Student Book Review:
Other Side of Dark, The
by: Joan Lowery Nixon
Review done by:
Erin Croce
Grade 7
Van Antwerp Middle School
Niskayuna, NY
The Other Side of Dark
is an outstanding story. The book is a really emotionally moving story about a tragic
thing that happened to an innocent girl. This was one of the most exciting stories
that I have read this year. The story is about a girl who has to live with a tragedy that happened four years ago. This tragedy left her in a coma.
The story is about a girl who was in a coma and she woke up from the deep sleep that
she was in and realized that she was there for four years. Her family was very happy
to see her again. Her father was there to see her along with her sister and the
man that is going to marry her. She asked her father where her mother was. Her father
told her that she had died.
The girl who awoke from the coma, Stacy, could not believe that her mother was gone.
She asked her father what had happened, and when her father told her she could not
believe it. Her father said that she had been shot by someone that broke into their
house. He also said that she had been shot by the same person, and that was the same
reason that she was in the coma.
Stacy remembered what had happened a little at a time. Over a couple of weeks, she
remembered everything except the person's face. At the same time she is trying to
catch up on everything that she had missed, such as her school work, she also had
to catch up on her social life. She felt weird around her best friend because she had been
gone for so long.
Stacy was also constantly being bothered by the media. The news reporters were coming
to the hospital and asking her several questions. Stacy did do one interview. She
was on the news a couple of times. She had to stay in the hospital even when she
felt all better because she still had to go to therapy.
Stacy kept trying to figure out who the person is, that shot both her mother and her.
Will she find out who the person is? Will the person be the right person? Will
she be able to prove that the person is who killed her mother and put her in a coma?
I thought that the book kept me interested because of the suspense. The story lets
you realize how hard it is to be in a coma and lose a mother. I would recommend
this story to anyone that likes to read a nice and entertaining story.
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