With Dad's comic strip coming to life on the big screen, life has gotten just little bit easier, but it's too bad money can't buy a teen life without peer pressure and misery. Paski's new school is all about material possessions and succeeding. She may be an apartment dweller, but she's attractive, excels in biking and has a psychic gift handed down from her grandmother. Paski discovers how to use those strengths to survive the Haters and help those less fortunate. Her gift even prepares her for the changes in her father's life.

Haters is about teen life in a warm, sunny climate, surrounded by the less fortunate and the shallow. The young characters go through the usual range of teen changes - relationships, choices, and consequences. What makes this teen book worth recommending is Paski. She's much more grounded than the typical, self-absorbed teen. Maybe her relationship with her grandmother and her psychic gift are why. In the audio version, actress of stage and TV, Flora Diaz, brings Paski and her tribulations to life on a grand scale. Haters is a novel teens will enjoy and parents will gladly recommend.