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Girls in Trouble: A Novel
by Caroline Leavitt
from St. Martin's Griffin

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Just Like Life
  Life doesn't go according to plan, in spite of best intentions and the strongest of bonds. The same goes for the lives rendered in this book. I am hugely impressed by the author's ability to stump me as I eagerly followed the realistic trajectory of Girls in Trouble. The plot course is deliciously impossible to predict, and the emotional status of each character never seems contrived. These facets, along with a compellingly realistic timeline for each character keeps the tale from straying into... more info

• I sobbed for the last hour.... A GREAT book, A MUST read
  I found "Girls in Trouble" a compulsive read and a tear jerker AND highly literate. As an adoptive mom maybe I was overly emotional, but this story, as many have said, IS a page turner. I read the hard cover and couldn't believe I hadn't read it earlier, now in paperback.
  Here's what is great about this book: The well-rounded unique characters, the atypical adoption story, the way everyone here is capable of transformation, the way the adoptive parents fumble-- understandably; the two "girls" at the... more info

• Exploring the Perils of Open Adoption
  This novel started out kind of like an "after-school special" showing the tragic results of teenage sex, but as I continued to read, the characters became more dimensional and I began to see that there is much more to this novel than I originally believed. The author takes the time to fully develop the characters so that you understood where their decisions are coming from.
  This is the story of Sara, sixteen and pregnant and the novel opens on the drive to the hospital to have her baby. She is attended... more info

• great book...unable to put it down
  I have started reading even though I am not done with this yet, I love the book. I have not been able to put it down. It gets good right from the start of the first paragraph.

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