A Match Made in High School by Kristin Walker

Throughout the book, Fee and Todd sling insults back and forth and pull pranks on one another. Having a good marriage is a privilege, and should be treated as such, but no one should be denied the opportunity to give it a shot. Now I see marriage as a living organism that returns the care you give to it. A couple should be together because of love, not because of some edict of religion and society! Legislation can't dictate commitment! Fight the power! Which I did, incidentally.Īs a teenager and young adult, I fancied myself as somewhat of a social rebel, so I vociferously defied belief in marriage for a long time. There was never any question in my mind that I'd get married some day in the whole white-dress, church wedding, fairy tale sort of way. I didn't know a whole lot of kids whose parents were divorced, so married moms and dads were the norm. When I was a kid, I think marriage was something I took for granted. How did you perceive the concept of marriage when you were a kid? How did that change when you were a teenager, or an adult? I babysat a lot in high school, so I'm sure I would've thought of myself as professionally skilled in egg/sack-of-flour minding. I was such a dork, though, that if I had, I'd probably have loved it. No, thank goodness! I never had to do any of those programs. I recently interviewed Kristin about her Match, and what sparks her imagination.ĭid you ever have to take part in a school assignment similar to that in your book, or the typical egg (or sack-of-flour) baby project? Her argumentative parents are the polar opposites of Fiona's parents, who are still completely in love and wouldn't have any problems with PDA. Meanwhile, Fee's best friend is hiding something, and Fiona's baby-sitting charge, the usually happy-go-lucky Samantha, is not so happy. Fee gets him back during their next big school event, and the war is ON. His real-life girlfriend has been teasing her since they were kids, and Todd purposely embarrasses Fee in front of (almost) the entire school during the senior marriage ceremony. While her best friend Marcie gets paired up with a decent (albeit freakishly tall) guy named Johnny, Fiona gets paired up with Todd, a guy she can't stand. To make matters worse, they don't get to chose their partners. In Kristin Walker's YA debut, A Match Made in High School, Fiona can't believe that her entire senior class has to participate in a year-long marriage project.

A Match Made in High School by Kristin Walker