Student Book Review:


Tell me Everything

by: Carolyn Coman


Review done by:

 Kerri Montgomery
Grade 7
Van Antwerp Middle School
Niskayuna, NY

Tell me Everything is a realistic novel that is very heart warming, exciting and raging with love. The book is set around a situation that could happen in real life. This book is a book that pulls you, the reader in.
Tell me Everything is about a girl named Rosalind Jacoby (Roz for short) who has lost her mother in a tragedy. Her mother (Ellen) died while saving a boy (Nate) from falling off of a mountain. Nate was dangling off of the mountain and Ellen came along and saved him, in the midst of saving his life she fell off the mountain and died. Roz then went to live with her Uncle Mike who acts as if he does not care that his sister has died. Roz goes through life with her Uncle and she misses her mother so much. Almost everyday after school she would call Nate and never talk she just dialed his number and would listen to him breath. That satisfied her need to know what really happend....for now anyway.
One day, Roz decided to go and visit Nate. She went inside of his school and found him. She asked him to come outside and talk with her. When Nate came outside Roz had nothing to say and when she finally gathered the courage to ask him something she did, she said "Nate, how did it happen?" Nate told her exactly what had happen that day on the mountain. He told her that he had slipped and her mother came along and rescued him. Nate referred to Roz's mother as a hero. Roz had already known her mom was a hero, but it made Roz happy to know that her mother was a hero to someone else as well. Roz asked yet another question. She said, " Can I see your toe?" Nate said "why do you what to see my toe?" Roz had wanted to see Nate's toe because he had one toe amputated because he had a bad case of frost bite. From that point on, Roz and Nate kept in contact by writing and talking on the telephone. That is the main plot of the story Tell me Everything by Carolyn Coman.
Tell me Everything is filled with 156 pages of tragedy, happiness and pleasure. This is a book that shares how close a mother and daughter can get and what can happen when you lose a loved one.
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