JENNY FITZGERALD HAS been outside the huddle, trying to fit in to her sports-obsessed family. The only time she knows the score is when she's holdi...
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Jan 09, 2011
Lacey
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I read Emily Franklin's Liner Notes a couple years ago and absolutely fell in love with it and it's beautiful words. I didn't expect anything less with The Other Half of Me. It was wonderfully written and a truly engaging story, if not a tad bit predictable. But, hey, what's wrong with predictable. I loved Jenny, the main character. And swooned for her relationship with Tate (everyone wants a sensitive, fun-loving guy, right?) It was an interesting change of pace when you added in the character
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Dec 06, 2008
Ying
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I thought this was a pretty good book because there were really times where you could actually feel emotional, especially the climax of the story. I also liked how they tied art into the story but there were some parts I didn't like. For one, the Jenny's romance was too sudden and it seemed like it didn't really fit. I also didn't like the ending and Alexa's character a lot. But in spite of these, I still liked this book a lot and feel it will make a good read.
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Jun 06, 2011
Krista
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Though I remember Emily Franklin's debut series, The Principles of Love, not entirely astounding me with its slow pace in the development of her love interests and overall story, I quite liked the tone of her pieces. This one didn't disappoint and her writing has gotten better (from what I can remember, anyway), so I'm really surprised and delighted.
Jenny Fitzgerald comes from an all around athletic family. Her parents are interested in yard work and running, her sisters Sierra and More...
Jenny Fitzgerald comes from an all around athletic family. Her parents are interested in yard work and running, her sisters Sierra and More...
Jan 29, 2010
Polly
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The other half of me remind me of a book I read quite a long time ago named My So-Called Family by Courtney Sheinmel. Both of this book starts out with the protagonist realize their biological father is a sperm donor. They feel left out and there’s always a wall that connects them to their family and half siblings. After that, the 2 protagonists from the two books started their search of their father online and predictably they found out they have more siblings out there. However, The Other Half
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May 04, 2011
John
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Library read. <3 I love picking up the little Laurel-Leaf paperback editions. They look so cute and make the reading go by faster for some reason. Anyway, after reading Emily's writerly combos with Brendan Halpin in Half-Life of Planets and Jenna and Jonah's Fauxmance, I figured this would be a good book to pick up. It had a good dose of reality, an artistic heroine (which I have a weakness for), and some cool stuff that went on in terms of being a donor child. The plot itself was predi
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Oct 13, 2011
Esteln
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I thought that The other half of me by Emily Fraklin was really good. I thought it was good because she explaines the charechters so well that you fell like you know them. She als builds alot of suspence in the story, so you never really know what is going to come next. The other half of me is also a heart worming book, talking about love, family, friendship and, having faith in you and every body else. Emily is an amazing author and, I really enjoy reading her books. The other half of me is a g
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Apr 25, 2011
Laura
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I found an old ARC of this on my bookshelf a couple weeks ago and decided to finally read it. I was pleasantly surprised! I've been yearning for realism in my novels lately and this one of one The Other Half of Me's strongest points.
Jenny and Alexa were wonderful characters to play opposite each other. Jenny, the self-concious forgotten sister vs Alexa, the outgoing loved only child. I appreciated how Alexa filled a void and was able to see missed moments in Jenny's family life that Je More...
Jenny and Alexa were wonderful characters to play opposite each other. Jenny, the self-concious forgotten sister vs Alexa, the outgoing loved only child. I appreciated how Alexa filled a void and was able to see missed moments in Jenny's family life that Je More...
Sep 19, 2008
Kelly
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The Other Half of Me offers a new twist on the familiar theme of searching for identity. After years of feeling like she doesn’t fit in with her athletically-inclined family, 16-year old Jenny decides to search the Donor Sibling Registry for any other siblings she may have, courtesy of donor #142, her biological father. Jenny is certain that finding a half-sister or brother will erase her feeling of emptiness. Predictably, her union with newly discovered sister Alexa is not the idealized one she
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Jun 21, 2008
Nian
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Though I remember Emily Franklin’s debut series, The Principles of Love, not entirely astounding me with its slow pace in the development of her love interests and overall story, I quite liked the tone of her pieces. This one didn’t disappoint—and her writing has gotten better (from what I can remember, anyway), so I’m really surprised and delighted.
Jenny Fitzgerald comes from an all around athletic family. Her parents are interested in yard work and running, her sisters Sierra and More...
Jenny Fitzgerald comes from an all around athletic family. Her parents are interested in yard work and running, her sisters Sierra and More...
Jan 11, 2008
Michelle
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Jenny is a teenager with some typical teenage problems.
She is struggling to fit in with her athletic family. She wants them to be more supportive of her interests. She is jealous of her twin sisters’ close relationship and also feels that nobody understands her. In her family of 6, she feels lonely.
Jenny loves to paint. The big art show is coming up and she wants to paint something good enough to get into the show.
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She is struggling to fit in with her athletic family. She wants them to be more supportive of her interests. She is jealous of her twin sisters’ close relationship and also feels that nobody understands her. In her family of 6, she feels lonely.
Jenny loves to paint. The big art show is coming up and she wants to paint something good enough to get into the show.
She has a crush on Tate, and now he seems More...
Feb 18, 2009
Kathyred
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In a family obsessed with sports, Jenny Fitzgerald is obsessed with art and painting. Everybody else is on the family team except for her, the odd man out. She is also the only one conceived by in-vitro fertilization. Then a growing relationship w/ her long-time jock crush convinces her that if she finds other siblings with the same father, maybe she'll find the closeness that she sees in the rest of her family.
Feb 06, 2011
Lauren
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Sweet - the Other Half of Me is an outstanding novel about the life, the love, and the secrets. Jenny Fitzgerald is normal - lives in a normal family with a jock brother and younger twin sisters, a mom and a dad. She goes to a regular school, a public high school. But, her biological father is donor 142.
Tate Brodour, a guy Jenny has been secretly lusting after forever, finally starts to show interest. And now, with Tate ready to support her, she has discovered she has a sister. HALF sister. More...
Tate Brodour, a guy Jenny has been secretly lusting after forever, finally starts to show interest. And now, with Tate ready to support her, she has discovered she has a sister. HALF sister. More...
May 10, 2008
Jennifer
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Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel for TeensReadToo.com
Jenny's a painter in a family full of sports lovers. She can't catch a ball to save her life. Is it any wonder she feels like an outsider in her own family?
While she has always known that she's the product of a sperm donor, it never really made much difference until she reads an article about tracking down relations. Now she can't let go of the idea.
Could there be a sibling out there, just like her? Is Jenny br More...
Jenny's a painter in a family full of sports lovers. She can't catch a ball to save her life. Is it any wonder she feels like an outsider in her own family?
While she has always known that she's the product of a sperm donor, it never really made much difference until she reads an article about tracking down relations. Now she can't let go of the idea.
Could there be a sibling out there, just like her? Is Jenny br More...
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Nov 17, 2010
Lea Ivy
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this is definitely a good read, i enjoyed reading this! this is about a girl finding her long lost sister and with the way she has been living, everything changes. she feels that her half sister is taking everything away from her.
this book is a really warm, family - related story. i would love to give this book as a present to one of my cousins or best friends.
this book is a really warm, family - related story. i would love to give this book as a present to one of my cousins or best friends.
Apr 10, 2010
Ana
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those anyone know if there might me. is. or whatever, a sequel for this book.. imean i wanna know who the 'other' one is and how tate did when school started :) but in anyway i totally LOVE this book :D
Mar 11, 2008
Susan P
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This one sounds really interesting. Here's the blurb from our catalog: "Feeling out of place in her athletic family, artistic sixteen-year-old Jenny Fitzgerald, whose biological father was a sperm donor, finds her half sister through the Sibling Donor Registry and contacts her, hoping that this will finally make her feel complete".
Unfortunately the book didn't live up to it's promise. It was just OK. The bio sister comes to visit and everyone likes her better than Jenny More...
Unfortunately the book didn't live up to it's promise. It was just OK. The bio sister comes to visit and everyone likes her better than Jenny More...
Feb 01, 2008
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Oct 04, 2007
Faith
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this is the story of a girl trying to find her place within her family. The twist is she is the daughter of doner # 142 and her mom; she has three half siblings and her father adopted her. when she meets her half sister (another child from doner #142) it isn't at all what she expected.
while at times predictable, it was a sweet story that is sure to resonate with YA's coming of age knowing that they weren't conceived in a "traditional" way.
while at times predictable, it was a sweet story that is sure to resonate with YA's coming of age knowing that they weren't conceived in a "traditional" way.
Nov 23, 2007
Melody
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I really wanted to like this story about a girl whose mom used anonymous donor sperm to get pregnant, and the girl's discovery of a sibling through the Donor Sibling Registry. I'm sorry to say that I found the secondary characters to be virtual cardboard cut-outs, the situations mostly unbelievable. Franklin seems to be trying too hard for an interesting plot. Still, I'm glad to see a donor-conceived kid in a book, any book.
Jul 03, 2008
Goldie
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I only picked this book up because I still had 2 hrs for my shift and nothing to do, oh yep wait that book was worse than nothing to do. The characters, plotline, and development of their roles throughout the story was dismall. They were amazingly fited to the main characters views of the plot all in all I was dissapointed and should've spent my time doodling.
Dec 17, 2009
Julliette
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Makes you think about your world. Loved this charcter and her story.
Dec 22, 2008
Anna
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I've read a book almost like this before, so it's kind of like a cliche' to me.
Jenny has the "sporty" family, yet she's an artistic type.
You know the drill. Not very exciting.
If you are unlike me and haven't read many books like this, I recommend it, but if you have, I wouldn't read it.
May 29, 2008
Susan
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This is wish-fulfillment comfort food reading. Jenny gets everything she ever wanted at the price of a little angst and soul-searching.
Nov 02, 2007
Rai
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This book is like based on my life! I feel like Emily Franklin based the book on ME! this is like the BEST book ever!!! i <3 it!!!
