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How to Save a Life

Sara Zarr

Hardcover | Pages: 341 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 15293 Users | 1865 Reviews

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Original Title:	How to Save a Life
ISBN:	0316036064 (ISBN13: 9780316036061)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jill MacSweeney, Mandy Kalinowski
Setting:	Denver, Colorado(United States)
Literary Awards:	Utah Book Award Nominee for Young Adult (2011), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2014), Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2013), Lincoln Award Nominee (2014)

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Jill MacSweeney just wishes everything could go back to normal. But ever since her dad died, she’s been isolating herself from her boyfriend, her best friends—everyone who wants to support her. And when her mom decides to adopt a baby, it feels like she’s somehow trying to replace a lost family member with a new one.

Mandy Kalinowski understands what it’s like to grow up unwanted—to be raised by a mother who never intended to have a child. So when Mandy becomes pregnant, one thing she’s sure of is that she wants a better life for her baby. It’s harder to be sure of herself. Will she ever find someone to care for her, too?

As their worlds change around them, Jill and Mandy must learn to both let go and hold on, and that nothing is as easy—or as difficult—as it seems.

Point Containing Books How to Save a Life

Title	:	How to Save a Life
Author	:	Sara Zarr
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 341 pages
Published	:	October 18th 2011 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Categories	:	Young Adult. Contemporary. Realistic Fiction. Fiction. Romance. Teen. Family

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Ratings: 3.89 From 15293 Users | 1865 Reviews

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Some stories feel thinner than the paper theyre printed on. Without disrespect to the work that goes into crafting a novel, sometimes reading certain books can feel like nothing more than following words across paper. A perfunctory effort for a temporary experience - theres nothing really holding me to the story. Then there are stories that make me forget Im reading, that draw me in beyond the paper and ink and binding. Stories that I both absorb and am absorbed into - an experience that feels

#1: The Fray's song "How to save a life" has been stuck in my head the entire time while reading this.... and it's very fitting.#2: The cover makes me want to bundle up even though we are having a HOT fall day down here is Georgia (seriously, it was 80 degrees today). #3: For whatever reason I find the cover makes me feel lonely.#4: Thanks Crystal for sending me this one!!! (this should be #1, but I am too lazy to go back and change it)So, this is a story told from two points of views, Mandy and



Some books touch you without explaining why. How to Save a Life was one of those books for me. I suppose there is something about trudging through lifes curve balls that calls to me. As Im sure it does to several others as well. Its inspiring to see people pick themselves up, dust themselves off and find a new semblance of strength and happiness.How to Save a Life isnt the most authentic book Ive ever read. The ending is much too happy, the characters forgive too easily, and come around all too

OH MY. I think I just discovered an Australian author equivalent to the Canadian Queen Courtney Summers. Or very very close to it. If you know me at all, youd immediately recognize that that is a recommendation of the highest order.Grief is such a supremely personal experience and How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr spelled that out for you brilliantly.I confess I was a bit apprehensive starting this since more than several reviews mention how unlikeable the characters were. But it was all for

In a word? Real.Through the perspectives of two teen girls, HOW TO SAVE A LIFE explores two extremely intense, emotional, and dramatic experiences the sudden death of a parent and an unplanned teen pregnancy (and all the complications, pain, loss, fear, love, and hope that can arise from each) in a compelling and page-turning way that never resorts to melodrama or forced emotion. On every page, through every confrontation and thought, through the internal and external changes both girls endure

Reasons I chose to read this book.1. I like the song.2. I liked the cover.3. Favorable reviews on GRs.4. Free download from the library.But I would not have chosen to read the book solely on the synopsis of this book. Reading about pregnant teens is not my firs choice. So imagine my surprise at how much I loved this book. The story is told in dual perspectives.Jill MacSweeney was once an outgoing girl with lots of friends and a boyfriend, Dillon. She turns inward, and pushes her friends, Dillon