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A Dance for Three

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Dance For Three by Louise Plummer was a fantastic book. The book started off slow, but it didn't take long before I developed a feeling of friendship and concern for this fifteen year old girl. Hannah and her boyfriend Milo find themselves in a situation. Hannah is pregnant. After telling Milo the news he denies it, hits her several times and leaves her abandoned in an alley. All of the problems that Hannah is having to face, such as the pregnancy, the death of her father, and the sickness of her mother causes her to be mentally unstable forcing a neighbor to commit her into a institution. Hannah struggles with the facts, but later realizes that things will work out if she begins coping with her problems rather than running away from them. She works hard with the help of her friends and the therapist to heal from all of the hurt that has built up inside of her. Finally, Hannah has able to put the pieces of her life back together and finds a new self identity and happiness. This novel is a great example of how a teen deals with the reality of a pregnancy. I would recommend it to anyone that can relate or simply just enjoys reading realistic fiction.

This is one of the best books I've read. i thought it was really good. Louise Plummer really makes the characters come to life! when i heard about this book i really had to read it. Its about a 15 year old girl who gets pregnant and her boyfriend leaves her. It just tells about what happens. When your reading this book you really dont want to put it down. it has so much suspense. its a really great book. i usually dont read books all that fast but, i started to read this one and all i wanted to do was read. i never wanted to put it down. thats how good this book was for me. the characters in the book seem real and it makes you believe your actually there and everything. Ive never read any of her other books but i think i might just read another and see how good they are. since the girl is about my age it actually teaches you a lot about life. I think most people would like this book so you should maybe just try it out!

Not very many people face and recognize how many teenagers face pregnancy. But Plummer has told so trufully a story of one of the many teenagers that are told that they are pregnant. I read this book in two days because I couldn't put it down, not even to eat and sleep! I love how Plummer has told this story with not only two peoples point of views, but three. This book is truly amazing!

Although this book is at times "over the top," (Hannah's father is deceased, her mother is an agoraphobic and Hannah thinks that she and her boyfriend will live happily ever after with their baby and his parents) it is a good read which adolescent girls (in particular) will enjoy. As an English teacher, I know that my students would enjoy this book and its issues: teenage pregnancy, not being able to handle the pressures of the modern world, coming to terms with reality and coming of age.

At age 15, Hannah Ziebarth discovers she is pregnant, but thinks nothing of it. She believes she will tell Milo , the babys' father, and they will live as a happy family. But when Milo rejects Hannah and her baby, it sends her into a psychotic state of mind. When she is sent to the psychiatric unit, they help her with her struggle to recovery, dealing with her pregnancy and her emotional problems. This experience totally chnages Hannahs' perspectives on her life ahead of her. I really liked this book. It will keep you wondering and you'll never believe Hannahs' final decisions.

I Will always remember this book. I 'm 15 years old, and I'm not much of a reader but when I saw this book I was in love with it. Louise Plummer captures the life of a 15 year old girl so well. This book will make you laugh, make you cry and even bring the characters to life. If there was a Hannah I wish I was able to talk to her because she makes you pretty much just want to be her friend and be there to help her. The book changed how I viewed teenage parenting alot and now I understand what some unlucky people have to go through. It is about a girl who is 15 years old and is very much in love with her boyfriend and vice versa. Hannah finds out shes pregnant and since her boyfriend "loves" her so much she thinks he will be happy when she tells him the news. Well thats not what exactly happend...see when she told him he hits her and When her mother finds out she thinks Hannah is nuts because she also tells her mom she thinks her boyfriend milo will marry her. Because of the shocking reactions she got from all these people who she loved and her fathers recent death she became temporarily insane and ended up having the baby in the hospital. Her crazy roomate "poppy seed" help eachother through their problems and she slowly returns back to her normal self.

After reading A Dance for Three, by Louise Plummer I felt like Hannah Ziebarth (main character) was one of my friends. I really enjoyed the way the author wrote this story, as if I am standing right next to Hannah experiencing what she's going through with her. Milo is a very frustrating character (plays the part of a former boyfriend) along with Milo's family, besides his brother Roman, because they are all stuck up and stay only in their business. They do things only if it makes their family look good. Overall I recommend this book to everyone, especially teenage girls because it shows the reality life of a teenage pregnant girl who feels she's in love with teenage boy that eventually wants nothing to do with her.

After her fathers death her mother hasn't quite got back to herself. Ok, so face it! Hannah is now the "mommy" in her family. She cooks, cleans and manages to be a full time student.

"Watch over my baby, daddy. Watch over him. If you are there, watch over him. Are you there daddy?" At the age of 15, Hannah Ziebarth has found herself in a tight situation. She's pregnant. After Hannah tells Milo he got her pregnant it was an immediate blow to the face. Soon after shes left there with blood dripping down all over her uniform from work. Hannah really looses it when she sneaks into the back of Milo's 4-runner and catches him having sex with his ex-girlfriend. Caught up between her emotions and reality, Hannah learns a valuable lesson. Not all people are who they seem to be.

A Dance For Three by Louise Plummer was a fantastic book. It's a glance of reality for those who think everything in everyone's life is "perfect." I enjoyed reading this and I think that this is one of those books that you just can't put down.

I just finished reading the book A Dance for Three, written by Louise Plummer. This book is about a young girl, Hannah Ziebarth, who loses her virginity to her first love, Milo Fabiano, and gets pregnant. On top of that, she has been through a lot of changes in the past two years. Her father suddenly passed away and now her menatlly ill mother won't leave the house or pick up the phone. Hannah is left to deal with taking care of her mom, the house, herself, and pretty soon, a new baby. This is a lot of pressure for a 15 year old to deal with and one night after Milo denies being the father of the baby and beats her up, she has a "psychotic episode." Before she knows it, she's shiped off to the psych ward of the local hospital. There she meets "Poppy Seed," her drunken roommate. Together they try to survive hospitalization and help eachother understand the meaning of life. This book deals with teen pregnancy, mental illnesses, love, friendship and family. i thought it was an excellent book because it discussed some issues teens deal with today, and the author used wonderful imagery to help you understand the emotions of the story. i think the plot was well devloped and never once did I not understand what was going on. I really enjoyed reading this book and felt that many teenagers could realte. I strongly reccommend this book.

I really liked this book, because it showed a young girl that finds out she's pregnant and how she deals with it, and all the problems that arise from it; like how her boyfriend doesn't believe her and leaves her, her mom is basically crazy, and she misses her dad who is deceased. She is also faced with a question on what she is going to do with the baby. I also think she really finds out who she is and what she wants out of life. It was really good and it was based in Salt Lake City. It was a very good book.