Yesterday's Child

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Summary: GREAT BOOK!
Review: 16 year old Laura Inman's mother has just died and Laura has realized that she has known slim to nothing about her mother's life. Laura wishes she could have gotten to know her mother better before she had died. Laura searches the thoughts of her memory to figure out why her mother kept so closed off from the world, and even why so closed off from her own daughter. Laura snoops into her mother's stuff and finds a hidden secret to be forgiven in a letter. Laura's mother wrote the letter to an old friend, Megan. Who is Megan? Laura's curiosity into her mother's words written to Megan in the letter could help Laura learn deceiving details about her mother's past, and what happened between her mother and Megan 25 years ago. A class trip to Washington D.C. sets everything straight, but untold stories of her mother's past are brought forward. Will her mother's past help or will her mother's past change Laura's life forever? Well if that didn't get you interested, nothing will. Yesterday's Child stayed interesting and kept me interested the whole time. Every time I`d pick this book up I hated putting it back down. The way that Sonia Levitin wrote this book kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. A great thing about this book is that it did not drag on. Levitin left you confused and interested all the time, therefore causing you to keep reading as the suspense continued. I enjoyed it so much because of the way the story was told with a mystery plot but also how it added the other details of a teenage girl's life. By doing that, it gave me something to relate to in this book. A young teenage girl as the main character showed the determination and bravery of a young woman's journey through life's sticky situations. So if you enjoy reading about something interesting, that you can relate to, and that doesn't drag on, I highly suggest that you go and read Yesterday's Child by Sonia Levitin. Will Laura's mother's past change your life as well?

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Summary: Great Book!!!
Review: I loved this book! I usually hate reading but once I got this book for Christmas and started reading it, I couldn't put it down untill I was done! This is a great book and I would reccomend it to anyone who likes mystery and love stories. I totally desagree with some of the other reveiws saying that they woudln't recommend it to anyone. I recommend this to everyone, it's the best book I've ever read and I think anyone else would like it too.

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Summary: The Best Book
Review: I read this book for a 9th grade english report. I loved this book it kept me on edge and guessing what happened next. I don't really get into books much but this one was great i couldn't put it down.
Yesterday's Child is about a girl searching for her dead mothers old best friend from school. But the thing is she has trouble finding her and when she does there is trouble when she meets her. The ending is great. You should check it out.

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Summary: Yesterday's Child
Review: I was a member of Ms. Levitin's workshop at UCLA. She's as gifted a writer as she is a teacher. I remember her telling us that as authors we must learn to get in touch with our dark sides. That is one of the things she does so well in all of her books. I was with Laura all the way as she took her harrowing journey into the past. Mary Main, Author of TOWER OF EVIL and THE DEADLIEST OF FRIENDS

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Summary: THIS BOOK IS GREAT!
Review: The book had a pretty good story to it. I loved the part where she was looking at the newspapers and discovering her mothers past. At one point I was thinking, 'wow, this book is really, really good'. Right after that, though, it wasn't. The whole chapter was her thinking about how awful her mother was. Very annoying! The ending was okay, but not the best. And it was obvious an older person wrote this book. A pretty okay book overall.