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Summary: A Time For Dancing Book Review by (...)
Review: The book I read was a novel by Davida Wills Hurwin call A Time For Dancing.
This book was about two 16 year old girls named Julie and Samantha, who have been best friends forever. Samantha would call Julie her "One and Only" because they were always there for each other and could tell each other anything. Samantha and Julie had one thing in common that brought them very close together. This was the fact that they both were very talanted dancers, and belonged to an academy along with other members. Samantha and Jules were very passionate about their future dance careers that thy were hoping to achieve.
The climax of A Time For Dancing came while Samantha and Julie were at their dance rehearsals. Julie hadn't been feeling that great but she just ignored it thinking it was just a cold. That day at rehearsal, Julie was overcome by tremendous pain and could barely move. This was when Julie's parents and Sam knew that something had to be done. They took Jules to every single doctor aroung where they lived, and all they told her was that it was nothing serious even though the pain just kept getting worse and not better. Finally Julie's parents brought her to a specialist in San Francisco. Dr. Conner took a bone marrow sample and discovered that Jules had a type of cancer called diffuse histiocytic lymphoma, and it had already hit Stage Four. This was the beginning of Julie's long journey of trying to fight off the cancer by getting chemotherapy. No matter what happened, though, Samantha made it known to Julie that she would always be her "One and Only."
The author of A Time For Dancing did a very good job of using literary elements to set the mood of the story. She made Julie's situation so real that it was hard not to get teary-eyed while reading what Julie's parents, Samantha, and especially Julie must've been going through.
I really enjoyed A Time For Dancing because it was a very heartwarming book that was hard to put down. If anyone would like to read what true friendship is all about, I strongly recommend reading this book that will make you "turn the pages through your tears."
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Summary: An Emotional Friendship
Review: Samantha and Juliana, Sam and Jules. They are each others one and only, beat friends till the end. After they start considering professional dace careers, since this their senior year, something unexpected changes their plans. One day in dance class Jules starts getting sharp pains in her side and back. Since neither of them thinks anything of it, Sam figures a walk along the beach will make her feel better.
After countless visits to every doctor in the county, they start to worry. Finally a visit to Dr. Conner, they get an answer. Jules has stage three cancer. As Jules quickly gets worse, she is put on chemotherapy. Not too long after does she realize that the cancer is winning the battle. As she changes into another person Sam and Jules' friendship is put to the ultimate test.
When Jules gets off the chemotherapy, she fells so much better. No more lying around and sleepy. No more yelling about the littlest things, and most of all, no loss of hair.
As Jules starts taking ballet again and going to school for half a day, will she remember her best friend, her one and only Sam? After a visit to the doctors Jules finds out she lost mostly all of her white blood cells, will it be too late? How much more can Sandra and William take of their eldest daughter dying right before their eyes.
A Time For Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin tells about an extraordinary friendship that can't be broken no matter what, not even by cancer. I give this book a definite five star rating and recommend it to any girl or woman. I must have cried for a half and hour even after I finished the book. I think reading this book made me realize just how special best friends are.
Amanda Kistinger
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Summary: This book is the most emotional story i've ever read!!
Review: This book is about two best friends, Sam and Jules. THeir friendship is remarkable, they obvoisly are more like sisters, and often say I love you, to each other. Suddenly, Jules is diagnosed with cancer, and Sam, and Julses life is sent into turmoil. Be warned, this book had as very sad ending... i cried so much at the end... the good thing.. there's supposed to be a sequel!!
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Summary: the best book ever!! buy it!
Review: A Time For Dancing is the best book! as soon as i picked it up, i couldn't put it down. Jules and Sam have been best friends since they were 9. When Jules is diagnosed with cancer Sam is shocked. Jules is put on chemotherapy. it was so touching, i cried. i'm not going to give away the ending, but anyone, young or old, has to read this! and guess what? Theres going to be a sequel!
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Summary: an amazing story of courage...
Review: I've read this book more than ten times, and everytime I read it, I cry, I smile, and I thank God for everything I have in my life. It is an incredible story about the courage of a young woman, the strength of a friendship, and the lessons that life teaches us. From the moment I started the first chapter, I fell in love with these two girls, and they brought me along on their ordeal so much that I felt I experienced myself. I don't think I'll ever stop reading this book, and I don't think it will ever cease to bring tears to my eyes.
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Summary: a book for bestfriends
Review: I loved this book. It was given to me by fiend Christina when we were in the eighth grade. Since the first time I met Sam and Jules I was touched. Each time I read it I laugh, I cry and I remember my friends. It is truely a book that should be shared among friends.
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Summary: tear jerker
Review: I bought this book for my 14 year old, because she loves dancing and she heard about it and wanted it. I picked it up to have a look and I just cried straight through the last 2/3 of the book. I had to skim some of it (it is a teenage read), but it's really quite good. There's a nice play back and forth between best friends: one lovely girl with cancer, and another equally lovely girl without cancer. The first has a very creditable relationship with her mother and family (a big part of the cry) and the other has an absolutely awful mother and an absent father. Both of their lives trickle down the drain pretty realistically during a relentless year of chemotherapy. Altogether well done - though I didn't appreciate the insensitive woman doctor - no pediatric cancer doctor could possibly be that hard-edged.I think of my daughter sitting in her big chair and reading this book in one sitting, thinking about her own friends, and dancing, and trying to figure out what cancer is and why people die, and crying. Of course, she's a girl, and she'll really love it. Big recommendation to all the soft-hearted teenage girls out there.
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Summary: A book not to read with mascara on.
Review: A book that shows the importance of friendship and the great depths of sisterly-love. It alternates between the two best friends, Sam and Julie. They talk of boys, high school, college,and love. Then, suddenly their lives are shattered when one of them is affected with cancer. A book for girls, women, and (of course) their best friends.
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Summary: The best book i've ever read
Review: wow. thats what i have to say. i couldn't stop reading this book. it was so special that i cant find words for this book. this story was very near to me cause my aunt died a few weeks ago after the cancer had made her very sick and in the end he was stronger then she. so she died a few days after her 50th birthday. so thats why i gave this book 5 stars.
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Summary: A Time for Dancing
Review: A Time for Dancing is about 2 best friends, Jules and Sam. Sam has to face the challenge of her best friend dying of cancer, while Jules has to face an even greater challenge, having the cancer. But Jules is strong and brave while having to put up with all the pain and chemotherapy. This book was beautifully written and I encourage you to read it. ....
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