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Why Did She Have To Die? |
Author: Lurlene McDaniel
Published: 2005-01 |
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 Best Book Ever
Why Did She Have To Die is an outstanding book. The book teaches that it's not the end of the world if some one close to us dies, its not the end of the world. An example is when Elly finds out her sister died, she was mad because her parents lied to her. Elly's parents had the funeral while she was still in a coma, after the car accident.
Elly Thought that she was going to be sad forever, but not everything was bad.
This is a great book for people that have lost someone close to them to read
NannerGinny's book review on Why Did She Have to Die?
Why Did She Have To Die- Lurlene McDaniel
This is probably the most realistic book I've read so far by McDaniel. She is a fantastic author with stories dealing with different sorts of tragedies. This book is filled with realistic emotions people face in these situations.
Elly Rowan is a plain, cute girl but her sister, Kathy, is a lot to mount up to. Kathy Rowan is your idea of perfect if there were such a thing. Elly was and is still jealous of her sister's "perfection." Elly's sister Kathy dies in a car crash, leaving Elly as an only daughter. She has a best friend and a crush. Will these people draw closer due to sympathy or will they remain true friends? Read this book and see how Elly deals with her sister before and after her death everyday.
After reading this I found myself having more respect for my siblings instead of jealousy. I can't imagine losing 1 of my 3 sisters or my only brother. I know I would struggle a lot if one of them died. This book is an eye-opener!
Natalie Nye
A Beautiful & Sensitive Story
Kathy Rowan, a bright 14-year-old is held up as the sterling example of what a daughter and sister should be. Her sister Elly, one year younger resents this and the way their peers flock to Kathy.
A bright, popular boy named Russ Canton takes an interest in Kathy as most of the local boys do. Since he is older and has a car, he is not one the girls' father would approve. Kathy, a school leader takes an active role in planning the spring dance and tricks Elly into participating. As they leave the meeting, Russ offers them a ride home. He does not pay attention to his driving and barely misses a child on her bike and crashes the car, killing Kathy.
Russ emerges unharmed; Elly is in a coma for a week and has a severely broken leg. Once discharged from the hospital, she limps back into life and even more reluctantly into school. Her anger at Kathy and her popularity and death escalate; she vandalizes a bathroom by smearing makeup all over the place; she trips a boy who slighted Kathy and is hostile to the one boy who makes overtures to her.
Family counseling and a chance to discuss Kathy's death and make decisions about dispensing her personal effects as well as making friends with the boy who extended the olive branch to her help empower Elly to cope with her loss.
 An Old Favorite
This is probably one of the first Lurlene McDaniels I ever read when I was a kid and when Darby Creek started reissuing her older novels, I kept hoping that they would print this one again. Glad to know I was right---it's a story about a younger sister who is jealous of her older sister and what happens in their family when the eldest sister dies in a car accident. I think that Mrs. McDaniel handled the subject very well without being too maudlin or not sensitive enough.
Heart wrenching!
This was the first of Lurlene Mcdaniels Books that I read. I absolutly loved it, and cryed several times throughout it. I would recomend this book and any other book of lurlene's to anyone
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