How to Save a Life
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Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but nothing turns out as they had anticipated.
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Interesting submitted by alumeng.ajl on June 27, 2013, 5:24pm This book was interesting. It was well-written. The story was intriguing. But I didn't like either of the main characters. Mandy was annoyingly naive, and Jill was just not a pleasant person to read about. I get the idea of role-reversal adding a different aspect to the story, (usually, the poorer girl is the angry, pissed at the world one, and the richer girl is sweet and nice and a bit naive) but it felt like the author was trying too hard. Definitely an interesting read.
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New York : Little, Brown, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 341 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 710
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780316036061
0316036064
SUBJECTS
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Adoption -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Pregnancy -- Fiction.
Grief -- Fiction.
Family life -- Colorado -- Fiction.
Denver (Colo.) -- Fiction.