false 4632577 1 <B>Dredging up the past can knock the present right off balance.<P></P></B>The world expects perfection from seventeen-year-old Shawna Gallagher, and for the most part, that&#8217;s what they get. She dates the right boys, gets good grades, and follows her father&#8217;s every rule. But when her estranged lesbian mother dies, it&#8217;s more than perfect Shawna can take. Suddenly, anger from being abandoned ten years ago is resurfacing along with Shawna&#8217;s embarrassment over her mother&#8217;s other family. As she confronts family secrets and questions from the past, Shawna realizes there&#8217;s a difference between doing the perfect thing and doing the right thing. <P></P>Shawna&#8217;s honest and relatable voice will draw readers in and hold them until the last page in this coming-of-age story. Jeannine Garsee has delivered a compulsively readable second novel, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Laurie Halse Anderson. 4682658 17 3 2009 Say the Word total:70|5:19|4:31|3:14|2:6|1:0| 70 273 187 25 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 4 0 false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 07:47:11 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 07:55:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 4 0 false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 20:53:46 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 16:46:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 5 0 false Sat Sep 12 07:15:25 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 07:23:11 -0700 2009
Shawna's mom left the family for another woman ten years ago--but now she's had a stroke, propelling Shawna back into her mother's life, and also forcing her to deal with mom being gay--and with mom dumping her. And with Mom'...more...]]> 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 4 0 false Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 11:40:24 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 16:11:32 -0800 2009
But I was looking at this one on our New YA shelf at the library and it just grabbed me. So I took it home and was immediately sucked in--I had a hard tim...more...]]> 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 4 0 false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 12:45:57 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 11:42:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 4 1 false Wed Jan 21 08:23:35 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 21 07:55:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 21 08:23:35 -0800 2009 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 4 1 false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 16:35:29 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 19:34:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 4 0 false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 05:11:30 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 05:18:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 5 0 false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 16:39:08 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 09:41:05 -0700 2009
Throughout the entire book, I understood Shawna so well that there was never any question why she did w...more...]]> 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 4 0 false Fri Jul 17 08:44:51 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 09:06:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 4 0 false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 08:13:46 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 12:21:20 -0700 2009 Before, After, and Somebody In Between, I expected to have difficulty liking this one much at all.

Why?

Shawna Gallagher, the lead character in Say the Word, is a rich teenager with a car, a ...more...]]> 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 3 0 false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 06:47:09 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 16:06:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 4 0 false Sat Feb 07 20:35:45 -0800 2009 Wed Aug 26 06:35:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 2 0 false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Dec 19 13:20:53 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 02 19:03:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 5 1 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 25 17:35:54 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 02 17:54:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 5 2 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri May 08 06:04:47 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 06:08:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 2 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 06:03:24 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 06:06:15 -0700 2009 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 5 0 false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 11:59:31 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 12:00:26 -0700 2009 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 2 0 false Mon Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 08 13:34:24 -0700 2009 Mon Dec 07 17:48:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4632577 1599903334 9781599903330 70 25 3.90 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4632577.Say_the_Word 3 0 false Wed May 13 13:41:41 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 10:22:08 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4632577