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With You and Without You (An Apple Paperback)

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This is one of my all-time favorite books, and this is arguably Ms. Martin's best novel ever. I cried and cried reading this wonderful story, mostly because I lost my beloved grandmother to cancer. I identified with every struggle the O'Hara family faced in the wake of the death of their father, mostly I identified with Liza and Hope, who mourned in different ways. I can't recommend this simple but powerful book enough. I don't care how old you are. It's worth it.

It has been a long time since I have read this book, so I don't remember a lot of the details,but this is one of my favorite books. As a former teacher I tend to be very selective about books for teenagers. This is a great story. It is also very realistic. Of course, I have a personal interest in the story - my mother has cardiomyopathy, the same disease that the main character's father has.

I read this book years ago, as well as all of the other books by Ann M. Martin. However, this one was my all time favorite. I gave it away to someone and now I wish I had it for my own future children. I really think this book should go back into print because it is one that so many children would love to read. It is truly excellent.

WIth You and Without You is an excellent book. It's about a girl named Liza O'Hara and she's worried that things will never be the same again, because her dad dies and she doesn't want to celebrate christmas and visit her dads grave. she doesn't want to move out of 25 Bayberry because that house has been in her family for over two hundred years, she doesn't want to move because she won't have her own room,and her brother brent is worrired he won't have enough monet to go to college. But the school gives him a scholarship.The O'Hara's life does get better and It'll be the samewith their dad or without their dad.

I ordered this book because of the summary of it. I read it and it was really good, made me cry. Not just for teenagers in my opinion.

I haven't read this book for about thirteen or fourteen years, since right after my father passed away (which occurred when I was ten). I found that it described my own emotions perfectly...except I tried to shut mine down. I remember after reading it, I hadn't cried for my father at all...but it made me cry, and that's when the healing began.
The main character, Liza, lost her father around the same age I lost mine. He apparently passed away of heart failure, same as mine. We also had to move...but not just to a different neighborhood; we moved out of state. Many of the same struggles were present: guilt, anger, sorrow beyond description...and of course the feeling that other than my siblings, I was the only one with that kind of pain. Liza experiences the same things.
I would recommend this book to anyone, but especially for those between the ages of 8-13 who have lost a parent. At that age, children are so tender, and it's a horrible age to lose a parent; especially when everyone else seems to still have theirs.
The book is, as one other reviewer said, a bit sugar-coated...but mostly truthful and realistic.

We had to read it in Elementary School, and I want you all to know, that is an awesome book, but yet so sad. It made a lot of us cry, a lot of us, but it is so worth the tears because it makes you realize that people can die soon and tragically, and especially those with family. So cherish your family while you can, and please, if you can not think of anything to read, please pick up a copy of this book. It really does not matter the age for this book, I think it is a book for all ages.

Liza lives with her mom, dad, two sisters, and brother. Thier names are Hope, Carrie, and Brent. They live on 25 Bayberry street, that is where most of this story takes place. They're house has had O'harras living in it since it was built. The school was having a pagent and Liza didn't like the sound of that. Liza was worried about her dad because he had been really sick lately. They were in for a hard winter and they found out this Christmas would be their dad's last. They're dad passed away that christmas and they had to move out of thier good-size house, because they're mom wasn't making enough money alone to support her house and family. Later Liza met mark and they began to date, but I don't want to give the end away so audious.

I am putting together the materials for my Ph.D. dissertation on adolescent authors. I read this book and immediately found room for it in my work. I read the story twice and found new and exciting parts that I had missed the first time. This is certainly a book that needs to be put near the top of the list of classic young adult literature. There is a small part of the reader, any reader, that is felt in the story, and what a great feeling it is to see Liza rise above her sorrow and engage in a world that her father adored, a world of happiness and laughter.

the first time i read this book, i was 8, and my father had just recently been diagnosed with cancer. i rediscovered it at 10 (just after his death) and in 7th grade (the age of the book's protagonist); after that i never lost track of it again. i treasured the book like a secret diary because it so perfectly fit every emotion i'd ever felt, every struggle i'd ever faced. the parallels were so great to my own story that i refused to let a close friend borrow the book because of how much about me it would reveal. this book is well-written and deserves to be back in print. my struggles would have been a thousand times harder without this book to show me just how normal all of my fears were, and it's a book that any child or preteen who has lost a parent should consider reading.