- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) (29 April 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0618141812
- ISBN-13: 978-0618141814
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.9 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,503,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Breathtaking in the purity of its emotions... it will engage readers to the very last page.' Kirkus Reviews
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Ellen has always been 'totally, madly in love' with James, her brother's best friend. Link, her brother, and James seem to have the perfect friendship. But one day a schoolmate suggests that Link and James might be a couple, throwing Ellen's world into turmoil and threatening to change her life for ever.
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the book is of good quality, even though it has been used it still looks brand new and the pages are fully intact.
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I found this book realy intresting I picked it up one night and I couldn't put it back down. The book is about a girl (Ellen) who's madly in love with her big brother's best friend James, she soon starts high school, and her new friend says her brother(Link ) and James seem like a couple. Ellen wants to know the truth so she asks them the question are they gay?
Link takes the question the wrong way and falls out with James, Ellen spends the night with James and Link won'ttalk to Ellen it's now Ellen's job to get Link talking to her and her new boyfriend James.
Link takes the question the wrong way and falls out with James, Ellen spends the night with James and Link won'ttalk to Ellen it's now Ellen's job to get Link talking to her and her new boyfriend James.
Format:Paperback
Despite the fact this book is probably aimed at the 13-16 age group, I would recommend it to people older than that as well. It is a very sensitive and thoughtful portrayal of a girl trying to deal with the complexities of today's world and her own emotions.
At the beginning you have the perfect friendship - Link and James, with Ellen as an occasional third. She idolises both of them, and accepts them for what they are. However, Ellen is now moving into high school, and the wider world beckons. She is always being told to 'mix more', since the only people she wants to mix with at the moment are Link and James. Unfortunately, this is what leads to the girl's fatal question about Link and James.
The effects of this one tiny question are astounding. It's like watching a pebble being dropped in a pond. At first, it affects only Ellen; then Link and James; then her parents. Soon the whole family structure is changed and stretched to breaking point. Ellen's relationship with James metamorphoses in surprising ways, as does her relationship with her parents.
However, I felt that her decision at the end was a little too sudden. Having been so nervous before, I wondered whether she really would have decided so quickly - but that's my only reservation.
This is a beautiful book. Freymann-Weyr writes lucidly and sympathetically about emotions and the difficulties of growing up. I would recommend it to any of my friends.
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