Degrees of Guilt: Miranda's Story

by Melody Carlson

This new trilogy explores the events and choices leading up to the death of a classmate through the differing perspectives of three high school seniors. All feel a measure of guilt for their role in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842382836
• ISBN13: 9780842382830
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 15 to 19 years
• Grade Range: Grade 10 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Tragically realistic

Review by Gigi Hoffman Miranda Sanchez is (what she thinks) a boring high school senior--honor student, editor of the school paper, athlete. She decides to stop being so stuffy and loosen up a little. Her mom, who prefers to be called Shelby, is always telling Miranda to lighten up and have some fun, so Miranda sets out to do that. She begins drinking, starts going to parties, and has fun with her good friend, Kyra. However, Sammy, Miranda's friend and kind-of crush, objects to Miranda's new partying phase. Miranda is confident she has everything under control. She's practically a grown-up, after all. But her partying leads to a big disaster with Sammy, leaving her distraught and heart-broken. In Carlson's book, the story is told from Miranda's side. The writing seems straight from a teen's perspective and tragically realistic. I really felt Miranda's pain and wished that the ending could have been different, but like Miranda discovers, sometimes life doesn't work that way.

Outstanding trilogy

The notion of three different books by three different authors about the same story, each from a different character's perspective is new to me. I'd enjoyed the Diary series, and thought it was worth picking up the three books just to see how well the concept worked. I actually thought the books by the other two authors were better than this, but only by a small margin. They are all excellent, and reading the same story three different times never got boring because they are all so different, while remaining consistent. In many ways it's so true of life - we really don't know what's going on in other people's heads, especially when it comes to subterfuge and illicit behavior. Three different authors, three different characters, three different styles, one terrific story.

Oh my gosh....

This books is very very awesome. Miranda is a supposed good-goody, and when she's told to "lighten up," she does so. She takes drugs, throws outrageous parties and gets drunk. When a very vlose friend of hers dies at one of her parties, she's guilt tricken and wants to committ suicide. Does she do it? Read and find out.It's an amazing book that a person should read.