sayingitoutloud

__Saying It Out Loud__ by Joan Abelove ISBN: 0-14-131227-0 c1999 136 pages R.L. 3.5 Points-4

Good sections to read aloud: -part of page 1 where she hopes her mom has lots of words to still use up -first full paragraph on page 5 where she wonders if her mom knows, and then the next paragraph where she knows better than to ask her father about it

Summary: With the help of her best friend, sixteen-year-old Mindy sorts through her relationships with her solicitous mother and her detached father as she tries to come to terms with the fact that her mother is dying from a brain tumor and how no one really wants to talk about it.

Joan Abelove, the author, based Saying It Out Loud upon the early death of her own mother.

YA Fiction--death; mothers and daughters; fathers and daughters; pain; Jews

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