I just finished reading this, Telling Christina Goodbye, by Lurlene McDaniel. It's about a senior in high school who has an abusive boyfriend and near the beginning of the book dies in a car accident with him behind the wheel. It brings into sharp focus death, guilt, blame, and healing. McDaniel did a great job with it, and I'd like to read more of her books. When I read her biography, and it said, "writes inspirational books for teens," I was kinda wary - afraid I'd end up being preached at but never was.
I've been trying to get my hands on as much current (within the last ten years) young adult fiction as I can. One of my friends triple dog dared me to try my hand at writing some - and I took the dare because I'd been turning the idea over in my mind anyway. YA is the fastest growing market right now, too. Publishers and kids are begging for books.
I noted that the majority of the books I've been picking up are from Simon Pulse, a division of Simon & Schultser (sp?). I was shocked to see that one of them had been printed originally in 1942 - and then had been reprinted by SP in 2002. The only thing different about then and now, imho, was that the families had gardens in their backyards, the kids drank beer at the roadhouse, and only the drug stores and department stores had air conditioning. Otherwise, the story is pretty much timeless. This is that book.
I just finished reading this, Telling Christina Goodbye, by Lurlene McDaniel. It's about a senior in high school who has an abusive boyfriend and near the beginning of the book dies in a car accident with him behind the wheel. It brings into sharp focus death, guilt, blame, and healing. McDaniel did a great job with it, and I'd like to read more of her books. When I read her biography, and it said, "writes inspirational books for teens," I was kinda wary - afraid I'd end up being preached at but never was.
I've been trying to get my hands on as much current (within the last ten years) young adult fiction as I can. One of my friends triple dog dared me to try my hand at writing some - and I took the dare because I'd been turning the idea over in my mind anyway. YA is the fastest growing market right now, too. Publishers and kids are begging for books.
I noted that the majority of the books I've been picking up are from Simon Pulse, a division of Simon & Schultser (sp?). I was shocked to see that one of them had been printed originally in 1942 - and then had been reprinted by SP in 2002. The only thing different about then and now, imho, was that the families had gardens in their backyards, the kids drank beer at the roadhouse, and only the drug stores and department stores had air conditioning. Otherwise, the story is pretty much timeless. This is that book.
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