Sharing Susan

By Eve Bunting

Book Overview

Susan knows bad things are happening at home but she isn't prepared for the shocking secret her parents are hiding. Twelve years after being born, the hospital suspects Susan may have been given to the wrong parents, and now her biological parents want her back.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064404307
• ISBN13: 9780064404303
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Trophy Pr
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.5" x 5.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Sharing Susan By Eve Bunting

Sharing Susan , just maybe one of my all time favorite novels by Eve Bunting. This parent and child -fiction deserves a high score of ten, due to its heart-touching theme and unvarnished truth.Twelve year old Susan is shocked to find that she was swicthed with another baby in the hospital and that the parents who have raised her may have to give her up to her true biological parents. Buntings use of practical detail is superb, there is absolutely no one who will not find this novel to be a pleasure. If you liked Buntings IF I Asked You, Would You Stay? or Spike Lee's film "Losing Issiah" you'll love this book .Guaranteed!

Switched At Birth

In "Sharing Susan", twelve-year-old Susan Moretti is troubled by the "Big Worry", her name for any new issue in her life, which is currently her parents. They're generally very open with her, but their sudden secrecy has Susan upset and panicked. She suspects her parents are either getting a divorce or have lost their jobs and they have to move. However, Susan doesn't realize it's much worse.Her parents sit her down one evening and lay it all out. Susan was switched with another baby girl at the hospital when she was born, and now Susan's real parents, the Stobbels, want a chance to prove if she's their daughter or not.The Stobbels' had discovered Marlene Stobbel wasn't their own daughter when they were rejected as donors after Marlene was hit by a truck and went into a coma. She eventually died. Afterwards, the Stobbels contacted the hospital where Marlene and Susan were born at and got in touch with the Morettis.Susan, naturally, doesn't want a new family (two new parents and a four-year-old brother). She's afraid they want to take her away from her parents forever, but her parents assure her nothing that drastic will happen, although they don't know that for sure.Everything depends upon the results of the blood tests, which confirm Susan is the Stobbel's daughter. As a result, they want to meet Susan before eventually taking custody of her. Her parents are agreeable to the meeting--after all, there's nothing they can do otherwise--, but Susan is scared and resists it. She tries to be as difficult and callous as possible so the Stobbels won't want her. She even shaves off her eyebrows to hide any resemblance she has with her real father. (They both have a hairless line through their right eyebrow.) This doesn't seem to change their mind about wanting her, and Susan realizes she can't go on forever resisting her new family."Sharing Susan" is a great book for preteens. If you like books about mistaken families, you might also like "The Face on the Milk Carton" by Caroline B. Cooney (kidnapping).

SHARING SUSAN

Sharing Susan is about a girl who was switched at the hospital when she was first born with another girl. The reason why Alice's biological parents came back to get her is because the other girl was hit by a truck and was killed. They found out because of the blood tests.Now Alice's real parents want her back,and Alicce doesn;tt want to go.

This was a very exciting book. There was a lot of action.

Susan is a 12 year old girl who was switched at the hospital. She has lived her whole life as an only child with two really great parents. All of the sudden her life is rushing down hill. It turns out her real parents live in Laguna Niguel. They find out that the Stobbles are Susan's parents when the Stobble's daughter, Marlene, dies in a car accident. Susan might have to go live with the Stobbles and leave her parents and friends! I really recommend this book to people of all ages.

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I found this book very good! Mrs. Bunting has a style that makes her unique!! You must read this book!!