- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books (3 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330413457
- ISBN-13: 978-0330413459
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.2 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 954,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It's a long, hot summer - and a climactic one. For 14-year old Sapphire it brings the awesome, terrifying relization that she is pregnant - a discovery that catapults her into the eye of a storm as her body, her future, her life, become a battleground for everyone's needs but her own. Ages 14+.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Really good,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Opposite of Chocolate (Paperback)
I loved this book because it really outlines the way people think teenagers are too young to make their own choices. When Sapphire falls pregnant she feels trapped and searches for ways to escape her troubles by forming an unlikely friendship with Gilbert Lemon, an unusual boy with many problems of his own.This book describes the feelings of young love that only those who have experienced it can relate to. I would really recommend this book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great book,
This review is from: The Opposite of Chocolate (Paperback)
Bertagna's clever use of perspective enables a male reader to empathise with a young girl in a situation he can never experience - teenage pregnancy. Her relationship with Gil, a young social outcast, leads her into a danger which has disasterous consequences. The amazing thing about this book was that it made me rethink one of my fundamental beliefs, the immorality of abortion. It is this combination of moral discussion and gripping storytelling that make this book such a success.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Opposite of Chocolate,
By Kat James (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Opposite of Chocolate (Young Picador) (Paperback)
I was brought the Opposite of Chocolate by my mother for my birthday-i waswary, cos she often buys me really depressing books. However, i wasplesently surprised.The Opposite of Chocolate follows Sapphire. She is14, and becomes pregnant. Naturally, she is shell-shocked, as is herfamily. Her mother wants her to have an abortion, her sister wants her tosell the baby, and her father wants her to keep the child. But she justwants to do what she wants. This is a thrilling book, and i would really recomend reading it. It istold terrifically well, and i personally loved it.
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