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If I Should Die Before I Wake

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This was among the first Lurlene McDaniel books I read as a child. Then last summer, at age 14, I discovered it again at my local library. The second time around, I loved the story even more. Deanne Vanervoort's mother planned for her to spend the summer hanging around the country club with a snobby rich boy, Judson Cortland III. The two teens couldn't stand each other. Thwarting her mother's hopes, Deanne took her father's suggestion to volunteer at the hospital were he worked as a surgeon. There, she fell in love with a cancer victim named Matt. His family accepted her the way her mother didn't. She enjoyed being with them and Matt. But is time running out for him? You'll never know unless you read the book! It reminded me of a later Lurlene McDaniel book, "Let Him Live". I highly reccomend both novels, they are very romantic and touching.

...The book grabbed me and stuck with me all these years. I connected with Deanna when she had to deal with her over bearing mother, her weight problem and the way she stood up for herself. I loved the way she first met Matt at the hospital, not knowing he was a patient. The way they became friends and then how beautifully their romance grew. Especially over labor day weekend at Matt's vacation home. It was every teenage girl's dream. I admired Deanna's strength, courage and her heart.

I just recently bought this book for my eleven year old daughter. This is a wonderful book. I strongly recommend it.

I bought this book when I was in the third grade while in Germany visiting my unlce. I had to have it, but hadn't even read the back cover. Eventually I read this book about a month after purchase. I loved it, and still do. Now being 16. I have written many book reaports over it and recamend it to every teenage girl like myself. If you want to read a good book this is the one.

This book kicks butt. It is one of her best

This book was so heart-wrenching. i love it a lot and have read it over and over and reccomend that u get your hands on a copy.

I didn't read much while I was in school. Really only things I was asked to read. I was in 9th grade at the time when a friend handed me this book and told me to read it. It was such a great book I couldn't put it down. The title stuck with me all theses years I have just bought it for my 11 year old daughter. I hope she enjoys it as much as I did.

My daughter read this book while in high school. One day I was looking for something to read to kill some time. I found that this book was so good I had to stay up and read the entire thing in one night. Very good book.

My 12 year old and 11 yr old love this series of books by Lurlene McDaniel. "If I Should Die Before I Wake" has you wanting to read ahead to find out what's happening in the lives of the characters. My daughter couldn't put it down. The main character,Deanne is a young girl who deals with the pressures and lonliness of being overweight. While volunteering she meets Matt, a 16 year old boy dying from cancer. It is an endearing story of confronting the fears and struggles of growing up and facing death.

This book has to be the most romantic and honest book of all time! I give "If I Should Die Before I Wake" (Lurlene McDaniel) five stars *****. Deanne's mother has her whole life figured out for her, while Deanne doesn't want to be the "star of social register" like her mother dreams. Deanne decides to do something useful, so she became a volunteer worker at the local hospital. At the hopsital, Deanne learns every important life lessons starting from friendship and sharing secrets with her best friend, to life and death relationships. When she makes friends with one of the cancer patients, it changes her life forever.

Author:Lurlene McDaniels

This story is about a girl named Deanne who mother wants her to work at a country club so she can work with the right people. The problem is she wants to volunteer at a hospital her father works at. She gets a job there and meets a boy named Matt, who has canser. She gets real close with Matt, who has cancer,but she gets scared he might die. So she find out that working at a hospital can be sad.