Anderson, Laurie, H. (2002). Catalyst. New York, NY: Viking. Kate Malone, a high school senior who is an A student, a math and science geek, a star athlete and who has a boyfriend, organizes her life in details as logically as the periodic table is organized. But things do not go as well as she thinks and everything in her life happens just like a catalyst in a chemical reaction. Kate is not accepted at MTI, the only university where she applied. Kate’s neighbors move in with her and her father after their house burns down, and Kate shares her room with a girl, who is the school’s bully, and her brother. After all these, and other happenings, Kate realizes that she cannot control and “organize her life like the periodic table” and she examines
