The Last April Dancers

by Jean Thesman

Book Overview

Sixteen-year-old Cat St. John tries to come to terms with the growing evidence of her father's mental illness and his eventual suicide.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380706148
• ISBN13: 9780380706143
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Awesome Book!! I loved it!!

I read the book this past month and i love it. I am only fourteen but i found that it seemed like you could relate to the way that cat was living. I could feel for her and yet see how her mom and grama would try to hide it. It is not like most books and i love that about it!! I loved it and am doing a idependent novel study on it for school!! I would love to read more Jean Thesman books in the future.

About the Author

Hallo,I am Eileen Makori. I have read a couple of books by Jean and I love them. Sorry for using this opportunity to ask a question. I want to reccomend this writer to many people,but first I want to find out her brief autobiography. Please could you e-mail me. I want to know when she was born and where she took her studies. Thank you for this information.Sincerely, Eileen

Great!

I read this book about a year ago and have reread it a few times since then. It was an amazing book and I recommend it to anyone. Cat is an amazing character that I could relate to because she is more like an actual teenage girl, unlike characters in alot of books where they always seem the same whatever book you read. This book is extremley well written.

Wonderful!

It has been about 10 years since I read this book, but when I read it in 5th grade, I thought it was wonderful...I have not reread it since, but would love to read it to see if it still touches my heart like it did then. I remember it being a very heart-touching, tear-jerking book.