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Reviewed by Lisa McCombs for Readers' Favorite
"Over My Head" is a clean, innocent story of a high school girl experimenting with love. Sang's father is trying to raise his daughter in the strict fashion his culture demands, but Sang reacts in typical teenage fashion: she rebels. When she becomes infatuated with her swimming instructor, a 20 year old college student, she is convinced that what she feels is love. Cameron, the college student, is just having fun with his summer romance; but Sang's friend Dalton is serious about his feelings for her. Sang finally realizes that she is already blessed with good friends and a caring family. Not only is Sang's father under the pressure of keeping his daughter true to her innocence, he is also dealing with a life and death situation over which he has no control. His brother is undergoing an expensive bone marrow transplant, putting Sang's family in serious financial turmoil because they believe that all family members are responsible for the welfare of the others. Sang's younger sister takes an active interest in raising funds to help pay for her uncle's surgery. This becomes touchingly humorous when she organizes multiple yard sales and freezer pop sales. The entire story revolves around Sang overcoming her fear of water by learning how to swim.
I really enjoyed this story and would recommend it to any one of my junior high students. The strong multicultural theme demonstrates the existence and the need of tolerance and acceptance that exist in current YA literature. Another common theme in this story is the idea of overcoming a fear and making good decisions in a difficult life. I really liked this book!
