Eleven-year-old Aubrey was riding in the car with her family when a tragic accident killed her father and younger sister. Her mother, who was driving the car, was so devastated and depressed that she left Aubrey all alone. When Aubrey's grandmother gets worried because no one is returning her phone calls, she travels from Vermont to Virginia and discovers that Aubrey is living by herself. Aubrey soon moves to Vermont to live with her grandmother and is eventually able to begin healing and dealing with her grief and feelings of abandonment.
Love, Aubrey is a beautifully-written novel and filled with heart-wrenching sadness. Aubrey is a believable character who goes through periods of denial, grief, and anger. Her grandmother is an exceptionally strong woman and is instrumental in helping Aubrey recover as is Aubrey's new friend, Bridget, and her guidance counselor, Amy, at the school. Told from Aubrey's point-of-view, readers get an inside look at a child who has suffered a great loss, and I think this would be an excellent book for a child who has experienced a loss in his or her life. It would also be a great book for adults who are helping a child through such a loss.
I also think this is the perfect book for a kid who likes heart-wrenching books. I know when I was a child, I would have devoured this book, and even reading it as an adult, I found it inspiring to see how someone, a child nonetheless, dealt with such a devastating loss. I started crying on the first page and didn't stop until the book was finished.
Highly recommended, but don't forget your tissues.
ISBN: 978-0385737746 | Wendy Lamb Books | June 9, 2009 | Source: review copy from publisher | Buy from an independent bookstore | Buy from Amazon
5 comments:
It sounds like such a great book! I can't wait to read it.
Wow. I've read a couple books recently with moms who withdraw (Saving Francesca, Broken Soup), and I loved them both. I'll have to check this one out when it comes out!
I gave this book to my 13 year old daughter, everynight this week I went into her room well after she should have been sleeping, to find her- tears streaming down her face but unable to stop reading. She finished Wed. night and I finished this morning at 4:00 a.m. Thank you Suzanne. For any family, my absolute favorite strand of the story is between Aubrey and Bridget. I love walking into my daughter's overnights to see she and her friend gently stroking each other's hair as they rest watching a moving or just chatting. You captured the beautiful in what most of us see as the ugly adolescent.
My daughter's comment. " It wasn't just a dumb teen book" I struggle to find something for her to read to keep her from TV. THANK YOU< THANK YOU!
This book is absolutely amazing. The story line is so detailed... It gives you stuff to think about after you read the book. I love it when you can do that with a book. At the beginning of the story, I was a bit confused, but I learned a lot once once I got into the middle chapters. The point of view is nice, considering it's different from other books that I read. I bought this book when I was visiting an out of town friend, and I spent hours lazying on the couch reading this, crying many times. Of sorrow. Of happiness. This book is FANTASTIC.
I totally reccomend it. A+++
is it too sad? i really dont want to be crying over a book. it just seems really, well... sad. i guess.
Post a Comment