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Title: The Dear One by Jacqueline Woodson ISBN: 0-14-250190-5 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Dear One is a moving, powerful book -- a must read!
Comment: Feni, a 12-year-old, does not want her mother to let Rebecca, a 15-year-old pregnant girl from Harlem, stay with them. But her mother insists this is something she must do, for her old school friend (Rebecca's mother).
Feni and Rebecca do not get along at first. Rebecca seems in awe of the middle-class luxuries that Feni takes for granted, and Feni resents and is angered by Rebecca's pregnancy. However, Feni and Rebecca gradually learn to respect and even like each other.
There is a great feeling of an extended family in this book, with Feni's mother, Feni's mother's best friend, Marion, Marion's partner, Clair, past reminences of Fenni's loving grandmother, and telephone conversations with Feni's father all providing a large net of love. Although the adults show their love differently, and Feni is not always sure of it, you get the feeling that this is one very loved child...and that that love and respect give her a solid base to accept and become close friends with Rebecca.
The Dear One was intense, moving, and powerful. I couldn't put it down. The relationship between the two girls was very believeable, and the issues of teenage pregnancy, lesbianism, and class difference were dealt with incredibly well and with great insight. I highly recommend this book.
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Title: If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson ISBN: 0698118626 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The First Part Last by Angela Johnson ISBN: 0689849222 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Juv) Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson ISBN: 0440219604 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: True Confessions of a Heartless Girl by Martha Brooks ISBN: 0374378061 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 11 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes ISBN: 0060535431 Publisher: Greenwillow Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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