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Title: Sixteen and Dying (One Last Wish)
ISBN: 0553299328
Author:
Lurlene Mcdaniel
Publicate Date: 1992-10-01
Publish: 1992-10-01
List Price: $5.50
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: One Last Wish
Sixteen and Dying written by Lurlene McDaniel is about a sixteen year old girl Anne Wingate. Anne has been diagnosed with HIV from a blood transfusion. Anne and her father live together. While Anne is in the hospital someone drops off a check from the One Last Wish Foundation. Anne wants to go to Colorado for vacation, to a ranch with the money she was given from the One Wish Foundation. While Anne is at the ranch she gets sicker and meets Morgan. Anne and Morgan spend a lot of time together while she is at the ranch. He doesn't know her reason for leaving without saying good-bye. I really liked this book because it seemed like something that really could happen. I really sympathized with Anne and what she had to go through. The plot and characters were very life like and easy to relate to.
Lurlene McDaniel is a great author who has written over 40 books. She writes books about people who have life treating illnesses. She started to write about illnesses when her son was first diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes at age three. To make her books be medically accurate Lurlene researches about the illness she is going to write about.
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2: sixteen and dying more like sixteen and whining
This book was very depressing but funny. It was about a girl named Ann who finds out she has AIDS. She claims she got from a blood transfusion. Yeah right. But we won't get into that. So she finds 100,000 dollars in a check from JWC. So her and her dad go to a ranch in Colorado. Where she meets Morgen a jerky guy who works there. At first hes really hostile towards her. Then he wants to sleep with her. Really confusing if you ask me. Don't worry she doesn't sleep with him out of spite. Then she goes home to die. And he does a stalker type of thing and tracks her down. And thinks how ugly she looks but he doesn't say anything. Then she dies and he cried. Boo friggen hoo. I think Lurlene Mcdaniel just likes when teenagers die.
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3: Ashley's review
I liked this book because it was written like I knew the girl and that we had a special relationship.
Anne is so happy to go on vacation. She and her dad are going to a ranch since Anne loves horses. They are going on a special vacation because Anne had just gotten out of the hospital for a blood transfusion. At the ranch, Anne starts to get sick and has to go to the hospital again. She finds out she is HIV positive. Her father is furious. Later they find out it was from the blood transfusion she had gotten before is why she has HIV.
I recommend this book to anyone who likes sad books and anyone who wants to know the harmful things that happen when you have HIV.
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4: not up to my expectations...
I was really looking forward to this book, but now I'm kinda mad that I actually bought the book. It wasn't bad or anything, but it just wasn't what I was expecting. I was really hoping for romance. But there was hardly any.
So here's the plot or whatever. Anne is 16 when she goes to the hospital and realizes that she has aids from a blood transfusion 6 years ago. She only has like 4 months to live. She decides that she wants to go to a dude ranch for the summer with her dad (her mom's dead)for the last part of her life. She meets Morgan, the owner's nephew, who's 18. He likes her, yet they never become like girlfriend boyfriend. I mean, I don't think there's even one little kiss. What's up with that? She doesn't tell him she has aids, and when she cuts her hand and he tries to help her, she wont' let him. He's confused and hurt because he doesn't know that since she had aids, he could get it by touching her blood. Anne leaves without saying goodbye, and Morgan feels hurt. He actually goes up to New York where she lives. She's dying, and he stays with her until the end.
I'm a big fan of Lurlene McDaniel's books, mainly because I love romance. This book just didn't have any. It's still good, just not great.
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5: Absolutely brilliant!
I just finished this book yesturday, and I am searching for more. It was my second Lurlene Mcdaniel book, and all I can say is that this may be the best book I have ever read. I could not put the book down. The story just draws you in and I think most people can relate to the story in one area or another. WHen I put the book down I cried, and if it can touch me like that, I think it can touch the millions of people who will, or have, read it. I just fell in love with it, and now I am rereading it. It was just absolutly brilliant.
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