For Better, For Worse, Forever [Mass Market Paperback]

Lurlene McDaniel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 11, 1997

In this companion to Till Death Do Us Part, grief-stricken April Lancaster is devastated by the loss of Mark Gianni, and she and her parents have gone to the island of St.  Croix for an extended vacation.  One day on the beach, April meets bitter, lonely 18-year-old Brandon Benedict.  Brandon blames his father for his mother's recent suicide.  April is still trying to come to terms with her own grief.  The two get very close...but April doesn't tell Brandon about her medical problems.  Then April's headaches return, and she and her parents quickly fly back to New York, leaving an angry, bewildered Brandon behind.  April is dying.  Can she bring herself to tell Brandon that he'll soon lose another person he loves?

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In this companion to Till Death Do Us Part, grief-stricken April Lancaster is devastated by the loss of Mark Gianni, and she and her parents have gone to the island of St.  Croix for an extended vacation.  One day on the beach, April meets bitter, lonely 18-year-old Brandon Benedict.  Brandon blames his father for his mother's recent suicide.  April is still trying to come to terms with her own grief.  The two get very close...but April doesn't tell Brandon about her medical problems.  Then April's headaches return, and she and her parents quickly fly back to New York, leaving an angry, bewildered Brandon behind.  April is dying.  Can she bring herself to tell Brandon that he'll soon lose another person he loves?

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Laurel Leaf (August 11, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553570889
• ISBN-13: 978-0553570885
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #318,949 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lurlene McDaniel is known for her poignant inspirational novels. She lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excelent book!, March 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: For Better, For Worse, Forever (Mass Market Paperback)

The book For Better, for Worse, Forever is such a good book! I recommend this book to every teenager and even to my teachers! I especially would like for my best friend Rachel to read this book, I know she would love it! The setting of this story is both New York and St. Croix in the Carribean duuring the summer time. The main conflict of this book is weather or not Aprils tumor will become active again and when and where she will die. The protagonist is April and the antagonist would be the brain tumor April has. I really sudgest that you go out and read this book!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Book Ever, December 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: For Better, For Worse, Forever (Mass Market Paperback)

For better, For worse, Forever by: Lurlene McDaniels Lurlene McDaniels is a young adult writer. She writes books about teen tragedy's and love stories. The books she writes are very touching. The book for better, For worse, Forever is about a girl named Mark and he had Cystic Fibrosis. Mark loved to drive racecars he just couldn't get enough of them. He loved them so much they killed him because of his sickness. April is heart broken from the death of Mark. After Marks death Aprils parents take her to the island of St. Croix. Her parents figure if she is not at home she will get over Marks death faster. While down in St. Croix April meets a handsome boy named Brandon! Brandon tries to get closer to April but she won't let him. April figures if she gets closer to Brandon, Mark won't forgive her for it. April starts getting sicker day by day, and starts to fall in love with Brandon. April in the end gets so sick she has to go back to New York. While in New York she visits all her friends and then after about a month she is so sick her doctor says she will die soon. April doesn't want to die in New York and wants to go back to St. Croix. The book is very good but if you want to know the end you have to read it for yourself.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Book Ever, July 18, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: For Better, For Worse, Forever (Mass Market Paperback)

This Book is my favourite Lurlene mc Daniel novel and is the novel that got me started and hooked on books by Lurlene Mc Daniel.this book is the most thought provoking novel by Lurlene Mc Daniel and my personal favourite.This book is about a girl named April Lancaster who is depressed by the loss of her fiancèe Mark who had cistic fibrosis and died.In this novel Aprils parents decide that it would be best for April who has a brain tumor to go on a family vacation and April can pick anywhere she wants in the world to go.So April decides to go to the beautiful island of St.Croix.When she gets there she gathers the attion of the remarkablly Handsome Brandon.he sees April as the love of his life but April cant handle that right now and so Brandon will have to settle for just being friends.Read this exciting novel to find out the amasing ending.