The year my sister got lucky isn’t about teen drama or lost love, it’s about something much more import family. Two ballerina sisters, Michaela and Katya (Katie) are uprooted from there New York city parades to the small of Fir Lake, Michaela instantly use the move to become a different person one who has many friends, a boyfriend, and keeps secretes from her young and over dramatic sister Katie. On the other hand Katie does everything she can to resist Fir Lake’s country ways, but seems the hard she’s tries to hate this small town where everyone knows everyone and its hard to keep a secrete the more she realizes maybe she wasn’t such a city girl after all. And it’s seems the only person Katie need in her life is the one person she doesn’t even know anymore, Michaela. This book had a plot all its own it shows that people grow up and change but sometimes they forget the people they love most in life.

Katie felt hurt and sad when Michaela wasn’t just hers anymore and has become someone she barley ever sees, but Katie never stop to think of Michaela and all the pressure she has on her shoulders from being the best at everything she does to having to be the perfect ballerina. Deep inside Michaela knows she’s hurting Katie but she can’t set by and waste her senior year in high school because her young sister is determined to hate everything about this town. In this book you see these once inseparable sisters transforming into best friends, worst enemies, and young mature women. The book shows that wanting a new life and standing back and letting life pass you by can not only hurt you, but the people around you.

For the whole fourteen years of life Katie had always had Michaela by her but suddenly she didn’t. Which made her scared and she didn’t know what to do, but it was also time for her to stand on her own and step out of her sister’s shadow. Michaela never had a normal seventeen year old life she didn’t go to many parties in the city if she did they certainty weren’t wild teenage parties. She never had boyfriend who she could go on dates with and kiss, but most of all she was never known by anything other then Michaela Wilder the best ballerina in her class, but in Fir Lake that’s not the Michaela she want to be she want more then ever to be Michaela Wilder seventeen year old girl. The year my sister got lucky has all to do with one word you hear it in the title and through out the hole book, luck. Some people say they don’t believe in luck you make your own path in life. Others say luck is just a state of mind and if you believe today’s going to be a good day it probable will.

But, I’m not sure what I believe I guess unlike Katie I believe that just because one person can get so much and someone else can get so little it isn’t because there unlucky or there not tiring hard enough or the fact that there not keeping a positive mind, though it helps to always do so, in the end it all comes do to destine. Are destine is mapped out before where even born all the mistake we make are wrong turns we took to get to are future and all the good things that happen in are lives are stepping stones paving the way to a future yet told. So, you can say luck is really, but everything in are lives and we can’t forget Michaela and Katie’s lives happen because they’re meant to. The year my sister got lucky is a Sparkling Stars Online Magazine must read from its in compiling story to its amazing characters author Aimee Friedman get inside the world lives of these two sisters so well you feel her connation with both Michaela and Katie as you read about there struggle to find each other once again.