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Title: The Things I Could Tell You! by J. L. Woodson, Pete Stenberg ISBN: 0-9702699-6-X Publisher: Macro Publishing Group Pub. Date: 24 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Mahogany Book Club Best Youth Fiction Award
Comment: We recieved this book to review and had a hard time keeping it in our club.
When our youth reviewer took it to her Grandmothers, her Grandmother took it to read, when she got it back she took it to school where her English teacher wanted to review it for the class. All in all this is an oustanding novel by a new young writer. A story great for teachers to use in class, a story all teenagers and adults should read.And it all started as an English assignment!
Rating: 4
Summary: Starting over?
Comment: "The things I could tell you!" is different in one
very interesting way: its author is still in high
school! I have to admit that I was astounded to
discover that this novel was written by a teenager.
Kudos to J.L. Woodson for accomplishing a dream so
early in life!
As for the novel, it is well written. The main
character is Cameron, a sixteen-year-old high school
student. Cameron is bright, beautiful and dedicated
to having a better life. He is a doting big brother
to his little sister and a considerate son to his
single mother. His mother is a strong woman that
married Ramon, Cameron's father, for love against her
parents' wishes when she was teenager. However,
following her heart came back to haunt her when Ramon
began to physically abuse her. Anna eventually gets
the strength to leave Ramon and start over.
Cameron, Anna, and Andrea, his younger sister, move to
Tennessee and begin a new life. Cameron meets the
love of his life on his first day at school, begins a
friendship with Justin, and learns to live without the
shadow of his father looming in the background.
Unknown to Cameron, Andrea has written to their father
and he has the address. When his mother realizes that
Ramon had an earlier parole we know that things are
bound to get sticky! What happens when Cameron wakes
to find Ramon in his room with a gun? Will Andrea,
in her child-like devotion to her father, cause them
all to lose their lives? Will they all finally be free
from Ramon?
As a mother of a teenaged son, I found Cameron almost
too good to be true. However, Cameron is still
believable as our protagonist. The story is
simplistic and innocent in one way but attacks the
topic of domestic violence and its effects in a very
real way. If you enjoy a good story that wholesome
and entertaining, then I think you'll like "The things
I could tell you!"
Leanna
R.E.A.L. Reviewers
Rating: 5
Summary: Teenage writer wise beyond his years
Comment: This is J. L. Woodson's debut novel. He is a teenage writer wise beyond his years. He is an excellent writer. The book is very captivating. Once I picked it up, I could not put it down. I began reading it on Thursday and finished on Sunday. The book is about a young man, his sister and mother who lived in an abusive home. Their father was physically and mentally abusive to him and his mother. His younger sister was daddy's little angel and the apple of his eye. She could see no wrong in her father. The father was Mexican and the mother was African American. The children were of mixed heritage.
After years of abuse, the mother shot the husband in self defense. The husband was sent to jail, and the mother and children moved to Memphis and changed their identity. Since I live in Memphis, I like to read books that have a Memphis connection. Some of the references to Memphis were accurate, and other's were fictional. The transition of moving from Chicago to Memphis was somewhat of an adjustment for the family, but after a while they began to like the city.
This is a great book, especially for a first time writer. I can't wait to read J.L. Woodson's next book.
Review given by Collean Payne-(correspondent sec.)The Sophisticated Souls of Learning Book Club
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