YA Book Review: Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum 
Jessie’s mother died from cancer not too long ago, but out of the blue Jessie’s dad came back from what was supposed to be a business trip to tell Jessie that he’d gotten married to a woman he’d met online. And just like that, Jessie was uprooted from her childhood home in Chicago to her new step-mom’s mansion in Hollywood. 
While Jessie knows there are bigger problems in the world, she still wishes she could’ve had some say in the move. Plus, she doesn’t want to accept her new step mom, who admittedly is trying really hard to be good to her. Jessie struggles to fit in at her new school, where everything seems to be different than it was in Chicago. The high schoolers dress differently, act differently, and certainly don't seem to want her around. 
Almost as soon as she starts at her new school, Jessie begins getting messages from a mysterious stranger named “somebody nobody” offering her advice. As Jessie grieves her mother and her lost Chicago childhood, she slowly begins making new friends. Before she knows it, she’s fighting off the attention of several boys -- all the while she is trying to figure out the identity of her mysterious emailer "somebody nobody" that she might be falling in love with. 
The identity of "somebody nobody" is the hook that pulls readers through to the end of the book, where the big reveal might cause readers to either squeal in delight with an, "I knew it!" reaction, or throw the book against a wall and scream, "I knew it!" in utter disappointment that such a cliched answer was in store. I've seen both reactions (but not many in between) with readers in my library.
Think of this as a combination of two great old Tom Hanks movies -- You’ve Got Mail meets Sleepless in Seattle. It’s a teen tragedy turned rom-com called Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum