Dancing on the Edge

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Summary: I will summarize the book, and then I will comment on it.
Review: Miracle McCloy is definately on the strange side. She lives with her father, Dane, and her grandmother, Gigi, who is deeply into the spitit world and contacts spirits. One night, Miracle is finally allowed to participate in her first seance. Her life then starts its dizzying downward spiral into near insanity when her one living parent misteriously "melts". It helped me think about how I treated others, and gave me a different perspective on life. This book has helped me become a more compationate person by experiencing another's pain. This is a fantastic book!

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Summary: Motivating Self Realization Read for Teens
Review: Miracle McCloy was saved at birth from a womb of a dead woman. Her father a prodigy writer disappears from life about the age of ten. Her grandmother tells her he has melted away. She spends her next four years living with other adult family members that are constantly moving among family members' homes and argue over her. Raised by her clairvoyant grandmother, she is influenced into believing she can bring her father back and devotes all of her energies to doing so. Struggling with her feelings of self identity she vacillates on the edge of insanity and has a difficult time dealing with the real world. When she tries to literally melt herself by setting herself on fire, she finds herself in a hospital setting. There she meets a psychiatrist that helps her deal with her painful struggle to seek out the truth about her family and discover her true self worth and which family members are truly there for her. Together with the psychiatrist and her Aunt Casey, Miracle begins confront the truth about the family's secret. It's an inspirational story that allows the reader to delve into the mind of this emotionally disturbed teen-age girl and her struggle to take a stance in her recovery of dealing with reality and truth.

I believe that for many young adult readers, Dancing on the Edge makes a great motivating read into one's search for self identity no matter how painful. Seeking out help through caring family members or other professional counseling can help in taking charge of one's life.

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Summary: Miracle: A Life of Drama
Review: Miracle McCloy, born from a dead woman's body, is struggling to keep up to all of her family's expectations. Living through a life full of drama she finally figures out who she really is. Her grandmother is always telling her about how her sweet young mother was hit by a car right before Miracle was born. She hates this. It makes her feel as if she is not real. Miracle lives with her grandmother and her father, Dane until one night Dane unexpectedly disappears and Miracle's life of drama begins. Miracle and her grandmother move in with her grandfather; both grandparents want her to grow up to be something different. Slowly and painfully Miracle starts loosing her family members one by one until the only person left is her Aunt Casey. As Miracle continues to live with Aunt Casey she starts feeling more and more unreal until one day it over powers her and she does the one thing possible to make her feel real again. After this incident she is brought to a psychiatrist and all of the hidden secrets of her family come out. Miracle then continues the struggle of being able to accept what her Aunt Casey has to tell her.

This is by far the best book I have ever read. It is full of emotion and sure to make you feel as if you were in every scene. It shows the struggle of figuring out who you are and that family secrets can really damage the family. I thought this book was so good I was sad when it ended and I will probably continue to read it over and over again. This book is also really interesting because I am just a little younger than her and I am really able to relate to some of the things she is going through. After reading this book I realize the importance of the little things in life, including family and friends. I STRONGLY recommend this book to girls from the age of 10 or 11 and up.

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Summary: Dancing On The Edge
Review: Miracle McCoy, a young girl, who lives with her grandmother and father, was born from a dead body. Her mother was hit by an ambulance while pregnant with Miracle. Her grandmother, Gigi, would tell her about this everyday, but Miracle hated listening to her blab about the day her mother was hit by an ambulance. Life was hard for her as it already is, but to know true reality and to be told what to hear and believe in is hard enough. When she finally gets to join in on the board gamed of Ouija with Gigi, Aunt Cassey and Uncle Toole, they finds out that Dane has disappeared, but from Gigi's perspective, Dane had melted. Dane was the only parent she had left and to know that he is gone, she went on a mission. This was to find Dane. As her mission goes on, hardship starts to build up as they moved away from their hometown to be somewhere away from all the gossips about Dane's disappearance. Miracle and Gigi moved into Grandaddy Opal's place. Both grandparents want Miracle to grow up different, but in their own separate ways.
When Miracle realizes that Dane isn't ever coming back, she tries to melt herself to be where Dane is. Instead, this only made things worst. She had set herself on fire and was placed into a mental hospital. At the hospital, she was able to get help with a lot of things that she couldn't cope with. She finds herself being with someone who loves her the most, Aunt Cassey. She didn't know what this feeling meant, but she loved it.
I really did like this book because it brings out a lot of interesting points. For instance, Miracle burned herself out of depression for her father and to be accepted by society. Through the mental hospital, she was able to get the help she deserved rather than being brainwashed by her grandmother once again. This book was also interesting due to the fact that it is filled with so much joy at the end and so much depression in the middle of the book. This book taught me to think for myself much more often rather than letting someone take over my emotions.


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Summary: Dancing on the edge.. Great, wonderful and engrossing!
Review: Miricle is just that. Born from her dead mother, she lives with her grandmother, GiGi, and father, Dane. Gigi is a medium and is constantly contacting the dead and Dane is her prodigy writer son. One night, the first time that Miricle gets to participate in a seance, her father melts! Or at least that's what she is told and has believed for her whole life. She moves then with Gigi and her Grandaddy Opal because the family isn't welcome in the town anymore. Miricle is determined to get her mother and father back, even if it means danger. With her many moves and attempts the last one does the trick. Well, maybe not the one she thought of, but it turns out that she is better to know the truth.

This book really gets deep. From the first page you get hooked, I couldn't put it down. It starts out like it's going to be a happy wonderful book, but ends up a heartfelt and moving ending. Anyone who has a spare minute should read this. It deals with so many different aspects of a girls childhood. From being teased at school, moving and not being "loved",to the deaths of loved ones, to finding out that the one person you trusted was lieing all along. I really enjoyed it. Through it's serious message an underlying humor is still evident.

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Summary: Brilliant and moving
Review: My grandparents gave me this book as an "unbirthday gift." I read it that night, staying up until 2 a.m. to finish. This book moved me to tears, with its tragic story of a teenage girl who has lost the identity that she feels she never had. Pulled living from the body of her dead mother, Miracle relies heavily on love from her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and most importantly, her father. After he disappears, her life is chewed up and spit back out at her feet. She is told, "If your mama was dead when you was born, then you was never born." She strongly questions her own existence. Miracle's grandfather signs her up for dance lessons, which she's always dreamed of. She throws herself so violently into her dancing that she ends up covered with bruises. For Miracle, a bruise is evidence that she exists. Later, she attempts to melt herself and seriously burns her legs. Peeling skin and pain are proof to her that she is real, that she was born. A struggle to cope with her history and her family force Miracle to grow up a lot in a very short period of time. Every teenager has to define her identity for herself. Miracle manages to do this, but her way is more violent and trying than most.

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Summary: Brilliant and moving
Review: My grandparents gave me this book as an "unbirthday gift." I read it that night, staying up until 2 a.m. to finish. This book moved me to tears, with its tragic story of a teenage girl who has lost the identity that she feels she never had. Pulled living from the body of her dead mother, Miracle relies heavily on love from her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and most importantly, her father. After he disappears, her life is chewed up and spit back out at her feet. She is told, "If your mama was dead when you was born, then you was never born." She strongly questions her own existence. Miracle's grandfather signs her up for dance lessons, which she's always dreamed of. She throws herself so violently into her dancing that she ends up covered with bruises. For Miracle, a bruise is evidence that she exists. Later, she attempts to melt herself and seriously burns her legs. Peeling skin and pain are proof to her that she is real, that she was born. A struggle to cope with her history and her family force Miracle to grow up a lot in a very short period of time. Every teenager has to define her identity for herself. Miracle manages to do this, but her way is more violent and trying than most.

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Summary: A book that will change your point of view.
Review: Of all the kids I know, none are quite like Miracle. None of their Dads melted, none of their grandparents can contact the dead through Ouija boards, and none of them wear only purple to ward off evil. But "Dancing on the Edge" is not a science fiction book. It's about a girl who searches in people, in surroundings, in herself and in her life to find what is true and what is real. "Dancing on the Edge" will twist your mind to and from reality a hundred times. A wonderful book.

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Summary: A Review of Dancing on the edge
Review: Recommendation. The book Dancing at the edge was an ok if I had to rate it from 1-10 I would rate it 7. I really like witchcraft and spells and some of it was about that. I learned some knew names of spells and a little more about palm reading. If your not interested in that you might get a little bored. I liked the character she was funny and interesting. Her personality was opposite of me she didn't hardly talk and with family or friends all she does it read . But bites and pieces were boring but overall I would read another book by the Author of grandma 's and Grandpa's then'' Dancing on the edge ''. But since Miracle moved from place to place. First she's at home then she at she goes to her Aunt and uncle house. Then at the end she wines up in the hospital. It turned out to be a happy ending. If you like sad family stories mixed in with will think about look into reading another book by the Author Han Nolan witchcraft and action you'll enjoy the book " Dancing on the edge. "

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Summary: A horrid description of the thoughts in this girl's mind.
Review: Terrible, obviously disturbing for someone of any age. Sad, and horrid. The way Han Nolan describes this girl and how she was raised is most hideous. Basically the whole story was grieving and sadness. It had quite a weird plot, practically fantasy and the big secret at the end of the book was quite melancholic. It's disgusted me. I don't know how anyone could give this book 5 stars when it's worth at the most zero.