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A Time for Dancing Davida Wills Hurwin Books

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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A Time for Dancing Davida Wills Hurwin Books Reviews

Honestly, I adored this book. Its characters were real and honest. Also, I cried about sixteen times throughout the whole duration of the story.
The story is alright at best, but the worst part is the characters. They are not endearing, but annoying. There are two main characters who are best friends, and the way their friendship is described is cliche and too repetitive. The only well-written aspect about this book is the way the author shows us how their friendship changes as one of them goes deeper and deeper into the cancer battle. It really makes sense and girls can relate to that kind of unspoken tension. However, I didn't really care about how their friendship changed because the characters were not very likeable.
Good book
This was one of the most realistic looks at the raw emotion surrounding a child with terminal illness that I've read. I loved that we got to see the decline of a lovable character both through her eyes and her best friend's.
A tear jerker for sure even the second and third times I have read it.
Saw the movie before I actually read the book I love the book more now. Jules and Sam relationship is amazing and how they cope when one of them gets sick. They still go through the ups and downs or being a teenage girl.
I read this book a good 15 years ago when I was in school. I loved this book then (even though it made me cry) and I still find it just as captivating today as I did back then. There is a bit of foul language in it as a warning.
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.