Hart, Beth Webb. Adelaide Piper, a novel.HART, Beth Webb. Adelaide Piper, a novel. WestBow Press, Thomas Nelson Thomas Nelson may refer to:
Gen-X debutante Adelaide Piper has an itch in her soul to leave Williamstown, SC and become a poet. Nathaniel Buxton University, an elite liberal arts college Liberal arts colleges are primarily colleges with an emphasis upon undergraduate study in the liberal arts. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise offers the following definition of the liberal arts as a, "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge in Virginia, represents her ticket to freedom. But freshman life at NBU NBU New Bulgarian University (Sofia, Bulgaria) NBU National Bank of Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine) NBU North Bengal University (India) NBU New Better than Used falls woefully woe·ful also wo·ful adj. 1. Affected by or full of woe; mournful. 2. Causing or involving woe. 3. Deplorably bad or wretched: short of Adelaide's expectations. Frat parties turn into drunken brawls, a hazing incident ends with tragic consequences, and Adelaide's date with the charming Devon Hunt culminates in rape. Up to this point, the novel reads like an absorbing coming-of-age story featuring a lively, independent main character. Then Adelaide experiences an abrupt and rather unconvincing religious conversion. Her newfound spiritual strength isn't always well integrated into a plot that includes helping a friend battle an eating disorder eat·ing disorder n. Any of several patterns of severely disturbed eating behavior, especially anorexia nervosa and bulimia, seen mainly in female teenagers and young women. and consoling another friend following an abortion. Two years after her own unreported rape, Aelaide intervenes in a younger girl's sexual assault, thereafter leading a campus crusade to end date rape date rape n. forcible sexual intercourse by a male acquaintance of a woman, during a voluntary social engagement in which the woman did not intend to submit to the sexual advances and resisted the acts by verbal refusals, denials or pleas to stop, and/or physical . The political agenda, combined with the Christian slant, becomes heavy-handed at times. Despite its limited appeal for non-religious teens, compelling characters combined with the realistic portrayal of college life and of the debutante tradition make this novel worth the purchase, particularly for church groups, and may spur group discussion about the perils of date rape. Jessica Swaim, Cataloger, Cherry Creek Sch., Denver, CO S--Recommended for senior high school students. |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion