Girlhearts

by Norma Fox Mazer

Book Overview

Mom held me around the waist, and I bent and kissed her. "I love you, honey," she said. "Love you, too." It was automatic. That's what I can't forget. When a heart attack takes her mom's life,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439458129
• ISBN13: 9780439458122
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

*~Girlhearts~*

In the book "Girlhearts", by Norma Fox Mazer, a 13 year old girl named Sarabeth loses both her mother and her father. She never really knew her father since he died in a car crash when she was little, but her mother recently died of a heart-attack at 29 years old. Sarabeth is devastated when she loses her mom. She has to figure out where to live, what to do, and how to move on with her life. She lives with her mom's friend for awhile, but not permanently. Sarabeth later comes across a decision of visiting her mother's family. I'd say that this book is very much worth reading. So many emotions run through you head while reading this book. You just want to keep reading on to see if Sarabeth will be OK and how her life will turn out. Reading this book is like trying to swim across the ocean and desperately get to the end to see if you'll make it.Norma Fox Mazer did very well writing the book "Girlhearts", and this book is now a book I am recommending to everyone who asks me what to read.

Amazing story!

When I bought this book, I didn't know how touching it would truly be. The main characters; Sarabeth, Leo, Pepper, Cynthia, Billy, Jane Silver, and many more, really get to you whether or not you can empatize with their pain. It's one of those situations where you think the main role in the story has been through enough already, maybe too much. But of course, the author has to give an upgrade on the suffering. Who would suspect a 29 year old mother to die of a heart attack? The sudden death changes Sarabeth's entire heart and soul, but she finds that everything happens for a reason, and maybe the truth of tragedy can shine through.

Loved It!!

This book was very well writen! It was the sequel to the equely good book, Silver! This book takes you through the problemes of Sarabeth after her young Mother died of a Heart atack. It almost seems real, with all of the characters and the problems. It takes you through all of her problems so that you feel as though you're there!!! IT is difficult to say but this left much room for a third book to make the double set a trilegy!!!

Title for Today- After September 11, 2001

I am a fan of all of NFM's books as she possesses that narrative drive which makes it hard to put any of them down, plus the characters, with all their quirks and problems are sympathetic, plus she deals with important social and emotional issues without any preaching. However, I just read GIRLHEARTS 12 days after the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Towers here in New York. I wish I could give this book to every young adult who experienced the unexpected death of someone they cared for, - whether it was in thier own family, the parent of a friend or firefighters at their local engine company. The manner in which Sarabeth Silver succombs to and then overcomes her grief at the sudden loss of her mother is likely to be illuminating and ultimately comforting to all who mourn. Come to think of it, all the kids in this city are mourning so I hope GIRLHEARTS becomes very widely available.

A Somewhat Satisfying Read

I purchased Girlhearts because I enjoyed the first book about Sarabeth Silver, 'Silver', when I was a young teenager. Although I am twenty-four now I thought it would be a nice afternoon read and something to keep for my baby daughter's library if the material turned out to be appropriate. However I had a problem with the chronology of these two books. In 'Silver' Sarabeth, the protagonist, is fourteen years old and starting a new high school. 'Girlhearts' is supposed to be Sarabeth one year later so logically she would be fifteen years old. But in 'Girlhearts' Sarabeth is only thirteen years old. This bothered me a bit. Other than that I liked the book, some of the conversation struck me as somewhat unrealistic for thirteen-year-olds, assuming all of Sarabeth's friends also became younger instead of older, but overall it was a good story with a satisfying ending. I also liked that the young girls in this story were not obsessed with boys, romance, sex, clothes, makeup, etc., --Sarabeth and her friends are generally wholesome characters and I would feel comfortable with my daughter reading this book when she is old enough.