A Song for Jeffrey

by Constance M. Foland

Book Overview

Lonely eleven-year-old Dodie meets Jeffrey, who has muscular dystrophy, and discovers what it is like to have a real friend, even as his condition worsens. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562478494
• ISBN13: 9781562478490
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

A Magnificent Book about everyday Situations!

A Song for Jeffrey is a magnificent book. It talks about things that happen everyday. It was a little sad when you heard about what Jeffery went though all the time with muscular dystrophy. This book proves that all people, even with diseases, can have many talents. I'd encourage anybody, even adults, to read this great book!

Emmotionally memorable...a true pleasure!

In my About You page, I once said emmotional stories were favorites. The statement doesn't change with this book. Not unlike MICK HARTE WAS HERE by Barbra Park (another favorite of simmalar gerene), it tells the tale of a preteen girl coping with many things. This book, however, is multilayered. In MICK, Phoebe copes only with death, while SONG's Dodie copes with rejection, friendship, death, and starting over.Also, the book is truthful about handicaps... it doesn't hide some things and show some others. It shows everything at one of the higher levels it can be shown at. Jeffrey is like many, including me, and Dodie reminds me of a few special friends.A touching novel that comes highly reccomended!ALSO RECCOMENDED: Mick Harte Was Here by Barbra Park

Realisticly Wonderful!

This book is the most honest book I have read about people with handicaps. It made me cry, even, because I knew even though this was fiction, the same thing could happen for real... And that a life could be jepordized in one instant. And then that his or her friends would be depressed in a way they had never been depressed before.... A five-star first-rate novel, a must read!

A Song for Jeffrey

I laughed and cried through this book; the characters had me sold right away, and the story proved my instincts right. I like an author who makes me feel the emotions of the characters, but who stays in command of the story so the emotions don't carry me away. This author did just that.

I really liked these characters. They're funny!!

These kids are not perfect children from perfect families. They're funny and they're real.I liked them enormously and found myself laughing and yes, crying with them. They could be my kids.It's sad but ultimately very satisfying. I hope she writes more. Thank you, Miss Foland