November Blues/ Sharon Draper
Simon Pulse, 2009, 400 pp.
Fiction

A girl named November finds herself in some type of hole that she cannot get out of without help. She is a nice person but a bad influence when it comes to herself and loving someone deeply.

“Two months after Novembers boyfriend Josh dies of a hazing accident, her high school senior year she discovers she is pregnant.” It was hard for her to let her mom know that her own daughter was pregnant. The only people she told were a few of her close friends. She would go to the doctor by herself and one time with a friend, then she finally came out and her told her mother. It was the worst thing she could ever hear from her own daughter, her mother was heartbroken. November was upset at herself because she knew her life was coming to an end when this baby came. One of Josh’s good friends named Jericho stepped in to fill in on Josh’s absents. As her and her mother really sat and thought about this news her mother threw a lot that comes with the baby into Novembers mind. Her mother continued on and told November “You need to call Jericho and ask him to take you to the store to get all of the prices on diapers, formula, clothes, bottle, binkies, car seat, and stroller. She struggled to do it but she got up and did it. November didn’t want Josh’s parents to find out because she barely wanted to tell her own mother. Jericho and November ran into Josh’s parents at the store and November did all she could to hind her belly. Eventually they found out and wanted custody of the baby.

I feel like the author did a great job on the descriptions and really putting interesting parts in there. Yes, the author did achieve her purpose for writing it. This writing is very effective for people who can relate to it and have been in this problem or people who want to see what its like to live a life like that. Its just a really great book to read and to know, to have an idea on it. I would recommend this book because its very inspiring and fulfilling and she not afraid to share her life story.

The impression I left with this book is don’t get caught up in something you know you will have difficulty getting out. Also to keep this in mind that if u don’t like this book or not a goo fit don’t keep reading it abandon and go to another. This book is not for all people especially people who don’t like life stories like this one.