Jackie

by John Benton

New Jersey New Hope Book., 1981. 189 pages. "There's no place like home. 16-year-old Jackie Marshall found that out when her parents discovered her drug habit. Vowing to get even with them, she traded her intolerable home life forthe streets - and found a lot more than she bargained for. Narrowly escaping the clutches of a pimp, Jackie sought the protection of a sympathetic juckie, only to resort to the unthinkable in order to support their thousand-dollar habits. One thing became the only person she had punished was herself. Was it too late for a teenage Prostitute and junkie to start life all over again?"

Genres: Christian Fiction, Young Adult

192 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1981

Reviews

[Dawn Michelle]

I am not sure how to rate this now - if it was back in 1979[ish - I was 11 when I started that school] when I first picked this [and the rest of the John Benton books] book up off the "library" shelf at the very small Christian school I attended [WHO thinks these kind of books were okay for sheltered, naive, uninformed kids? Because they had a "christian" message, that made them okay. Trust me, we were not reading them for that message, that's for darn sure], I would have rated it 5 stars. I was totally into these books as it showed a world I had never seen before and I read them over and over and over again. I could have cared less about the "message"; it was all about the details and the "sex" and the salaciousness of them. And now, as an adult who has seen the world and looks at things through a much different lens, these books seem..tawdry and very sensationalized and a bit scandalous IMO. So I am going to leave this one [and all the others that I am going to review [with this same review] with no rating. I am really torn now, as an adult, as to what I think about these books.