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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. About two-thirds into this book, I became tired by the build up and the threats of the big reveal. I skipped about 50 pages and read the last two chapters, where every thing is revealed plainly and clearly. Instead of a big gasp, I gave a defeated sigh. Once the abuser of the "dead girl" is subtly revealed earlier, the book doesn't do a good job of holding onto the reader. However, teens will love this book. It touches on an interesting concept of the naive sexually awakening of the abused feeling as though she liked the abuse and is actually a lesbian instead of a sexually/mentally manipulated girl. Wow, what a book, started it at 10:00 and finished it a 3:00. Of course I had to make lunch in between. Really though every time I had to stop to let dogs pee, make coffee or find food I quickly went back to it and picked it up immediately. As you can tell this book hooked me, made me mad and talk to it alot. A great story of growing up with a friend who's not your friend but a user for their own means, whether they themselves have been used it is still not acceptable....you know you've know them. They have a way of making you feel insecure and doubtful. If you ever feel that way run the other way... that's what most of my talking to the book was about..." take off you don't need to put up with that" but honestly if the book had paid any attention to me it would have been a dud so it's a good thing it couldn't hear me out. And hey don't judge me for talking to my book I know you talk to the TV sometimes. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: An unflinching story of a troubled friendship â?? and one girl's struggle to come to terms with secrets and shame and find her own power to heal (age 14 and up). Leah Greene is dead. For Laine, knowing what really happened and the awful feeling that she is, in some way, responsible set her on a journey of painful self-discovery. Yes, she wished for this. She hated Leah that much. Hated her for all the times in the closet, when Leah made her do those things. They were just practicing, Leah said. But why did Leah choose her? Was she special, or just easy to control? And why didn't Laine make it stop sooner? In the aftermath of the tragedy, Laine is left to explore the devastating lessons Leah taught her, find some meaning in them, and decide whether she can forgive Leah and, ultimately, herself. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Candlewick Press2 ediciones de este libro fueron publicadas por Candlewick Press. Ediciones: 0763632791, 0763644854 |
It's incredibly ironic because the central theme of the book is how hiding child sexual abuse destroys lives. Of course sexual predators wouldn't want girls to read this book.
Other people have said this is 16 , but the publisher's guidelines say 13 , and I've recommended it for younger. Yes, it contains dark themes. But sunlight is the best disinfectant. Child sexual abuse thrives because of secrecy, a central theme of this book.
Children who haven't been sexually abused aren't going to be traumatised from reading a book about it, and children who recognise themselves in the book - and there will be some who sadly will - could be empowered to protect themselves, or at least feel less alone. By "protecting" children from learning sexual abuse exists by preventing them from reading this book, we leave children who are actually being sexually abused in the darkness. ( )