Saving Jessica

By Lurlene McDaniel

Book Overview

Jessica McMillian and Jeremy Travino are a perfect couple. But now Jessica has been diagnosed as having kidney failure. She is on dialysis three days a week and is so depressed that she's not sure she... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553567217
• ISBN13: 9780553567212
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Laurel Leaf
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.6" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

Filled with Emotions

When reading Saving Jessica, you will be touched with a lot of emotions. Emotions that you didn't know existed. When you know someone that's in the hospital dying, or very ill, you will do anything to save them. Anything to being there in the hospital sitting next to them letting them know how much you love them to donating a body part. In this story, that is what Jeremy does for his girlfriend Jessica. Jessica was diagnosed with kidney failure. In order for Jessica to live healthy and happily, she needs to get a new kidney. When her boyfriend Jeremy finds out, he will do anything to help her. Even if it gets his family into a huge fight. Jeremy decides to donate his kidney to Jessica. His father disagrees with his choice, and Jeremy decides to take it up with the courts. The catch is, Jeremy's father is a lawyer. And Jeremy has no chance in winning. Jeremy was forced to move out of his house because if all the fighting that went on. But after a long time Jeremy's parents missed him too much and wants him to move back in. Jeremy's parents have finally decided to let Jeremy do what he wants to his body. He did what he wanted to and that was donating his kidney to his love Jessica. When I read this book I was touched by emotions I didn't even know existed. And the way you will feel when you have read this book, you will want to go out and donate a kidney to someone who needs one.

Saving Readers

Lurlene McDaniel has gotten more and more children and teenagers interested in reading. She makes kids want to read. In Saving Jessica, Jeremy and Jessica make a perfect high-school couple. But soon Jessica receives news that she has kidney failure. She has to go to dailysis three days a week. Aside from Jeremy, she feels that she has no reason to live. She doesn't want to live on a machine she says. Jeremy had once been in a car accident with his older brother, his older brother had died but Jeremy had walked away without a scratch. Jeremy feels that there is a reason for everything and his reason for being spared is to save Jessica. He decideds to try and donate a kidney. Which means going against his parents wishes. And he's not eighteen yet, so his parents decide what is going to happen. How far will Jeremy go to save Jessica? Read and find out. I highly recommend this book to anyone who believes in true love, and doing whatever it takes to make them happy.

This is a caring book

In Saving Jessica by Lurlene McDaniel Jessica, a girl with a kidney problem, needs a kidney transplant or she will be on a machine for the rest of her life. Jessica decides that she wants a kidney transplant so she will not be on a machine. Jessica's boyfriend, Jeremy, is the only match for the transplant. Jeremy's parents don't want him t do the transplant because they think that they will lose their only living child. So Jeremy takes them to court because he wants to go through with the transplant. This book is for young adults. I like this book because it shows how much the characters care for each other in order to save one person.

It's one of the best books I have read.

I thought that this book was good. The love that Jeremy had for Jessica was amazing. He risked losing his parents for her. if you have not read this book I would recommend that you read it.

NL-S Approved Book

Lurlene McDaniel's book, Saving Jessica, is one of the best books I've ever read that has dealt with being diagnosed with a deadly disease at a young age. The quality of this book is exceptional. She tells about the hardships of growing up with a disease that may or may not end someone's life. She also tells how families deal with pain of having a disease in their life and/or losing the person that had the disease.The setting of Saving Jessica is familiar to me. It takes place in a hospital in Washington D.C. and in a small suburb of Virginia. The plot was everything from dramatic, when Jessica was diagnosed with having kidney failure, to romantic, when Jeremy, her boyfriend, gave up everything that Jessica couldn't have and offered to donate his kidney to save her life. The plot of this story caught my attention extremely well. At first I thought that Jessica would die because she wasn't doing well on dialysis and she had a few relatives to donate her their kidney and none of them were compatible. So Jeremy went through all the testing and found that he was very compatible. The doctors couldn't believe it.I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a good book. It is easy to read and is very well written.It shows how families can be torn apart and how they can be brought closer together by diseases.