The Girl Death Left Behind
by Lurlene McDaniel
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Numb with grief when an accident kills her entire family, fourteen-year-old Beth suddenly finds herself living with her spoiled cousin Terri and trying to make friends at a new school.Tags
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I read this book and I almost cried. It is about a girl who stays home while her family goes out to a picnic because she is not feeling well. On the way out there all of her family members get into a car accident and they died. So she has to live with her Aunt, Uncle and her spoiled cousin. She faces issues and has a hard time accepting that her family is gone forever.
This is the story of Beth's survival after the death of her family in a car accident, on the way to a staff picnic, an event Beth missed as she was sick. Beth goes to live with her uncle, aunt and same-aged cousin. Strong feelings run between Beth and her cousin, Terri, especially jealousy and anger. Beth suffers from a measure of survivor guilt. Slowly all adjust to the changes and develop into a family together.
This book is about this little girl, she dident want to move from her house in tennessee.this little girl name was beth, she loved playing basketball with her neighbor teddy.They'ev known eachother for almost forever there like siblings.she moved to tennessee when she was just a little girl.one day she was being stuborn and she didnt want to go out with her parents so she stayed home by her self ,police came to her door telling her that her parents was in a very severe accident and they too her to see her parents at the hospital.Did they live??to find out read this amazing book, if u like books about death and crim read this. If u like thoes things in books then read this i know i do and i loved this book.:)
Due to the fact that I love topics related to "Love"/"Sadness" I did actually enjoy this book. == 3 stars!!
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Lurlene McDaniel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 5, 1944. She received a B.A. in English from the University of South Florida in Tampa. Before she started writing young adult books, she wrote a magazine column and promos and commercials at a television station. After her children were born, she turned to freelance advertising. When show more her son was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at the age of 3, she attended a convention for diabetes and met up with the organizer who connected her with a publishing company specializing in children's books. Her first book was Kickaroo: The Soccer Playing Kangaroo. She soon realized that writing picture books was not what she wanted to do, so she wrote Will Never Dance Again, about a girl who is diagnosed with diabetes. Thus began her career writing stories about teenagers who overcome life altering illnesses and the lessons learned. Her other books include Somewhere Between Life and Death, Too Young to Die, Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever, Six Months to Live, and The Year of Chasing Dreams. She received a RITA Award for Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep and three IRA-CBC Children's Choice Awards. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1999-04-13
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- Fiction and Literature, Tween, Teen, Children's Books, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .M4784172 .G — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Languages
- English, Norwegian (Bokmål), Swedish
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- Paper, Ebook
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