This book deals with big things during a teenager's life, and I highly reccomend it to any teenager or former-teenager. This book can be read without reading Meet The Austins or The Moon By Night ( I did it), but reading the first two books give it more meaning. This is a VERY good book.
Also recommended: Anything by Madeleine L'Engle, and The Only Alien on the Planet by Kristen D. Randle