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Summary: Is it a Time for Dancing?
Review: A Time for Dancing, is a truly touching novel about two best friends named Samantha and Juliana. They have been best friends forever. Julie loves to dance, she has done it since she was young. But, the summer before senior year of high school, Julie discovers that she has cancer. Through out the novel Samantha is there to support her friend in her fight against cancer and to help encourage her to keep dancing. This novel had me crying by the end. It was very depressing at times and enlightening at others. I feel as though after reading it, I have learned some strong life lessons without having experienced them personally. The novel also shows you how everyone really needs a true friend that they can be able to turn to when in troubled times.
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Summary: A Time For Reviewing
Review: A Time For ReviewingA Time For Dancing
By Davida Wills Hurwin When someone first sees the book "A Time For Dancing," by Davida Wills Hurwin, they will probably assume that it is going to be some sappy book about two girls who like to dance. If they take a deeper look, they will find out that it is so much more than that. It is a story that deals with friendship, love and hard times, and it will touch your heart.
Julie Starts getting back aches and is in excruciating pain. Her and her family have been going from doctor to doctor in search of what it is. They finally meet the one doctor who knows what it is, and Julie learns that it is cancer in her back that has been causing her so much pain. Now she is has to start chemo to try to fight off the cancer.
Sam is Julie's best friend. They have been best friends for ever; since they were little. Up until they found out that Julie had cancer, they were unrepeatable. Sam is a really good friend to Julie. She knows her so well and is always the one to cheer her up when she is down. Now the cancer has started to come between them, and is pushing them apart.
Julie is Sam's "one and only". They are always there to help each other. Now that Julie has cancer, she is blocking Sam out and will not let her help her.
Julie and Sam are dancers. They dance together at "Seventh Street Dance Company." They do competitions together, and dance together as partners. They have been dancing ever since they were little, and so they are really talented at it. Especially Julie. Julie has cancer, the doctor has made her quit dancing. The doctor said she can't start dancing again until she is all better. Sam has to go to Dance all alone, and face all the questions that the dance girls have about Julie alone.
"A Time for Dancing" deals with the hardship of friendship. You will be able to follow the characters down the long, hard road of friendship, and see the closeness of their relationship. It also deals with the hardships of cancer, and what it puts you through. "A time for Dancing" is a really great book that is perfect for any reader.
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Summary: A Time for a Book Review
Review: A Time for a Book Review
A time for dancing
By: Davida Wills Hurwin When someone first putts there eyes on the book A Time for Dancing, written by Daivda Wills Hurwin they will first think it is a nonfiction book, but really it is a fiction novel. While reading A Time for Dancing soon the reader will find out that the book is full of love, all different kinds of emotions, friendship, and boy to girl relationships.
Julie is the quite type that likes to do her own work and always work hard at dancing. She always gives one hundred and ten percent when she outs her mind on something or reaching a goal. She always likes to go to parties with her best friend Sam. Usually Sam is a different story, she likes to be her own person. Sam likes to goof off and hold up on her work because she thinks she has other things to work on. Demands all always apart of Sam, she is always is determined to get what she want. Somehow Julie and Sam are best friends and will always be best friends. They call each other their "own and only."
Julie is best friends with a loud mouth named Sam, but they go on breaks, away from each other through out the book. They go on little and large separation because Julie finds out she has cancer and she eventually blocks Sam out of her life.
Sam and Julie are both great and excellent dancer in The Seven Street Dance Company. They seem to always dance together in all their dance competitions. While doing dance Julie finds out she has cancer for the doctor, because of an accident of over working her body. This allows Julie and Sam to go on different journeys without each other.
When Julie finds out she has cancer Sam tries to help her by telling her about all the things she missed a school and what her old boyfriend is doing, but Julie doesn't want to here it. Sam calls her but soon realizes that Julie doesn't want her around when she doesn't return any of her calls and doesn't talk to her when they see each other. They soon separate and go there different ways in life.
When they spilt up Julie has to go through the pain of cancer, chemo therapy and the lose of her best friend, and ends up suffering worse when she finds out the results on her blood and bone tests.
This is the beginning where Julie and Sam have to travel through with or with out the ones they love the most. They soon meet up with there emotions and people that help on the way to stop the pain of suffering.
Through this magnificent journey of friendship and cancer, Julie and Sam finally find out that they need each other. They also soon find out that they need the ones who love them to survive their mission in life.
This book would be recommended for mostly ever girl or boy who loves to read love stories. This book will bring the tears form your eyes and a smile on your face. When you read A Time for Dancing you will change the way you think and feel about your friends and your family.
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Summary: Dancing with Friendship
Review: A Time for Dancing, written by Davida Wills Hurwin, is a charming, tear-jerking sensation. This novel, though, is still much more than that. It is an exciting adventure through love, hope, friendship, and suspense.
While practicing ballet at the studio, Juliana started experiencing very sharp pains in her hip that soon started coming in very sharp and quick intervals. They got to the point where Juliana was having a very hard time dancing and was almost unable to stand up. To make matters worse, Juliana's boyfriend just recently dumped her, so he wasn't there to care about what she was going through.
Juliana talks to her all-time best friend and life long soul mate, Samantha, about her problems. Sam is very empathetic and concerned about what Julie is experiencing. She tries to tell her to look positively on the matter and hope it wasn't something severe. Julie's average parents were also very supportive of Julie and her needs. They took her to all kinds of doctors in order to find out what was wrong with Julie. Julie's sister, however, was very annoying and impatient. It seemed she only cared about herself and her needs most of the time.
After going to almost 20 doctors, no one could figure out what was wrong with Julie. Then, finally, they came to a doctor named Dr. Connor who found out Julie's problem. After many hours of figuring out how to tell Julie's family, Dr. Connor told them. Julie was diagnosed with cancer.
After starting to take chemotherapy, Julie would go home and sleep for an average of almost three days. Her body also started to change dramatically in that time period. Julie lost tons of weight and also started losing her hair. This was a very hard time for Julie, her family, and also, Sam.
Together, Sam and Julie go on a journey through heir friendship as they have their ups and downs while Julie is fighting cancer. They both end up finding out that cancer is not that quick and easy to cure, and is more dangerous than people make it sound.
Through this life-changing adventure, best friends Sam and Julie find out what true friends are really there for, and they also become closer to each other than they ever were before.
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Summary: A Time For Dancing
Review: "Be your own judge" A Time For Dancing; believe it or not is a great book. Great dialogue, interesting plot, and oh my, the resolution is spectacular.
First there were two girls, Sam and Jules, which are completely inseparable. Then a terrible disease spread through her immune system shredding it to pieces and ruining her life. Poor Jules was a victim of cancer. At the beginning it was a horrific pain in her hip that would not go away and continued to get worse, until the terrible day that she passed away
The day that the whole mess started she and Sam were in dance class. She had a terrible pain but all the doctors that she and her family had gone to so far could not diagnose anything because they just couldn't seem to find anything wrong with her hip, not even any muscle or nerve damage. The doctors didn't even think about testing her for any diseases like cancer. Nobody was aware of the fact that she had cancer until she was seen by Dr. Conner. She remained to be seen by her as for she was the one who did all of the testing anyway, and she knew her the best also. Dr. Conner assisted Jules through her chemo sessions. The only problem with the chemotherapy was that the poison they were injecting her with made her extremely exhausted. She found herself avoiding all of her friends, she even stayed away from Sam, and that was her best friend!
A Time for Dancing is the story of the ways cancer ruined an innocent young girl's life and the damage that it also did to all of her family and friends. It makes real clear the way that rumors and stories get spread in school, and even outside of school. It makes even more clear the way that people act when they hear those rumors and feel sorry for you. People that Jules did not even know would walk up to her and start talking to her like they had known her, and been best friends for years. But at the same time, you can tell who your real friends are; they will care about you even when you have forgotten about them. Now that is how Jules and Sam were. They were each others "one and only" and that would never change.
Do you like emotional books; the kind that really gets you hooked like you are the person in the book? Well, I have got to tell you this is absolutely the book for you. It really gets you reading and you won't be able to put the book down...it is so realistic that it is scary!
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Summary: A Time For Being Brave
Review: The reader would think this would be a kind of 'fairy tale' story: a girl is diagnosed with cancer, she gets all the attention she needs, and she survives. This novel is not a fairy tale. "A Time for Dancing" is about two girls, Sam and Julie, who are seniors in high school. They love to dance, are inseparable, and best friends. Their world is perfect~ until Julie finds out she has cancer. It changes their lives, and it also changes people. Julie's ex-boyfriend, Jack, has a new girlfriend, and that's what Julie's center of attention was for a long time. Jack becomes mean towards Julie-and Sam- and he changes into a whole other person. When Julie goes back to school after a couple months with cancer, she encounters Jack and says to him, '"Thanks for all the cards and letters and flowers you sent me, it really meant a lot to me," she said. "I never sent anything to you," Jack replied. "No, you didn't, did you?" Julie said.'
Julie is so weak from the cancer; she can barely get out of bed at sometimes, yet go to school, dance rehearsal, talk to friends, and do all the normal things teenage girls get to do. On the other hand, Sam is trying to get through her life, because it's rough without Jules, as she calls her. She still tries to be with Julie as much as possible, but it still isn't the same. Julie does not understand that Sam is juggling school, dance rehearsals, her boyfriend, her mother, and her mom's boyfriend. This is truly an inspirational and emotional story about two girls on a difficult journey by themselves.
"A Time for Dancing" not only tells the story of Julianna Michaels, but also of Samantha. One thing that one was quite interesting and also enjoyable was that the chapters were 'Julie' and 'Sam'. You'd hear a part of the book in Julie's point of view, then in Sam's the next chapter.
It all starts out when Julie and Sam are at a party and Jack is there. He has a small role in the story, but is still vital to the characters~ he helps Julie get over him. Anyway, the story sort of revolves around Dance Company reheaersal, and that is where Julie's legs and back start hurting. She freaks out, but only because she is scared and in pain, and really scares everyone else. Julie;s mom takes her to the hospital, and after about three weeks and thirteen different doctors, Julie is diagnosed with diffuse histiocytic lymphoma, which is type of cancer.
All in all, "A Time for Dancing" will get the reader thinking not only about the characters and what took place in the story, but also about themselves. After reading this novel, they seem to have reached a better understanding as they go along this thrilling and touching journey with Julie and Sam.
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Summary: Dancing Till the End
Review: Dancing Till the End
A Time for Dancing
By Davida Wills Hurrin Having a loved one with cancer is atrocious, but living with it is even worse. A Time for Dancing by Davidia Wills Hurrin shows both sides to cancer, having a loved one with cancer and living with it.
Julie and Sam are best friends who love to dance. But cancer tries to ruin Julie's dancing career and friendship with Sam. Will it? Or can it? The friendship was very strong before. Will it with hold the killer torment of cancer, or fail?
Assam and Julie were dancing, Sam looked at Julie and she was not dancing right. She was off and this was unusual for Julie, Julie always did everything right. Then all of a sudden Julie collapsed in pain, she was crying hard and no one knew what was wrong. Sam, worried about her best
didn't know what was wrong. After seeing many, many doctors Julie found that she has cancer.
Julie Has motivation when it comes to dancing. When she found out she had cancer, her dance company was getting ready for a tour. After she found out she had cancer, Julie seeked treatment so she could continue dancing. Her motivation was to get better so she could dance in the tour. Motivation is a key element to the story.
A Time for Dancing really makes you think about how much time we have here with friends and family. We all should spend free time with them, get to know them better because your relation ship could be cut short, with or with out warning. To you or to your friend or family member. Life takes many twists and turns you may not be prepared for.
The story also shows everyone not to be afraid of the road of life. Accept the good as well as the bad. Learning from hat can help you in the future.
The book was well written and predicted that all young adult readers will love it.
A powerful, moving story that will touch your heart and bring tears to your eyes. Those who have read the book know what I'm talking about. It will bring emotions out of you and that's what a good book is about.
Julie feels left out when Sam goes out with friends. Sam feels left out when Julie goes to a party with her and all of their friends walk off with Julie, and she did not notice that Sam wasn't with them. Sam and Julie both feel as if their friendship has completely changed ever since Julie got cancer.
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Summary: One Word Changes everything... Cancer.
Review: A Time for Dancing is a book specifically aimed for young adults- soft-hearted teenage girls to be specific. Completely inseparable since age the nine, Julie and Sam struggle to make it through what life throws their way. They dance at an exclusive ballet company together when they're not overly busy with their typical American high school lives. A Time for Dancing will take all readers through what happens in a short period of two girl's lives. The book is written alternating from Julie's point of view to Sam's in something like a diary format, so it is more clear, obvious, and better shown how the characters feel about people and situations, it also better portrays who they are.
The plot of A Time for Dancing follows Julie and her best friend Sam on a journey of sickness, pain, and typical teenage drama. Things were going great, but unexplained aches and pains start taking over Julie's life, and one word changes everything... one word earth-shattering tears their lives apart.... Just one word... Cancer. Diffuse Hystiocytic Lymphoma, but the specific word doesn't matter. All that matter's is that one word. Cancer. Sam and Julie have always had a special bond between them, a unique friendship. Don't think that the book is only about Julie's battle with cancer, ian t is also about friendship, overcoming problems, and learning to make decisions for yourself. A Time for Dancing is written in such a way that for the last chapter of the book, it will be hard to read through vision blurred by tears. The ending of the book truly is tear-jerking.
The setting of A Time for Dancing is in California. At a high school in San Francisco, Julie and Sam will play out their senior year. When the book changes whose point-of-view the story is coming from, it gets slightly confusing. This book is easy to become emotionally involved in- it could take place anywhere, happen to anyone.
Julie is motivated to beat her cancer and get on with her life- she wants more then anything to dance in her ballet company's show. Sam is motivated to stay close to Julie regardless of what is happening in both of their lives.
A Time for Dancing is recommended for sentimental and soft-hearted pre-teen and young teenage girls.
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Summary: A Journey of Her Own
Review: A reader's first impression of "A Time for Dancing," by Davida Wills Hurwin will be that the story is fiction but also teaches you a great lesson about life it-self. The reader will realize that the fictional plot is much more. "A Time for Dancing" is a novel of suspense, love, and tragedy. Juliana Micheals is losing her ability to dance due to unexplainable hip and lower back pains. Julie attends numerous doctors' appointments but the problem was that none of the doctors could reach a consensus upon what the actual problem is. One of the doctors that she visits refers her to another specialist. The Oncologist told Julie that she had stage four Diffuse Histiocytic Lymphoma (DHL cancer).DHL slowly removes you from life. It causes severe pains and travels very fast. Immediately Julie started chemotherapy, where her oncologist recommends that she attend a regular check up. Her next visit with the doctor resulted in a diagnosis that inferred that the cancer had mobilized.
Julie made the decision that she would stop the Chemo because it was causing too many problems, problems such as weakness, hair loss, drowsiness and the loss of appetite. As a result Julie opted for a more drastic form of treatment. Following the new treatment she was immediately more felt energetic and mobile.
During Julie's next doctor's visit she was diagnosed to have no white blood cells, meaning that Julie was indeed anemic. Julie made the hard decision that she would go back on chemotherapy, her only wish was to never lose her hair. Julie's temper flamed as she went into the bathroom and clumps of her hair began to fall. She felt betrayed by her doctors as they told her this time she would keep her hair.
Julie decided to stop this new treatment. The result of having no treatment meant that Julie was to become deathly ill. Julie's parents were forced to make the difficult decision of taking her back to the hospital for a necessary blood transfusion to keep her alive.
Through all of these problems Julie found more than just pain, she found herself and the true meaning of life. In the end the results are not what we may want them to be but we all have to travel our own journey in life.
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Summary: The Best Book I've Ever Read
Review: A Time for Dancing is probably the best book I've ever read. It really touched me. I've read a lot of books like this one but this is the only one to date that has actually made me cry. It was really emotional and so true because this could happen to anyone at anytime. I'd reccomend this book to anyone.
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