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Every Little Thing in the World

by Nina de Gramont (Goodreads Author)

3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 · rating details · 519 ratings · 113 reviews

A teenager. A pregnancy. A familiar story. NOT

When sixteen-year-old Sydney Biggs’s pregnancy test shows the tell tale plus sign, she confides in only her best friend Natalia, and Natalia promptly “borrows” her mother’s car so Sydney can confront the baby’s father. But after the car is reported stolen and police bring the girls home, their parents send them away to wilderne...more

Hardcover, 288 pages

Published March 23rd 2010 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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Jul 07, 2010 Briony Zlomke rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: bfya, great-smelling-books, ya, realistic, coming-of-age, pregnancy

I would like to first say that Nina De Gramont can receive my humble apology whenever she would like.

When I first saw the cover and heard the jacket blip of this book, I instantly made fun of it. All I could think of was, “ANOTHER pregnancy story AND she is going to wilderness camp, OH COME ON!.” I think I can literally count on all my fingers and toes how many times I picked up this book and laughed, however Gramont got the better of me. After reading some of the reviews of Every Little Thing...more

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Mar 06, 2010 Morgan F rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, pulse-it, goodreads-author, summer, its-a-girl, 2010, read-2010, favorites, realistic, ive-got-issues, knocked-up, medium-sized, e-book

Originally, I wasn't too interested in this book. From the plot description, it looked pretty cliched.

This book is about 16 year old Sydney Biggs. After getting into some trouble, Sydney's parents send her off on a six-week canoeing trip for the summer in the Canadian wilderness. Sydney's best friend, the rich and beautiful Natalia, is also going, but Sydney isn't all too happy about that, because with Natalia there, Sydney must constantly face an awful truth: she is pregnant. Over the course o...more

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Aug 02, 2011 Amanda Ford added it

"Every Little Thing In The World" was very difficult to read. Although Sydney is described as a "good kid," she is anything but a good role model for teens like myself. She and her friends have no qualms about drinking, partying, and "borrowing cars," but maybe that's the point. This made it laborious for my to sympathize with her concerns.

The actual writing of the book is very good. Nina de Gramont has a wonderful grasp of the English language and stylistically parts of the book are very beaut...more

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Jan 15, 2013 Paige rated it 4 of 5 stars

Nina De Gramont’s romance novel, Everything Little Thing the World, is bound to take the reader on an adventure in the wilderness. Some readers won’t like the trip and will disagree with some of the things the protagonist, Sydney, does. As for myself I have very different opinions about what Sydney does and how she handles her problems.
During the first couple of chapters Sydney and her best friend Natalia get caught taking Natalia’s parents’ car without a license. They take the car to a drinkin...more Nina De Gramont’s romance novel, Everything Little Thing the World, is bound to take the reader on an adventure in the wilderness. Some readers won’t like the trip and will disagree with some of the things the protagonist, Sydney, does. As for myself I have very different opinions about what Sydney does and how she handles her problems.
During the first couple of chapters Sydney and her best friend Natalia get caught taking Natalia’s parents’ car without a license. They take the car to a drinking party to go tell Sydney’s boyfriend, Tommy, that she pregnant. They leave the party and get caught because Natalia’s parents found out they weren’t where they were supposed to be. Later the next day, Sydney’s mom decides that she is going to spend some time at her dad’s house. When she is at her dad’s house, her dad tells her that she is going to be going to a camp in Canada for a full month and that when she gets home she will be working on a farm to pay for the camp. At camp she doesn’t make all the right decisions for herself and the baby, but she makes it through the whole month without any serious problems.
Sydney’s camp experiences were mixed. When she went to board the plane, Natalia walked up to her. Sydney was surprised because Natalia was supposed to stay home and collect money so she could get an abortion. For the most part, Sydney is a likeable young adult. She has made some wrong decisions in her life, but she is learning from her mistakes. Through her experience she now knows when to say yes and no. At camp she meets a cute boy named Cody. Right then, she decides she is just going to be friends with him. One night during the trip, Sydney’s group meets up with Cody’s group. She later finds herself with Cody alone at the beach, “I can’t,” I sobbed. “I’m so sorry. I really, really want to, but I just can’t.” This is said by Sydney when her make out session with Cody is going too far and she tells him to stop. I think she made the right decision at this point in the book.
I think many teenage girls would like the book because is it an adventure/romance. Many girls are in love with those types of books because they want that kind of stuff to happen to them. Throughout the book the group that Sydney is with goes on adventures through Canada. Every day they are canoeing and trying different activities that you can only do in Canada. She also pretends that one of the guys in the group is her boyfriend to make Natalia jealous. Teenage girls would like this because it happens in everyday life.
With my opinions aside, the book is supposed to be a friendly book for a teenage girl. Nina did a good job ending every chapter with suspense to keep the reader reading. She also makes the reader feel like they are in Sydney’s shoes because any teenage girl could be going through those situations. One thing I didn’t like was how it ended. I wish she would have gone into more detail about what happened after Canada.
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Jan 15, 2013 Alesha O'bright rated it 4 of 5 stars

Every Little Thing in the World by Nina De Garmont is an amazing story for all teenage girls to read. It’ll keep your attention all the way throughout. There really wasn’t a dull point to it and I never wanted to put it down.
Sydney is a very good kid and overall a very good student who rarely ever gets in trouble. She is a very pretty girl, but her best friend named Natalia who is drop dead gorgeous seems to get her into unneeded trouble. Natalia is super rich and has everything she has ever wa...more Every Little Thing in the World by Nina De Garmont is an amazing story for all teenage girls to read. It’ll keep your attention all the way throughout. There really wasn’t a dull point to it and I never wanted to put it down.
Sydney is a very good kid and overall a very good student who rarely ever gets in trouble. She is a very pretty girl, but her best friend named Natalia who is drop dead gorgeous seems to get her into unneeded trouble. Natalia is super rich and has everything she has ever wanted especially an amazing boyfriend. They are perfect for each other and all they ever think about. Natalia causes Sydney to get into a lot of trouble because they stole Natalia’s mother’s car and drove it without their license. Sydney has finally pushed her mother to the breaking point. Sydney’s mom send her to go live with her dad, and then for him to send her onto a canoe wilderness trip. But Sydney had made a very bad mistake before moving in with her dad. She has gotten pregnant and Natalia is the only one who knows. She does not know whether she should abort the baby, try to keep it, or give it up for adoption; all she knows is that she has to go on this wilderness trip while bearing a child. Natalia surprises Sydney by coming on the trip with her to support her and the “baby”. On the trip they meet Mick, a juvenile delinquent, and Brendan who is a movie star with his own secret of being gay. All along the trip Sydney is constantly reminded of the pregnancy and she still has no idea of what she is going to do with it.
Sydney is a very important character in the novel. She is the one who has to deal with the whole pregnancy. But if her rich and beautiful best friend, Natalia, wasn’t there, she would not be able to make it. Sydney has no idea what it is like having a child and she has no idea what is going to happen with the baby. Natalia is there every step of the way, but throughout the camp she wants more and more to go home to be with her boyfriend Steve which could just leave Sydney with the group out in the wilderness, having to deal with the pregnancy on her own. Natalia stays on the trip just for Sydney. Everyone in her wilderness group seems to like her and get along with her very well, but she still doesn’t trust anyone to know her secret.
I can compare this book to the show 16 and Pregnant on MTV. Both the people on that show and Sydney made very bad decisions and ended up pregnant. Although on 16 and Pregnant they don’t have to go on trips to Canada, they are still faced with the same decision whether to keep the baby or not. They have to deal with telling their parents and a lot of people finding out about their situation, but it is their fault and they have to suffer the consequences.
This book is amazing for most teenage girls to read because it’ll keep your attention. Although it times it might seem long, you will still love it in the end! I thought it was a great book and I would suggest it to any one of my friends to read.
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Feb 11, 2012 Devon rated it 4 of 5 stars

I'd like to give this book 3.5 stars, but since that's not possible, I'll help it out rather than take away from it. The writing in this book is very solid--the characters are believable (if not a little ridiculous at times, but who isn't?) and the plot isn't over-the-top or extreme. It's excellent as a first person narrative and really gets to the root of all of Sydney, the narrator's, problems and thoughts and feelings.

It's not a great novel of literary merit, but it does rise above the typic...more

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Oct 06, 2011 Heidi rated it 1 of 5 stars

terrible. this book took me weeks to slog through. i kept waiting for something, ANYTHING, redeeming to to happen to any of these selfish, naive, ridiculous, irresponsible characters. there was no "lightbulb" moment for any of them. nothing learned. the ongoing battle of whether sydney should or should not get an abortion was preposterous. she lists all the stupid things that she had done as a 16 year old that she knew better than to do but failed to acknowledge that because she is a child, maki...more

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Jun 02, 2011 Amanda (GoodChoiceReading) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Actual rating: 3.5/5

I’m not sure what to make of Every Little Thing in the World. I’m so confused, but I’ll try to put my thoughts into words the best I can.

I was apprehensive about reading this novel once I realized it was about teen pregnancy. There’s just something about these stories that turn me off, and I don’t know why. I definitely think it’s something that needs to be addressed. Maybe it’s the fact that I was a teen mom? And since I’ve lived it, I don’t necessarily feel the urge to read...more Actual rating: 3.5/5

I’m not sure what to make of Every Little Thing in the World. I’m so confused, but I’ll try to put my thoughts into words the best I can.

I was apprehensive about reading this novel once I realized it was about teen pregnancy. There’s just something about these stories that turn me off, and I don’t know why. I definitely think it’s something that needs to be addressed. Maybe it’s the fact that I was a teen mom? And since I’ve lived it, I don’t necessarily feel the urge to read about it?

The characterization in this story and the atmosphere seemed spot on. I found myself enjoying their journey, becoming engrossed in their surroundings. The cast of characters were a lot of fun.

This novel made me think. I have always considered myself pro-choice (though I would never even consider an abortion myself) but something about the way the subject was handled in this story disgusted me at times. Abortion was discussed and considered in such a non-chalant way that I was turned off by it, and in the end I was momentarily questioning my own beliefs.

Something that annoys me is when the back of the book is responsible for letting me in one details. For example, had the back of the book not said so, I never would have thought of Sydney as a “good kid”. Maybe she was before she began making such poor decisions, but we didn’t get to see that side of her, so to me, it’s as if it doesn’t really exist. In my mind, she’s a girl who doesn’t consider her actions beforehand, which leads to reckless drinking and unprotected sex.

I loved the exploration of the teen mind during a time like this, and the relationships and behaviors of those around her. I felt that it was authentic and enjoyable for the majority of the book. It has a pretty cover that doesn’t do the depth of the story justice.

As you can see, I’m conflicted. It left me in a swirl of positive and negative emotions, so I’d recommend everyone to give a shot to find out for themselves.
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Jan 17, 2011 Jan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: teenbooks, contemporary

Don't be deceived by the stupid, stupid cover. This is not just a lite chick lit novel, but an excellent first person narrative coming of age novel that deals with the subject of teen pregnancy.

Themes of making choices, particularly teen pregnancy, and self-discovery and identity. Novel keeps you guessing as to which decision Sydney will make regarding her pregnancy. Author takes her and other characters out of their familiar context and places them in a remote wilderness, where they are partic...more Don't be deceived by the stupid, stupid cover. This is not just a lite chick lit novel, but an excellent first person narrative coming of age novel that deals with the subject of teen pregnancy.

Themes of making choices, particularly teen pregnancy, and self-discovery and identity. Novel keeps you guessing as to which decision Sydney will make regarding her pregnancy. Author takes her and other characters out of their familiar context and places them in a remote wilderness, where they are participating in a canoe trip. This setting acts as a catalyst in pushing characters to re-invent themselves to some extent or explore different sides of themselves.

Characters:
Sydney: feels purposeless, as life has no meaning. She is passive at beginning. Cannot accept that her pregnancy is real, either physically (few symptoms except for pregnancy test) or mentally. The wilderness setting begins to allow her to assert herself. She can handle a canoe, unlike Natalia. She ultimately saves the group by going off in canoe by herself to get help. Out of passivity and into action. That allows her to then take action on her pregnancy.

Natalia: relies on her superficial exterior, but lake strips that away. She pushes her own insecurity about her birth origins onto Sydney. Overly involved in Sydney’s life. Perhaps masks her internal emptiness. Some self loathing with her relationship with Mick, which borders on abusive.

Mick: acts out what everyone else is only thinking about. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde character. Sometimes he is kind, other times he is cruel. Powerful and enigmatic personality. So charismatic that he almost steals the book from other characters.

Plot:
Incorporates survival in wilderness and character growth. Moves at fast pace, especially once characters are in wilderness.
Writing: uses powerful imagery and allusion (Adam and Eve) to make this more than just a survival story. Writing becomes particularly compelling once they are in the woods. Beginning of novel is just stage setting for that transition.

Cons: begins as rather conventional story. Doesn’t become compelling until they enter wilderness.

Pros: plot in wilderness acting as catalyst for growth of characters. Plot becomes unpredictable and compelling. Captures the feelings of teens dealing with pregnancy…unreality and denial--without preachiness or moral statements.

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Oct 27, 2010 Julia Driscoll rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: families, friendship-school, appropriate-for-high-school, realistic-fiction, romance-dating

Sydney is 16 and pregnant. She gets in trouble with her mom the night she decides to tell the father of the baby (she's not close to him & she never does tell him - my first issue). Sydney's mom is frustrated with her & sends her to her dad without Sydney telling her about the pregnancy. Dad sends her on a wilderness adventure so that hopefully she will get focused. Sydney doesn't tell him either. The only person who she tells is her best friend Natalia, who shortly after the book begins...more

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Sep 23, 2012 Faydra rated it 5 of 5 stars

Weird to be reading this right after When She Woke - how did I get on an abortion theme? BUT main topic aside, this is perhaps the most authentic, believable, sincere, and naturally written YA book I've ever read... so far. :-)

And the next day I finished...

I never could have enjoyed this as a teenager - I would have considered Sydney and Natalia sluts and had zero patience for them. (Ouch, I know, but there it is.)

As an adult this book felt like a chance to revisit the crazy, mix-up up, well-int...more

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Mar 30, 2010 Stephanie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: pulse-it

I really wasn't expecting to like this book that much. The whole idea of teen pregnancy...it seems so overplayed to me. You hear about it all the time in books and movies and tv shows. But I was shocked when I found myself loving this book, and all its characters (except Natalia. She annoyed me sometimes but overall I guess I did like her too, to a certain extent). I loved the author's twist on a typical teen story, and it was a great twist that set it apart from all those other pregnant-teen bo...more

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Jun 12, 2010 Tina rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya-fiction

3.5 stars - This is a sweet story about Sydney's internal struggle dealing with pregnancy and the decision of what to do about it. The setting takes place on a lake. Sydney's dad sends her on a summer canoe trip in hopes of straightening her out.

The story line was lighter than I was expecting, especially dealing with the topic of abortion. Wasn't as heavy and emotional as I was expecting. The writing was average. Entertaining but didn't wow me enough to want to read more from this author. The p...more

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Jun 11, 2011 Emily Brown (TheBrownReviews) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: reads-of-2011

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This overall, was a good book. But in a way, I couldn't stand it. Sydney, in the beginning, drove me INSANE.

I'm not someone who believes in abortion, although I used to think it wasn't a big deal. Quite frankly, I didn't care. But not now. Now there's just something about when I think of it, it feels totally and completely wrong. Dont have sex, if your not ready for a baby.

Sydney seemed so self-centered, and I wanted to throw the book at the wall half the...more *SPOILERS*
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This overall, was a good book. But in a way, I couldn't stand it. Sydney, in the beginning, drove me INSANE.

I'm not someone who believes in abortion, although I used to think it wasn't a big deal. Quite frankly, I didn't care. But not now. Now there's just something about when I think of it, it feels totally and completely wrong. Dont have sex, if your not ready for a baby.

Sydney seemed so self-centered, and I wanted to throw the book at the wall half the time. It was all about her. She couldn't have the baby, because she didn't want to have to worry and deal with the oncoming struggling of it. Really, there was no real reason as to why she SHOULDN'T of at least had the baby, and then given him/her up for adoption. She wasn't living in a bad home, she wasn't poor, she had nothing obvious like so. She seemed so cruel, and cynical about the whole pregnancy aspect, and at times, she found herself thinking "If I did....(fill in the blank of various times when Sydney thought of different ways to kill her baby while pregnant for split seconds of time)the problem would be gone...."

Another thing that hugely annoyed me, was the fact that she didn't tell anyone but her best friend Natalia. Like, seriously? How irresponsible. Oh no, well, technically she already was in the first place. She didn't end up telling her mom that she was pregnant had wanted the abortion until the moment she was in the hospital during a rescue of the camp.

Not only all this, Sydney was back and forth as to whether she should keep the baby, and while doing so, she barely ate. Since she was at a wilderness camp, although her portions were already pretty scarce, she wouldn't even eat (around the end of the book), and was totally doing things that would harm the baby.

But here's the thing.
By the end, I actually started to have a little respect for Sydney.

Once she had had the abortion, although I still believed it to be wrong, she seemed to really, really truly mature by that point. She seemed more aware of herself, the world around her, and the decisions she had to make, and as to why. By the end of the book, I started to like her. She found out a lot about herself as well.

So guys, definitely worth the read either way.
I just WAS NOT a fan of the whole "ABORTION IS OKAY" aspect.
I understand that it is a women's choice, and a women's choice alone, but it's just something I wouldn't myself choose to do.

This book is a good mix-up, and it IS nice to see a different view on the outlook on preganancy, such as this, being abortion. (less)

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Apr 20, 2011 Laura rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, audiobook, ya-lit

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. For me 2 stars is for a book that I read all of but didn't particularly enjoy.

Every Little Thing in the World tells the story of 16-year-old Sydney's deteriorating relationship with her divorced relationship and accidental pregnancy. Her parents, frustrated with her brushes with the law and lack of responsibility, ship her off to spend a month canoeing in Canadian lakes.

Sydney obsesses over what to do about her pregnancy and her relationship with her best friend, Natalia. The main characters ar...more

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Oct 18, 2012 Julie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult

I loved the adventure aspect of this book--of meeting and overcoming challenges physically and emotionally. Also, the development and bonding of the characters was very realistic--it was gradual and in fits and starts, and occasionally it reversed. I disliked the best friend from the start of the book though, and that only intensified through the rest of the story.

I also think the pregnancy/crisis aspect was done really well. There was no preaching at all--the author really had the character th...more

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Jan 21, 2011 Anna rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, listened-to-audio-book, read-in-2011, young-adult, chick-lit, favorites

Finally, a young adult book that *doesn't* vilify abortion! Thank you, Nina de Gramont. And, to be honest, this one single factor easily could've been the thing that made me love this book. But thankfully the book had a *lot* going for it. Nina de Gramont is quite a good storyteller and even though there were plenty of moments where I felt very frustrated with Sydney, the narrator, in the end I did think that she epitomized a what life can be like for somewhat sheltered, middle class teenage gir...more

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May 30, 2010 Diana Dang rated it 5 of 5 stars

Sydney has a problem. She's pregnant.

Being pregnant at sixteen years is definitely not ideal, but what can Sydney do? She knows she will not marry the baby's father because that is unrealistic and it will not work out. Keeping it quiet from her parents, she is unsure what to do in this situation. Her father sends her up north to Canada so she can join a canoeing camp that will help her learn something new and be away from the technological world today.

Surrounded by Canadian wilderness, Sydney in...more

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Jun 08, 2011 Sarah rated it 1 of 5 stars

The book was extreamly weird and i dont think i recomend it for anyone. There isnt really a point to it except some girl gets caught at a keg party with her best friend who is from sweden i think and then she finds out shes pregnant and her parents are divorced and her dad is a hippy that has the same ideas as sr amina with fast food and stuff so the main girl moves with her weird hippy dad then he sends her away so she tells her best friend that shes being sent away to canada for a kanoo trip t...more The book was extreamly weird and i dont think i recomend it for anyone. There isnt really a point to it except some girl gets caught at a keg party with her best friend who is from sweden i think and then she finds out shes pregnant and her parents are divorced and her dad is a hippy that has the same ideas as sr amina with fast food and stuff so the main girl moves with her weird hippy dad then he sends her away so she tells her best friend that shes being sent away to canada for a kanoo trip then her best friend convinces her parents to instead of sending her to sweden to send her to the kanoo outdoor camp for a month but before her best friend leaves she finds out her parents are really her grandparents and her sister is really her mother. in the meentine they go to the camp where there is no electricity and not much authority and one of the counslers cant keep her shirt on and the main charicter is still pregnant and she hooks up with some guy and shes known as a weirdo at the camp to and some stuff happends that i forgot because it got boring but at one point the main charicter and the best friend get into an argument because the main girl wants to have an abortion and the best friend said no. oh ya and in the beining of the book the best friend has a boy friend that her parents/grandparents dont approve of because hes always on crack or some drug and hes not jewish so thats another reason that they sent her away to either the sweden or the camp so then durring when shes on the camping trip with the main chick there is some rebel dude that the best friend falls in love with so then they become a cuple and its really weird. blah blah happends and back to where the best friend and the main girl get into an argument and they stop talking and the main girl sleeps with some other guy while shes pregnant and shes really weird and blah blah. at one point the group is eating tuna or something and the main girl is the only one who doesnt eat from it and they are in the middle of nowhere on a river and they are far from everyone so when the main girl doesnt eat from the tuna eferyone else eats from it and they get really sick and had to get their stomaches pumped and the main girl wwho is pregnant was the one to get to the main camp and get everyone else to the hospital blah blah. so when they get to the hospital the main girl calls her mom and tells her mom shes pregnant and then she gets an abortion and thats it. weird(less)

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May 23, 2010 Sam rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: read2010

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Apr 25, 2011 Amy Dreger rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: edgy, realistic, favorites

Wow. I was blown away by the beauty of this book. de Gramont is a gifted writer who so eloquently captures the thoughts of a 16-year-old pregnant girl amidst the backdrop of the beautiful Canadian wilderness.

The cover of this book does it such an injustice. It looks like some flakey teen romance which it is anything but. When we meet Sidney, she is a 16-year-old in trouble; a girl who has recently found out she is pregnant due to a fling she had with a boy from the "wrong side of the tracks." He...more

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Apr 27, 2010 Terryann rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: slj-books-reviewed, teen

De Gramont, Nina. Every Little Thing in the World. 7CDs. 7.5hrs. Listening Library. 2010. ISBN 978-0-3077-1020-8. $55.

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Sydney Biggs, is smart, charming, and has it all. The only problem is, the 16yo private school sophomore is secretly pregnant. When she and her best friend, Natalia steal their parents' car to confront the father at a party, they are caught by the police. Sydney's parents decide it's the last straw and send her to a wilderness camp in Canada to work on her world view. I...more

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Apr 19, 2010 Caroline rated it 5 of 5 stars

I thought this was a really great book. I really liked the characters in this book. Although they were pretty typical--the pretty boy celebrity, the hot best friend, the badass, and even the main character who was the pretty average girl, they all had another side to them that went beyond their stereotypes.

As for the plot of the book, I did not know what to expect for Sydney's decision. There were times when she thought she would keep it, and there were times when she thought she would abort it...more

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Jan 22, 2013 Stephanie Reiner rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult

This book is about 16 year old Sydney Biggs. After getting into some trouble, Sydney's parents send her off on a six-week canoeing trip for the summer in the Canadian wilderness. Sydney's best friend, the rich and beautiful Natalia, is also going, but Sydney isn't all too happy about that, because with Natalia there, Sydney must constantly face an awful truth: she is pregnant. Over the course of the summer, Sydney must decide what to do about the baby, whether it means losing her best friend or...more

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Jun 20, 2010 Jazzie rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Apr 20, 2010 Laura rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2010, young-adult

Sydney, 16, gets pregnant and is sent away for the summer on a canoeing trip. The whole book is about Syd trying to decide what to do with her baby.

I had hope for this book. I thought Syd would do the right thing. I am deeply disturbed by this book. I feel shaken and fragile.

After she has an abortion the author writes; "We were like babies, safe somehow in the forest. We were the newest creatures on Earth, with nothing to do but move forward into the world, starting fresh."(p.272)I can't get th...more

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May 22, 2010 Kat rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya-fiction, chick-lit, audiobook

Uh oh, poor 16-year-old Sydney got herself knocked up...What is she going to do??? Why, dodge making a decision by going on a summer wilderness expedition, of course! Yes, this is another teen pregnancy dilemma novel with plenty of corniness, but I enjoyed the Canadian summer canoe adventure. There was even a bit of compelling substance and imagery here and there tucked between the various cliches and stereotypes, so as far as chick-lit goes, this ain't so bad. I'm sure there are plenty of young...more

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Sep 16, 2012 Emma rated it 2 of 5 stars

I actually really liked a lot about this book. The escape, the heart throb TV star with a secret, the writing. I especially liked the thug character Mike, in fact, I would of actually preferred to read his story. Personally though, i didn't quite gel with the main character, and I especially didn't gel with her best friend Natalie.

I don't always believe you have to like a main character to like a novel, but I was that constantly frustrated that I just couldn't enjoy myself. Also, I hate to comp...more

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Nov 07, 2010 Anna Kim rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult

With all the information about pregnancy prevention, it's alarming that teenagers are still uninformed. This is made abundantly clear to Sydney as she has to deal with the consequences of her ignorance. Though I found many of the situations ridiculous (a canoe trip for teenagers supervised by other teenagers? Right, that won't cause any problems)and I think Sydney is shallow and sometimes even stupid, this is a popular book and it's not hard to see why. The issues that Sydney and her friends dea...more

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May 27, 2011 Kim rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

At first glance this looked like a cliched book about teen pregnancy. However, what this book offers is an honest look at how one teen gets pregnant, struggles with the reality that is now her situation and tries to figure what to do next. The reader is taken through every possible resolution that Sydney can think of as well as her reviewing how it was that she got pregnant. She finally accepts her decision and responsibility for her actions. This was an honest look at how one teen stuggles to d...more

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