and meets Walter, King of shiny, Rubix Cube, Cubs and Mountain Dew, and Beckett Van Buren, a devastatingly handsome Knight in Navy Nylon. My favourite character was Mim, but I fell in love with all the characters, and with every word... This book is funny, loving and cool. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes good books.