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1. (Pdf free) Conditions of Love (Laurel-Leaf Books) Conditions of Love (Laurel-Leaf Books) Ruth Pennebaker *Download PDF | ePub | DOC | audiobook | ebooks #5692421 in Books Laurel Leaf 2000-12-12 2000-12-12Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 .77 x 4.17 x 6.87l, Binding: Mass Market Paperback272 pagesGreat product! | File size: 30.Mb Ruth Pennebaker : Conditions of Love (Laurel-Leaf Books) before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Conditions of Love (Laurel-Leaf Books):

2. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Enjoyed Condtitions of LoveBy Sarah SmithI enjoyed Conditions of Love. It showed me all the different types of love you could have for a person. I enjoyed the characters in this book. At some particular points in the novel, Sarah reminds me of my teen years and myself. Different parts of the novel made me feel sad for Sarah and all she had to go through in her teen years. Her friend, Ellie, is her only friend. Friends are the main things you need during your high school years along with family. One thing I didn't like about the book was Ellie's mom was so dysfunctional. Ellie's mother was a depressed alcoholic. Ellie's mom was always slamming her ex- husband and trying to get her daughters to hate him also. The girls were friends, but Ellie couldn't always be there for Sarah because she had to take care of her mother. Overall I did enjoy this book and would recommend it to teens. I enjoyed Conditions of Love. It showed me all the different types of love you could have for a person. I enjoyed the characters in this book. At some particular points in the novel, Sarah reminds me of my teen years and myself. Different parts of the novel made me feel sad for Sarah and all she had to go through in her teen years. Her friend, Ellie, is her only friend. Friends are the main things you need during your high school years along with family. One thing I didn't like about the book was Ellie's mom was so dysfunctional. Ellie's mother was a depressed alcoholic. Ellie's mom was always slamming her ex-husband and trying to get her daughters to hate him also. The girls were friends, but Ellie couldn't always be there for Sarah because she had to take care of her mother. Overall I did enjoy this book and would recommend it to teens.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Conditions of LoveBy sueann b.Dealing with her parents divorce, Sarah Morgan's life took a big twist when her father died of a heart attack and she moved to a new town, and school. Sarah idolized her father, and even loved him more than her mother, without him she felt like life was cruel, and not worth living. Her day to day life consisted of her being the typical outsider in school, dealing with her friend's issues, and her mother trying to be her friend rather than the mother that she needed. The author's diction gave Sarah a realistic teenage attitude. As I read the book I could almost put myself in Sarah's place as she described her relationship with her father and how she felt about her parents' divorce. The mood completely changed after Sarah found out that her father was a drunk and often hurt her mother. Matters really got worst as her mother got into a deeper relationship with her soon to be step father Mr. Cooper. Sarah wanted to express her feelings to Ben, and wanted to help her friend over come her problems and solve environmental issues by wrting letters to the governor. Upon her friend's death she felt dissapionted but relief as a sign to move on with her life and make the best out of it. This book is very realistic, honest, and unbelievable. I highly recommend it, espeacially for those in a parallel structure to Sarah.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Conditions of loveBy A CustomerKortney Dowell1st hourOctober 3 2005 Sarah Morgan has so many problems she is having to deal with. One being the death of her father about one year ago. She also has to deal with her mother's problems. Her parents got divorced one year before his death. It was so hard for Sarah because she loved her father more than her mother. Her friend was no help either because all she ever wanted to do was write complaints to the government. She also liked a boy just like every girl her age does. She just didn't know how to express her feelings to him. On top of that she may be getting a new stepfather, Mr. Cooper. Sarah's feelings totally change when she finds out her father was a drunk and hit her mother frequently. She now has to decide should she love her father even though he has done such horrible things. In the end Sarah decides that she loves her father know matter what mistakes he has made in the past because he still loved her even though she made many mistakes. This book is very intense and realistic. So I encourage you to read this bookAnd journey through many problems with Sarah Morgan. Sarah Morgan's world is spinning out of control . . . and it couldn't have happened at a more confusing time. While coming to grips with the truth about the recently deceased father that she idolized, Sarah must also contend with beginning her freshman year at a high-profile Dallas high school where if you see an old, beat-up car, it probably belongs to one of the teachers. While navigating halls overrun with phonies and cheerleaders, Sarah's quest to make peace with the old and grow with the new extends even to her relationship with her best friend. Now the two are forced to understand that with the future comes new and strange feelings, and with them, change. As a result of these often hilarious and sometimes heart-wrenching moments, Sarah learns that there are many different conditions of love. From School Library JournalGrade 7-9-A freshman at elite Hillside Park High in Dallas, Sarah feels invisible at school and at home with her cold, television-star mother. In a first-person narrative, the aspiring journalist reveals her day-to- day fears and insecurities through imagined "headlines and subheads." The teen also flashes back to the love, warmth, and sense of adventure she associated with her father before his death the previous year. She feels herself growing away from her friend Ellie and her controlling, emotionally unstable family. When Ellie confronts Sarah about her father's alcoholism and financial misdealings, Sarah must reconcile truth and memory. Then Ellie's sister commits suicide, and Sarah feels the painful consequences of her actions as a friend. She spends a lot of time trying to get her emotions under control. She also spends a lot of time thinking about sex. Reflections on kissing techniques, parents in bed, and male masturbation are topics for her fertile imagination. Stereotypical situations-Ellie's divorced mom's obsession with age and self-discovery; her ex-Cowboys' cheerleader stepmom; football coach as history teacher; and a Texas landscape of superficial blonds, money, and mansions-could make a humorous soap opera. Too many issues and

3. fairly predictable teen characters weaken what is otherwise a tender and sensitive exploration of one girl's search for love, friendship, and acceptance in a less-than-perfect world.Gail Richmond, San Diego Unified Schools, CA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.From BooklistFourteen-year-old Sarah is having a hard time adjusting after her father's death. Although her parents were divorced, Sarah's dad was the glue holding them all together. But now, it seems, everything is falling apart. In her elite high school, she's a social outsider. At home, she's estranged from her mother. Her best friend, Ellie, is absorbed with her own problems. And learning painful truths about her father's alcoholism and behavior causes Sarah to reevaluate the whole notion of love, friends, family, and even oneself. But she comes to realize that despite the pain that people may cause one another, the important thing is to keep reaching out. The often humorous train-of-thought style is appealing and realistic, and readers--who become Sarah's confidantes through direct address--will relate to her issues of heart and mind. An insightful exploration of teenage neuroses, and the importance of reconciling truth with myth and appearances, as well as the varying degrees and types of love, most important, self-love. Shelle RosenfeldFrom Kirkus sSarah's hard-drinking, charismatic father has been dead for close to a year when this aptly titled novel from Pennebaker (Don't Think Twice, 1996, etc.) opens. A social nonentity in her ritzy school, Sarah and her earnest best friend, Ellie, spend their afternoons writing letters to the governor, begging him to spare death-row inmates. Sarah, still coming to terms with her grief, has recently grown weary of serious issues and dreary causes; moreover, she's tired of Ellie's sad-sack personality and her self- absorbed, dysfunctional family. Sarah wants to grow up, figure out how to get Ben to like her the way she likes him, and have some fun for a change. In the course of this intelligent, touching novel, she does just that, guiltily jettisoning Ellie for a new best friend, and reaching out to her crush. More significantly, she forges a new understanding with her mother, and discovers that the love she felt for her father was real even though he wasn't the man she thought he was. Although the story offers no real surprises, the author's amusing first-person account and eye for detail keep the narrative consistently engaging; setting Pennebaker's novel apart from the pack is the very specific behaviors and warty humanness of the adroitly drawn characters. (Fiction. 11-14) -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.