If I Love You

by M.E. Kerr

Book Overview

Stein, the new boy at Cayuta High, is nicknamed Doomed by classmates who never guess he'll soon be the school star. He invents a newspaper called REMOTE, with ads everyone wants to imitate. Before... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440943205
• ISBN13: 9780440943204
• Release Date: February 1974
• Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

A Teen?s Take On Life & Love

Everything for 16-year-old Alan Bennett has been perfect so far. He's very popular, good-looking, and is now going steady with the beautiful senior, Leah Pennington. But all that changes when Duncan "Doomed" Stein, a gangly, homely loner, moves to Cayuta, New York. At first, he doesn't seem a threat to anyone, least of all Alan. But that's before he publishes his own newspaper, "Remote", and attracts all the "lonely hearts" at the high school with the anonymous dating ads. Soon everyone at Cayuta High is no longer interested in going steady with each other, but trying to find a more meaningful alternative to love. Alan and Leah, being the ideal couple, seem immune to this fad, until Alan reads the the love letter Doomed has given Leah. Then nothing makes sense to Alan anymore. Besides losing his girlfriend to the biggest dork in school, he has to struggle with the sudden reappearance of his deadbeat father, the crush he has on Doomed's beautiful mother, and the secret affair she has with Alan's football coach.Although this book is geared more towards teens, it might be a little too deep for some younger readers. At least, when I was that age, I wasn't puzzling over the mysteries of love. But if you like teen stories that are more intellectual than most, then you might give this one a try.

If i love you am i trapped forever? - VR

This book deals with relationships and makes me feel secure in the fact that it'll be okay when you lose something or someone you thought you'd have forever. It made me re-think and re-evaluate my own morals.

IF I LOVE YOU, IM I TRAPPED FOREVER?

IF I LOVE YOU, I AM TRAPPED FOREVER? If I Love You, I Am Trapped Forever? Is a great book. I highly recommend this book for many reasons. For instance, this book consists of life issues that grow though adolescence. With the problems of adolescence present in the book the advice to deal with such problems are present also. This is great for young readers looking for advise that may not be provided for them from other sources. This book isn't only a book yet it is a reference. The book strengths were from relationship problems to family. This book has it all. This book keeps the readers attention. The way the book was written was very interesting and different. It frequently switched off from first person to third. This doesn't confuse most readers yet, it keeps you keyed in for more. It focused mainly on teenage male problems; which is great considering many books already written for women. It went in detail with the problem divorce and having a one parent home. That is a great topic, due to many books at that time not talking about it. The book weaknesses are very minimum yet there are some. Firstly, the book needed much more detail about certain situations, which were presented. Secondly, it has the disadvantage of losing the readers' attention by not getting to the point. The book gave u hints leading to the situation. That is very confusing and should've been changed. Thirdly, the subject If I Love You, I Am Trapped Forever? Was mentioned at the near end and wasn't fully expressed. It should've have been written earlier and with more detail since it is the title of the book. From strengths to weaknesses I still highly recommend this book for many people. It is ideal for teenage boys, teenage girls, and parents of teenagers. For teenagers it makes it interesting and is used as a advisor. The book can be used as an advisor for such reasons that it talks mainly about common teenage problems. That only makes a teenage keyed in. However, for parents, it gives them a chance to look back at their youth. With being able to look back it makes you realize how the problems have changed from past day to present. With that it opens many parents eyes on how to assist there children on dealing with such problems. It also makes parents aware of such new situations and how to deal with them. To teenagers, parents, and readers; take this book home a read it now. It is filled with action, suspense, happiness, sadness, fun and love. This book deserves a high mention due to those reasons. ANDREANNA HAKOPIAN

TEENAGE PROBLEMS

If I Love You, I Am Trapped Forever? Is a great book. I highly recommend this book for many reasons. For instance, this book consists of life issues that grow though adolescence. With the problems of adolescence present in the book the advice to deal with such problems are present also. This is great for young readers looking for advise that may not be provided for them from other sources. This book isn't only a book yet it is a reference. The book strengths were from relationship problems to family. This book has it all. This book keeps the readers attention. The way the book was written was very interesting and different. It frequently switched off from first person to third. This doesn't confuse most readers yet, it keeps you keyed in for more. It focused mainly on teenage male problems; which is great considering many books already written for women. It went in detail with the problem divorce and having a one parent home. That is a great topic, due to many books at that time not talking about it. The book weaknesses are very minimum yet there are some. Firstly, the book needed much more detail about certain situations, which were presented. Secondly, it has the disadvantage of losing the readers' attention by not getting to the point. The book gave u hints leading to the situation. That is very confusing and should've been changed. Thirdly, the subject If I Love You, I Am Trapped Forever? Was mentioned at the near end and wasn't fully expressed. It should've have been written earlier and with more detail since it is the title of the book. From strengths to weaknesses I still highly recommend this book for many people. It is ideal for teenage boys, teenage girls, and parents of teenagers. For teenagers it makes it interesting and is used as a advisor. The book can be used as an advisor for such reasons that it talks mainly about common teenage problems. That only makes a teenage keyed in. However, for parents, it gives them a chance to look back at their youth. With being able to look back it makes you realize how the problems have changed from past day to present. With that it opens many parents eyes on how to assist there children on dealing with such problems. It also makes parents aware of such new situations and how to deal with them. To teenagers, parents, and readers; take this book home a read it now. It is filled with action, suspense, happiness, sadness, fun and love. This book deserves a high mention due to those reasons.

One of my teenage favorites!

(Spoiler Alert)I loved this book as a teenager. I am so sad it is out of print. The reason this book was so special to because it showed me how painful the concept of popularity in school was, and the person who held it could also lose it quickly. It was a good companion for the geeky reader I was. The hero or the anti-hero of the book was a tall socially inept Jewish boy, who through his writing, creativity and his newspaper seem to change the way the school and people within perceived themselves. What a concept! Through writing you can win. But the in retrospect, the changes in Doom when he became popular also is a moral in power and corruption, yet at the same time, a call for the goodness in high school activities too. The boy who never played basketball and was above all the high school social things, falls in love, becomes a high school boy too. His intellectual demeanor slowly fades as he is more accepted by his classmates. The book questions, what is real within us versus the front we want to be perceived by. Of all of ME Kerr's books I read, I think this one was the best in bring out the concept of how impermanent life in high school was, and no matter how much you liked it or not, it would be over and your life will start a new. Anyway, all I can say is, this is another of ME Kerr's great books about life, and the complexities of it in a high school context, yet never allowing it to go too deep, dark and still celebrates youthfulness. Buy it when it comes around again.