YA Review: Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers

Claire, 15, and her mother (an obstetrician) are so busy in their lives that they communicate through notes left on the refrigerator door.  The entire book is made up of these notes, and we see the interplay between the two-- the fights, the frustrations, the mother's attempt to put on a brave face when she develops breast cancer and when her health deteriorates.  Fast readers can get through this novel in one sitting; I'm recommending it to a more female-oriented crowd in my LMC as a majority of teenage boys would only like the brevity of the book instead of the content.