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A Dance for Three
I didn’t even have periods two years ago, and now I’m probably pregnant. When did I forget how to be a child?
My mom thinks I should go visit Hannah. . . . I don’t know what I’d say to her. . . . What is it like to have sex? What is it like to be pregnant?
I know why I’m mad. I want to hold the baby too. I want to be his uncle.
When she finds out she’s pregnant at age 15, Hannah Ziebarth believes she will be all right. She will start a family with Milo, and the three of them will live happily ever after. Then reality hits hard.
Louise Plummer tells Hannah’s powerful story from three varied perspectives in this tale of loss, recovery, and self-discovery.
My mom thinks I should go visit Hannah. . . . I don’t know what I’d say to her. . . . What is it like to have sex? What is it like to be pregnant?
I know why I’m mad. I want to hold the baby too. I want to be his uncle.
When she finds out she’s pregnant at age 15, Hannah Ziebarth believes she will be all right. She will start a family with Milo, and the three of them will live happily ever after. Then reality hits hard.
Louise Plummer tells Hannah’s powerful story from three varied perspectives in this tale of loss, recovery, and self-discovery.
240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 7, 2000
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Louise Plummer
13 books34 followersLouise Plummer is a noted author young-adult fiction and a retired associate professor of English for Brigham Young University. She lives in New York, New York with her writer/professor husband Tom. Together they have four sons.
The Plummers moved from Boston to Minnesota in 1971 when Tom took a position at the University of Minnesota. While there, Louise earned a master’s degree in English. They both took positions at BYU in 1985, the same year her first novel, The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeier, received the the Delacorte Press First Young Adult Novel Contest, leading to its publication. The book later became a children's choice book with both the New York Public Library and the International Reading Association.
Awards received by subsequent books include Her second novel, ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, Utah Arts Council Best Young Adult Novel, Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel, and another New York Public Library Children's Choice Book for her second novel, My Name is Sus5an Smith. The 5 is Silent. The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman was also an ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, an Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel. Her A Dance For Three was also an ALA Best Book.
She has also written nonfiction books specifically for the Mormon audience and is a popular LDS lecturer.
--Bio courtesy of Wikipedia
The Plummers moved from Boston to Minnesota in 1971 when Tom took a position at the University of Minnesota. While there, Louise earned a master’s degree in English. They both took positions at BYU in 1985, the same year her first novel, The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeier, received the the Delacorte Press First Young Adult Novel Contest, leading to its publication. The book later became a children's choice book with both the New York Public Library and the International Reading Association.
Awards received by subsequent books include Her second novel, ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, Utah Arts Council Best Young Adult Novel, Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel, and another New York Public Library Children's Choice Book for her second novel, My Name is Sus5an Smith. The 5 is Silent. The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman was also an ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, an Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel. Her A Dance For Three was also an ALA Best Book.
She has also written nonfiction books specifically for the Mormon audience and is a popular LDS lecturer.
--Bio courtesy of Wikipedia
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September 11, 2022
A Dance for Three is one of The AML’s 100 Works of Significant Mormon Literature (https://www.associationmormonletters....)
A Dance for Three is the finest achievement of Louise Plummer, an author John Bennion has called the LDS Jane Austen. Plummer had five Young Adult novels nationally published between 1987 and 2007, each of them with strongly realized young female protagonists with ironic and knowing voices. A Dance for Three, however, goes into territory Austen would not touch: teen pregnancy and mental health.
Melissa Proffit has written, “Fifteen-year-old Hannah Ziebarth's life is in turmoil. After her father's unexpected death, her mother became severely agoraphobic and unstable---now she won't answer the phone, won't go outside, won't even make herself a sandwich. Hannah has to take on the responsibility of caring for her mother and working a part-time job to help pay the bills. Then Milo Fabiano takes notice of her. Milo is a handsome, popular older boy, and Hannah loves him passionately. Then she discovers she's pregnant. Hannah imagines how wonderful life will be with Milo and their baby; she sees them married, in their own home together, just the three of them. The reality is a nightmare: Milo spurns her, trashes her reputation, and deserts her. Hannah cracks under the pressure and abuse and is put in a psychiatric hospital. Hannah and her mother are able to get on the road to recovery through professional psychiatric help and help from neighbors, friends, and the local bishop." Hannah, like all of Plummer’s characters, discovers healing and acceptance in her family and community.
John Bennion has written, “Despite these cultural differences, the book is similar to Austen's work because Plummer focuses on the ways illusion causes personal damage. Early in Hannah's relationship with him, Milo hid his violent and selfish nature behind a cultivated appearance and manners, the kind of surface sheen that from long before Austen's day could be misread as good character.”
Plummer's considerable skill with words gives shape to this remarkable story that is neither preachy nor permissive but speaks beautifully about love and growing up, about responsibility, friendship, and truth.
I first read this book in 2000, and formed a strong attachment to it, in part because my wife and I had recently adopted our son, and we had the chance to briefly meet the young birth mother. Hannah towards the end of the novel must decide between raising her baby or placing for adoption. Her ability to bring that character, and her sacrifices, alive meant a lot to me. Reading it again years later, after suffering our own losses, the final scene, in which Hannah mourns for and celebrates her baby, will stick with me forever. It isn't often a novel can have that kind of impact.
A Dance for Three is the finest achievement of Louise Plummer, an author John Bennion has called the LDS Jane Austen. Plummer had five Young Adult novels nationally published between 1987 and 2007, each of them with strongly realized young female protagonists with ironic and knowing voices. A Dance for Three, however, goes into territory Austen would not touch: teen pregnancy and mental health.
Melissa Proffit has written, “Fifteen-year-old Hannah Ziebarth's life is in turmoil. After her father's unexpected death, her mother became severely agoraphobic and unstable---now she won't answer the phone, won't go outside, won't even make herself a sandwich. Hannah has to take on the responsibility of caring for her mother and working a part-time job to help pay the bills. Then Milo Fabiano takes notice of her. Milo is a handsome, popular older boy, and Hannah loves him passionately. Then she discovers she's pregnant. Hannah imagines how wonderful life will be with Milo and their baby; she sees them married, in their own home together, just the three of them. The reality is a nightmare: Milo spurns her, trashes her reputation, and deserts her. Hannah cracks under the pressure and abuse and is put in a psychiatric hospital. Hannah and her mother are able to get on the road to recovery through professional psychiatric help and help from neighbors, friends, and the local bishop." Hannah, like all of Plummer’s characters, discovers healing and acceptance in her family and community.
John Bennion has written, “Despite these cultural differences, the book is similar to Austen's work because Plummer focuses on the ways illusion causes personal damage. Early in Hannah's relationship with him, Milo hid his violent and selfish nature behind a cultivated appearance and manners, the kind of surface sheen that from long before Austen's day could be misread as good character.”
Plummer's considerable skill with words gives shape to this remarkable story that is neither preachy nor permissive but speaks beautifully about love and growing up, about responsibility, friendship, and truth.
I first read this book in 2000, and formed a strong attachment to it, in part because my wife and I had recently adopted our son, and we had the chance to briefly meet the young birth mother. Hannah towards the end of the novel must decide between raising her baby or placing for adoption. Her ability to bring that character, and her sacrifices, alive meant a lot to me. Reading it again years later, after suffering our own losses, the final scene, in which Hannah mourns for and celebrates her baby, will stick with me forever. It isn't often a novel can have that kind of impact.
June 7, 2016
-This book is about a couple that likes each other and been knowing each other for a while.Hannah’s mom finds out Hannah is pregnant, her mom didn’t ask what will she do with the baby or ask how she feels about it. She doesn’t even ask if she’s going to school.Hannah’s dad died by burping, it didn’t say when and where.Her mom ends up passing out in her house and got send to the hospital and Hannah got sent there too. They thought Hannah was crazy and sent her to rehab because she needed help with controlling her attitude. She imagines her life perfect with her boyfriend. I didn’t like the plot from my book because it all went by fast. Also it didn’t really say Hannahs dad’s name and his background, all it said is how he died.It didn’t really say the main characters names only in the beginning chapter.This book was comfusing kept using he or she the most. This book was interesting because she ends up getting pregnant and Milo ends up breaking up with her.
-Hannah is the main character she reminds me of me because when I was little I would always pick out flowers and give them to my mom just like Hannah.Hannah likes the smell of the flowers and colors just like me.
-My theme starter word would be love and hate. Hannah and Milo(her boyfriend) loved each other and been dating for 4 years, nothing would stop them from being with each other. It’s also hate because Milo ends up hitting Hannah when he finds out she’s pregnant, he thinks it’s from someone else and he’s not ready for baby.
-I say girls between 15-18 should read this book because it talks about getting over someone and acting yourself around others.Also not being with a guy that hits you and covering for him.
-Hannah is the main character she reminds me of me because when I was little I would always pick out flowers and give them to my mom just like Hannah.Hannah likes the smell of the flowers and colors just like me.
-My theme starter word would be love and hate. Hannah and Milo(her boyfriend) loved each other and been dating for 4 years, nothing would stop them from being with each other. It’s also hate because Milo ends up hitting Hannah when he finds out she’s pregnant, he thinks it’s from someone else and he’s not ready for baby.
-I say girls between 15-18 should read this book because it talks about getting over someone and acting yourself around others.Also not being with a guy that hits you and covering for him.
September 3, 2009
This novel, centered around a teen’s pregnancy, its psychological causes and resulting struggle with mental illness, would be excellent since it deals realistically with many good issues. Unfortunately, Ms. Plummer felt she had to add a REALLY EXPLICIT sex scene to make the point that the guy involved was so insensitive and unloving and uncaring he had to “score” when the Jazz “scored.” Not only is the scene unnecessarily explicit, it’s in really bad taste, as it was meant to be. It totally ruins what would/should/could have been a valuable addition to classroom libraries. Other teachers have pointed out an additional problem: since the girl proves to be mentally ill after she becomes pregnant, her disability allows girls reading the novel to continue with their “it won’t happen to me that way” mentality instead of facing the issue of teen pregnancy and sexual activity realistically. Her mental illness lets girls excuse what happens to her as the exception rather than the rule, ignoring the very realistic costs and consequences of the character’s sexual activity.
May 11, 2012
15-year-old Hannah discovers she is pregnant. At first she is thrilled and imagines a perfect life with her rich boyfriend. However, her dreams are shattered when Milo reacts negatively to the pregnancy and beats Hannah up. She experiences a psychotic break and is hospitalized where she does a lot of thinking.
The book seemed to be very real about teen pregnancy without getting graphic or crude. I also enjoyed the references to Mormonism without being too over the top. Hannah’s character is sympathetic but also relatable. Although girls would probably like this book more than boys, it would be important for boys to read as well.
The book seemed to be very real about teen pregnancy without getting graphic or crude. I also enjoyed the references to Mormonism without being too over the top. Hannah’s character is sympathetic but also relatable. Although girls would probably like this book more than boys, it would be important for boys to read as well.
August 5, 2009
This book was not as funny as Kate Bjorkman, but it's very well-written. Plummer weaves Rudyard Kipling's "Seal Lullaby" through the story of Hannah, a fifteen-year-old girl who becomes pregnant and disillusioned about her jerk boyfriend, Milo. Meanwhile, Hannah's mother, who became agoraphobic, following her father's sudden death, is reminiscent of the mom in "Everything Is Fine," which causes Hannah to grow up--and break down--too young. This book is the best of YA literature: funny, honest, and beautiful without being boring.
December 30, 2009
You know, this book wasn't bad but it didn't blow me away either. It was so Sarah Dessen--minus the cussing and the booze. One thing I really did appreciate was the outright Mormon-ness of the novel. I thought the bishop was an interesting character--I kind of wish the book had been told from his point of view--and I love the way the ward comes in to help out. All that aside, I think if I were still a teenage girl this book would have been VERY meaningful to me and I hope, hope, hope it is finding it's way to girls who don't appreciate the Jack Weyland of it all.
July 20, 2008
When Hannah tells her boyfriend she is pregnant, he beats her up. She is put in a psychiatric hospital after cracking one night. She is able to regain stability through psychiatric help, and at the end she decides whether to keep the baby or give it up for adoption.
DO NOT read if offended by: sex, light swearing, violence, and self-mutilation.
DO NOT read if offended by: sex, light swearing, violence, and self-mutilation.
September 15, 2010
My english teacher had us read this book my junior year of high school. I don't remember much about it but I do remember reading this book was the first time I looked deeper than the printed words and realized text could have more than one meaning.
December 12, 2023
A Dance for Three is a realistic fiction award winning story about a young lady getting pregnant and her rich, popular boyfriend. While the boyfriend says he isn't the one that got her pregnant the denies the kid. I will give a disclaimer that this story is not for young minds its more of a tween/ teen book. This story says a lot about today's generation. I'm sure to relate to this story because that's how it feels in the year 2023 that everyone is pregnant and nobody is owing up to take care of the kid. There is some relevance to this book in this day and age. I strongly feel like the Best First Young Adult Novel was correct for giving this book the award it got. I would be reading this book again at a later date, and will recommend this book to a few people.
November 22, 2013
If you like to read books that have to do with life struggling about young teens, A Dance for Three by Louie Plummer will probably be a good book for you to read. This is a interesting book that starts off with the character talking about her problem, Milo. She gets pregnant at the age of 15 and Hannah, the main character, is still in school. This story is based at around her neighborhood and at the hospital. I think this was a really well written book especially because it has some funny parts and I was always eager to know what was going to happen on the next chapter. But, what I really liked about this book that I found really interesting is that it changed character. By changing, I mean there was three character that got to talk and think. Each chapter had a characters point of view and they had thoughts on the other characters there were, which made it funner to read.
This book's main characters was Hannah Ziebarth, Hannah, Hannah(another Hannah), Milo as Hannah Ziebarth boyfriend, and Milo's brother Roman. Hannah Ziebarth starts by saying she hasn't gotten her period for 2 years and now she's probably pregnant of her boyfriend Milo. Hannah Ziebarath lives in a neighborhood with people who have health problems and that are not quite ''normal'' as she explains. Her dad died by a basically burping. Her mom was really sad all the time and she changed and Hannah Ziebarath had to do everything in the house, she was like her mom's, mom. Hannah would make her breakfast and her mom would get upset if she wouldn't put the table right. Hannah Ziebarah gets happy to know that she's pregnant and thinks Milo, her baby, and her are going to form a family and be happy. But, turns out the opposite thing happens. When Milo finds out, he gets confused and punches her since he gets mad at her. Ziebarath gets upsept and decides to go on without Milo, but she stills wants Milo to take part and do something. And after that really shocking parts happen that I wouldn't think it would happen in the beginning.
I feel the reader is trying to show readers a story about a teen girl struggling but at the end goes through it. The intended audience will probably be teens because it is about a teen girl and it has slang language teens would know and usually adults may not really find it funny or understand it. Plus, I feel this topic of a young girl would be very interesting to most teens. I would recommend this book to students because it is a very cool book to read and it's very different to other books.
This book's main characters was Hannah Ziebarth, Hannah, Hannah(another Hannah), Milo as Hannah Ziebarth boyfriend, and Milo's brother Roman. Hannah Ziebarth starts by saying she hasn't gotten her period for 2 years and now she's probably pregnant of her boyfriend Milo. Hannah Ziebarath lives in a neighborhood with people who have health problems and that are not quite ''normal'' as she explains. Her dad died by a basically burping. Her mom was really sad all the time and she changed and Hannah Ziebarath had to do everything in the house, she was like her mom's, mom. Hannah would make her breakfast and her mom would get upset if she wouldn't put the table right. Hannah Ziebarah gets happy to know that she's pregnant and thinks Milo, her baby, and her are going to form a family and be happy. But, turns out the opposite thing happens. When Milo finds out, he gets confused and punches her since he gets mad at her. Ziebarath gets upsept and decides to go on without Milo, but she stills wants Milo to take part and do something. And after that really shocking parts happen that I wouldn't think it would happen in the beginning.
I feel the reader is trying to show readers a story about a teen girl struggling but at the end goes through it. The intended audience will probably be teens because it is about a teen girl and it has slang language teens would know and usually adults may not really find it funny or understand it. Plus, I feel this topic of a young girl would be very interesting to most teens. I would recommend this book to students because it is a very cool book to read and it's very different to other books.
June 16, 2016
I first thought of reading Louise Plummer because I took a class (Imagination and Memoirs) from her husband at BYU. Apparently, she used to teach the class with him and tons of people were disappointed that she wouldn't be teaching that semester because she'd retired. I'd never even heard of her. So now--three years later--I thought I'd like to know what it was that everyone admired about her as a writer, and I found out.
This plot, in many senses, doesn't seem new: fifteen-year-old girl meets boy, gets pregnant, the boy won't claim the baby, she has to decide whether to keep the baby or give it up for adoption. The old woeful song of irresponsible teenage boys isn't what was new, and really Plummer didn't put a new spin on it, but she did give life to it. She put character into the story, and there was the question still of what Hannah would do with the baby because either one could have happened. I wasn't sure the author could pull off the ending that she did (even though I felt that she would want to have that ending), but she did pull it off and she pulled it off in a believable and satisfying way.
Also, I really liked the main character. Even though she does quite a number of things that are irresponsible, she has a complexity to her that makes it so you don't write her off. You care about her and cheer her on as she develops in the story.
This plot, in many senses, doesn't seem new: fifteen-year-old girl meets boy, gets pregnant, the boy won't claim the baby, she has to decide whether to keep the baby or give it up for adoption. The old woeful song of irresponsible teenage boys isn't what was new, and really Plummer didn't put a new spin on it, but she did give life to it. She put character into the story, and there was the question still of what Hannah would do with the baby because either one could have happened. I wasn't sure the author could pull off the ending that she did (even though I felt that she would want to have that ending), but she did pull it off and she pulled it off in a believable and satisfying way.
Also, I really liked the main character. Even though she does quite a number of things that are irresponsible, she has a complexity to her that makes it so you don't write her off. You care about her and cheer her on as she develops in the story.
November 3, 2009
I took a creative writing class from Louise Plummer when I was at BYU. I wish I had discovered her sooner because I would have taken every class she taught. She is just so funny and smart. And she made me feel like I could write a story. Last week I decided I would look up her books at the library and see what else she has written in the 13 years since I took her class.
A Dance for Three is a young adult book, but I don't think I would want my daughter to read it until she was at least 14 because it deals with some pretty serious topics like teenage pregnancy and mental illness. It's a short and easy read, so I could imagine middle school girls might pick it up. I thought it dealt with these topics quite well and the characters were so interesting. I wish there was a sequel with more about what happened to this family.
My favorite part of the book was probably that the main character Hannah lives on McClelland St. in Salt Lake City which is where we used to live. It was fun to read her descriptions of the fictional people and events happening on our old street.
A Dance for Three is a young adult book, but I don't think I would want my daughter to read it until she was at least 14 because it deals with some pretty serious topics like teenage pregnancy and mental illness. It's a short and easy read, so I could imagine middle school girls might pick it up. I thought it dealt with these topics quite well and the characters were so interesting. I wish there was a sequel with more about what happened to this family.
My favorite part of the book was probably that the main character Hannah lives on McClelland St. in Salt Lake City which is where we used to live. It was fun to read her descriptions of the fictional people and events happening on our old street.
October 19, 2009
I read this book for a university children's lit class, and then I made my sister read it. She was exactly one week older than Hannah is in the book at that time, and it hit her hard, which is what good literature should do. I liked this book for several reasons. The first is that it is a sensitive portrayal of teenage pregnancy. Louise Plummer surprised me on that, because normally her books are funny and light. This book had its moments of humor, so it didn't get too heavy, but it felt very real. Second, the characters all had personalities. They didn't feel like typical book people; they felt like real people. Thirdly, this may be the only book I read where the main character is a Mormon, but no one makes a big deal about it. That just happens to be her religion. That made me feel more mainstream than any LDS book I ever read. Anyway, this is a good, sensitive book on a hard topic.
September 18, 2009
This book really depressed me at first. "A Dance for Three" is a book about teen pregnancy, a pretty depressing subject on the outset. The father, Milo, completely rejects responsibility, and the seemingly hopeless mess Hannah finds herself in is complicated and overwhelming. For the first third of the book, I was depressed, but after Hannah is admitted into the hospital (the psych ward--I won't tell any more than that), her process to recovery and wholeness is encouraging. I ended up really liking this book. For me, Louise Plummer is a hit-or-miss author. I truly hated "Finding Daddy," but enjoyed both "The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman" and "A Dance for Three."
December 14, 2010
My English teacher Mr, Debarger told me about this book, and so for it's pretty good i'm on page 89, and still cant stop reading. It's about a younge 15 yr old girl, who has sex relationship with a boy she's dating, and soon after she get's pregnate and the younge boy wants nO PART OF IT!So I finished(A Dance for Three)a real good book. It really let's you know people arent really the people you think they are,there's always diffrent walls attached to them. I requrment girls to read this book for sure.Worth reading!.
December 24, 2016
Hannah is dealing with a lot: the death of her father two years ago and the subsequent mental collapse of her mother. Then, she finds out that she is pregnant. She is sure that her boyfriend, Milo, will be gentle, understanding and want to marry her. Instead, he beats her up after she gives him the news. This is the last straw and she has a breakdown, ending up in a psychiatric hospital. In there, she discovers that she has been angry at everyone, including herself, and must get past this anger to get better.
February 18, 2008
I really enjoyed reading this book and love how the topic- A Dance for Three- was derived from it because its based on three point of views of a teenage girl that had evetually gotten pregnant. I becane really interested though when it occurred to me that the girl was fifteen because I am fifteen and it's just astonishing to me to read about the lives of teens my age because I never know what could come upon my life at this age.
March 26, 2010
I read this book some years ago, as an adult studying YA books. It's dark. And I don't remember much of the over all story--though I probably could if I tried to. But there is one part that comes to mind over and over again. In fact it came up in a conversation with a friend just the other day. One of those comments that starts out, "I remember reading in a book years ago........." And I really think this should be a must read book for teenage girls.
June 7, 2010
I actually think I would give this 2.5 stars. It wasn't really that bad of a book, but just like 2 stars says I feel it was "OK".
This is a book about a teenage mormon girl who gets pregnant. Not only that but how she basically has a mental breakdown and her recovery from it. I am sure this kind of thing happens, but some parts seemed a little out there while others seemed a little cliche.
I wouldn't say I don't recommend this book, but I am not saying it was great either.
This is a book about a teenage mormon girl who gets pregnant. Not only that but how she basically has a mental breakdown and her recovery from it. I am sure this kind of thing happens, but some parts seemed a little out there while others seemed a little cliche.
I wouldn't say I don't recommend this book, but I am not saying it was great either.
November 2, 2010
I had read a book that Louise wrote, years ago, called Thoughts of a Grasshopper and I just enjoyed how her mind worked. Much different than mine, but so refreshing. This book did not disappoint. The characters were very real and developed fully and intentionally.
It is a hard topic, about a young girl going through a teenage pregnancy with many demons in her closet from a difficult set of circumstances from childhood, but throughout the book, she learns and grows and conquers.
It is a hard topic, about a young girl going through a teenage pregnancy with many demons in her closet from a difficult set of circumstances from childhood, but throughout the book, she learns and grows and conquers.
June 28, 2008
I love this book. Louise Plummer was a professor at BYU. Because of her close connection to my culture and my home, I gave her a try. This is a fantastic book about the struggles of teen pregnancy. This is the book that made me think I could possibly, one day, potentially, perhaps, be an author.
June 30, 2008
An absolutely heart-rending look at teen pregnancy. The young protagonist is so certain that her boyfriend is the ultimate, that they will get married and live happily ever after with their beautiful baby, that you just sob as you watch her grow up . . . because she's hardly more than a baby herself at fifteen, and her life doesn't go as she'd planned. Gorgeous, gorgeous book!
December 28, 2010
This book was frustratingly good. The premise of the story is about a young girl who finds herself pregnant and in turn is coined a whore. She has a mental break and goes to a treatment center where she learns to heal and come to terms with herself and the life she has. This book make me laugh, mad, cry, and rejoice in the progress the main character made.
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June 14, 2012
This book made me laugh and cry. I love Lousie Plummer, her writing style is just perfect to me. Hannah was so real, so lost without her father and mother, so perfect a victim for Milo. The journey she took to heal and find perspective was, oh I can't think of the words, I just could not put the book down.
January 14, 2013
I've been reading some books I've had on my shelf for a long time and I need to clear them out. We've known Louise and Tom since Boston days and they're both talented writers. They're also very funny. This book tackles a more sober issue - teen pregnancy - and it was well done. This is also the last book I read in 2012 and I didn't make my goal of 100 books for the year. I only got to 89.
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November 26, 2009I ReaLy Like this book when i read it. This book show me that never trust nobody with what you do.When you have a boy friend dont realy believe when he says i love you , because at the end he turns his back and walk away.This is what happend to the main character.
June 28, 2010
I read this in a YA Lit class at BYU. I really wasn't too fond of the story, but there is a moment when the main character is at this concert-in-the-park type event and realizes something (hint--title of the book) that is pretty powerful. Other than that, though, I'm not a huge fan of this book.
March 9, 2008
i wanted to absolutely love this book, but that didn't happen. i did like it a lot - but i think it had a bit more potential than it delivered and that was disappointing to me.
April 25, 2008
This is an incredibly sad book about teenage preganancy and how a parents death and mental illnesses can effect their children. It ends with hope after everyone wakes up.
May 15, 2008
After a psychotic breakdown, the pregnant teenaged main character winds up in a mental ward for teenagers, trying to figure out her life...
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