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Don't Look Back
Two years after her father left her and her mother and set up house in Hawaii, Drew goes to his island paradise for her summer vacation, determined to figure out her relationship with her father and his girlfriend, Jane.
- GenresYoung Adult
152 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1993
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About the author
Lee Wardlaw
32 books66 followersLee Wardlaw swears that her first spoken word was 'kitty'. Since then, she's shared her life with 30 cats (not all at the same time!) and published 30 award-winning books for young readers, selling more than one million copies world wide.
Lee's books include Won Ton - A Cat Tale Told in Haiku, winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Children's Poetry Award and the Myra Cohn Livingston Poetry Award (among others); Won Ton and Chopstick, an NCTE Notable Poetry Book; and 101 Ways to Bug Your Friends and Enemies, recipient of the 2012 Forward National Literature Award for Humor.
Lee has a B.A. in Education, an AMI-Primary Diploma from the Montessori Institute of San Diego, and is finishing her M.Ed.
A former teacher, Lee continues to keep up-to-date with children, tweens, and teens by presenting frequently at schools, libraries, bookstores, and conferences. She lives in Santa Barbara, CA, with two dog-disdaining cats.
Lee's books include Won Ton - A Cat Tale Told in Haiku, winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Children's Poetry Award and the Myra Cohn Livingston Poetry Award (among others); Won Ton and Chopstick, an NCTE Notable Poetry Book; and 101 Ways to Bug Your Friends and Enemies, recipient of the 2012 Forward National Literature Award for Humor.
Lee has a B.A. in Education, an AMI-Primary Diploma from the Montessori Institute of San Diego, and is finishing her M.Ed.
A former teacher, Lee continues to keep up-to-date with children, tweens, and teens by presenting frequently at schools, libraries, bookstores, and conferences. She lives in Santa Barbara, CA, with two dog-disdaining cats.
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May 17, 2008
This book was good for like a romance with a little bit of wanting to kill the girl for being so stupid.
May 29, 2014
Found this in a box of books from when I was younger. No recollection whatsoever of reading it, and slightly annoyingly is set in Hawaii after I just spent weeks looking for something set in Hawaii to read for the state challenge and this turned up after I bought another book.
Anyway, it wasn't great or terrible on re-reading. Clearly not memorable the first time:)
The 17 year old protagonist is a bit high maintenance and ungrateful for my personal taste, but I guess it was a realistic portrayal of a person that age.
I guess it's in the same vein as Judy Blume or Betsy Byers, dealing with the kind of awkward experiences we all go through and probably indirectly giving some solid advice on recovering from a family break -up, but I didn't find it as engaging as Blume or Byers, which wherein the same box and have re-read.
Drew's father left her mother in a fairly underhanded way and her brother decided he wanted to live with his father in Hawaii. Drew has some unresolved anger about the situation but agrees to go and stay with him during summer while her workaholic mother,( who Drew seems to have on a pedestal), goes to Europe without her.
Drew comes over as horribly judgmental and a bit of a drama queen, after treating almost everyone, including her father's new girlfriend, best friend, new boss and the brother she claims to adore - pretty shabbily, she gets over herself.
Anyway, it wasn't great or terrible on re-reading. Clearly not memorable the first time:)
The 17 year old protagonist is a bit high maintenance and ungrateful for my personal taste, but I guess it was a realistic portrayal of a person that age.
I guess it's in the same vein as Judy Blume or Betsy Byers, dealing with the kind of awkward experiences we all go through and probably indirectly giving some solid advice on recovering from a family break -up, but I didn't find it as engaging as Blume or Byers, which wherein the same box and have re-read.
Drew's father left her mother in a fairly underhanded way and her brother decided he wanted to live with his father in Hawaii. Drew has some unresolved anger about the situation but agrees to go and stay with him during summer while her workaholic mother,( who Drew seems to have on a pedestal), goes to Europe without her.
Drew comes over as horribly judgmental and a bit of a drama queen, after treating almost everyone, including her father's new girlfriend, best friend, new boss and the brother she claims to adore - pretty shabbily, she gets over herself.
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