If I Asked You Would You Stay [Mass Market Paperback]

Eve Bunting (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1987

When Crow, a seventeen-year-old loner, rescues a troubled young girl from the ocean, his jealously guarded solitary existence is threatened by his first awakening to love.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; 1st PB Edition edition (April 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0694056014
• ISBN-13: 978-0694056019
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,101,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Eve Bunting has written more than 200 books for children, many of which can be found in libraries around the world. Her other Clarion titles for very young readers include My Big Boy Bed, which was also illustrated by Maggie Smith, and Little Bear's Little Boat, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. She lives in Pasadena, California.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars STALKED ALONG THE BOARDWALK!, June 3, 1998

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Plume45 "kitka12345" (Westchester, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: IF I ASKED U WOULD U STAY PB (Paperback)

This is a more adult-teenager story about two 17-year-olds who have run away (separately) and are trying to live on their own. One is seeking love; the other is fleeing it. The title is long, awkward and revealing. Set in a coastal resort in southern California, this book presents two lonely young people who meet when He rescues Her from the ocean. She fears pursuit from a vicious man while he cherishes a hopeless lost love.

His hideout is unusual and interesting: a hidden room above an abandoned carousel along a popular boardwalk. Can these two kids make it on their own, or even in tandem? Can he protect her from her Present? Can she help him overcome his obsession with the Past, which is not even his own? Very adult themes and situations, so this is not a book for elementary children.

Eve Bunting is a wonderful author whom I respect, for she deals with many serious social issues: --Teenage Runaways --Homeless People who live in airports --Orphan trains which transplant the unwanted children of NY city to midwestern farms --chemical poisoning of the land --responsible babysitting

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If I Asked You Would You Stay, February 25, 2000

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luke (Iowa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: IF I ASKED U WOULD U STAY PB (Paperback)

In the novel, If I Asked You Would You Stay, there were two teens wondering and looking for their place in life. They have never met, but soon after they do, they fall in love. If I Asked You Would You Stay was a very good book. It was interesting and if I had to rate this book, I would rate it 8/10. (Ten being the highest and one being the lowest.) Although in some places it does move at a slow pace. Even though it moves at a slow pace, I recommend this book for anyone who likes to read adventure novels, but also for the people who like a little bit of romance in their novels.

5.0 out of 5 stars In love with this book, June 19, 2010

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A. Moore - See all my reviews
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This review is from: If I Asked You Would You Stay (Mass Market Paperback)

I had been searching for this book for forever. I know it must sound corny but I had ran across it in middle school and had fallen in love with the story. Its not so much a real mushy love story, its more of the kind that keeps you on the edge of your seat at times, and makes you want to keep turning the pages. Even as I read it now, and even though I know the story, reading it over years later, still leaves me interest and i dont want to stop turning the pages cause I remember how much of a good book it was then and im so happy to own it and able to read it at my own leisure. So im very satisfied with it cause ive always wanted to own it so personally for me, im extremely happy with my purchase.