The Blue Mirror by Kathe Koja is short but it is still a great book. Despite its shortness it holds great details and an even better story. Maggy is your somewhat average teenager, she doesn't like school and she hates being stuck at home, but the catch is that her mother is a alcoholic. The only part of school that she dose enjoy is art. When she does go to school during all her classes she would draw a different world inside her drawing book which she named the Blue Mirror. She dubbed her drawing pad after her favorite downtown caf?, the Blue Mirror. One day while at the Blue Mirror she meets Cole. Maggy is fascinated by Cole and the two girls that follow him, Jouly and Marianne. Maggy life is changed forever when Cole tells her that he loves her, but is he really what she sees him as or is he something else. You'll find out soon if you read this because once you start it, you won't be able to put it down.