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Motorcycles, Sushi & One Strange Book (Real Life #1)
by
Nancy Rue
Normal?While family dinners and vacations to touristy destinations are ordinary events for her 'normal' friends, fifteen-year-old Jessie Hatcher's normal life means dealing with her ADHD and her mother's bipolar disorder.So why is Jessie shocked when the unexpected happens? Now her 'normal' includes living in Florida with the father she always thought was dead and learning...more
Paperback, 222 pages
Published
May 4th 2010
by Zondervan
(first published April 10th 2010)
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Review by Jill Williamson
Fifteen-year-old Jessie Hatcher has a system to deal with her with her mom’s bipolar disorder and her own ADHD—until her father shows up. Her dead father. Apparently, mom told a little lie. And on the day her dad comes to meet her, mom ends up in the hospital. And now Jesse’s only relative is her dad, who lives in Florida, far away from all her friends. So Jesse goes, but she isn’t staying, even when she starts to like her job at the local sushi restaurant, the cute guy...more
Fifteen-year-old Jessie Hatcher has a system to deal with her with her mom’s bipolar disorder and her own ADHD—until her father shows up. Her dead father. Apparently, mom told a little lie. And on the day her dad comes to meet her, mom ends up in the hospital. And now Jesse’s only relative is her dad, who lives in Florida, far away from all her friends. So Jesse goes, but she isn’t staying, even when she starts to like her job at the local sushi restaurant, the cute guy...more
The Real Life series by Nancy Rue is four books written for teens. The books are about four completely different teen girls who each find Christ during a difficult time in their lives. The girls never meet in the books and the only thing they have in common is a book that each found when they needed guidance the most. Or the book found them. The books are Motorcycles, Sushi and One Strange Book,
Boyfriends, Burritos & an Ocean of Trouble, Tournaments, Cocoa and One Wrong Move, and Limos, Lat...more
Boyfriends, Burritos & an Ocean of Trouble, Tournaments, Cocoa and One Wrong Move, and Limos, Lat...more
"Motorcycles, Sushi, & One Strange Book" is a fast-paced young adult novel with some romance. This is the first book in the "Real Life" series, but you can read them in any order without missing information or spoiling the other books in the series.
The world-building was excellent in all areas and brought the story alive in my imagination. I liked the characters. They acted realistically and dealt with realistic, hard problems. I cared about what happened to the characters, so I had a hard t...more
The world-building was excellent in all areas and brought the story alive in my imagination. I liked the characters. They acted realistically and dealt with realistic, hard problems. I cared about what happened to the characters, so I had a hard t...more
( this book is a: christian fiction)
I think this book speaks to me because i am like the main character in a few different ways. I have trouble focusing, and have had family troubles in th past. In this book the main character undergoes a great deal of drama in her life and tries to rebel against what, if she just gave it a try, she has been looking for her whole life. She needs her boundaries and borders that keep her in check in the mind. I mean i know that i personally have trouble staying o...more
I think this book speaks to me because i am like the main character in a few different ways. I have trouble focusing, and have had family troubles in th past. In this book the main character undergoes a great deal of drama in her life and tries to rebel against what, if she just gave it a try, she has been looking for her whole life. She needs her boundaries and borders that keep her in check in the mind. I mean i know that i personally have trouble staying o...more
Jul 13, 2010
Theresa
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Teens through adult
Recommended to Theresa by:
FIRST
Book number one of Nancy Rue's Real Life Series, "Motorcycles, Sushi, & One Strange Book" deals with ADHD and bipolar disorder. Written in first person, 15 year old Jessie reveals what it is like to have ADHD and how she tries to handle it. She also tries to care for her mother, who has untreated bipolar disorder until she can no longer control the situation and her mother is hospitalized.
Jessie grew up with the lack of stability and finds it all normal, until her "dead" father appears and r...more
Jessie grew up with the lack of stability and finds it all normal, until her "dead" father appears and r...more
Nancy Rue has started a great new series here. It may be for young adults but not too young. This first book deals with ADHD, bipolar disorder, parental suicide and much, much more. The second book dives into dating abuse (older boyfriend beating up his younger girlfriend) and takes it all the way through the trial. Heavy issues, but very well written. Great characters and realistic scenarios. For young people in high school and college these books are very appropriate, but I think it'll be awhi...more
Ok, here is the deal, I liked this book. I liked the storyline. I loved the characters. The relationships betweens the varies characters were so honest, it was great. What I didn't like is how the author tried to make this book a religious book. It's like the author took a great book that was finished and then inserted this religious stuff and chopped up the storyline and made it ackward and destroyed the flow of the book. I really think if the author took all the stuff about the found "book" ou...more
Okay, don't get mad at me please, but um, some Christian books are, well, a little cheesy. Sorry. But its true. Not with this one those. If you like Chick Lit you'll really like Motorcycles, Sushi & One Strange Book. Yet its so much more than Chick Lit. This is the story of a 15 year old girl, Jesse, who struggles with ADHD and a mother with issues of her own. One day Jesse gets a world-rocking phone call from the Dad that her mother has led her to believe died years before. Jesse is taken o...more
Probably the best juvenile Christian fiction I have read in a long time. The lively voice of the ADHD heroine is strong and realistic. We can understand both her frustrations with her inability to control herself and her friends’ enjoyment of her bubbly, spontaneous personality. The spiritual message is also strong and fully integrated in the story as the father she has never known has come to Christ and tries to give her a stable, disciplined home she needs. He has his own demons, as has Jessie...more
Jessie is 15 years old and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her mother. Jessie has ADHD, which she spends a lot of time trying to hide, and her mother is either in her "In-Bed Phase" or "No-Bed Phase", which she also hides. Jessie has learned to cope with all of this on her own. Jessie's mother has told her that her father died, so no one is more surprised than Jessie when her father shows up and wants to meet her. Jessie's mom gets sicker and ends up in a mental hospital and Jessie has to go l...more
This was a Christian YA book. It was very much about finding God and yourself. There is nothing negative about that, but it was not what I was looking for. I could not get into the mind of the ADHD 15 year old girl and feel comfortable there or even want to continue from her point of view. It was very well written and did a good job of helping you see what things were like for her, but it wasn't for me.
Nancy Rue has started a great new series here. It may be for young adults but not too young. This first book deals with ADHD, bipolar disorder, parental suicide and much, much more. The second book dives into dating abuse (older boyfriend beating up his younger girlfriend) and takes it all the way through the trial. Heavy issues, but very well written. Great characters and realistic scenarios. For young people in high school and college these books are very appropriate, but I think it'll be awhi...more
Jun 28, 2011
'Sylvie'
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Every teen girl, Christians, ADHD people
I loooove this book! Nancy Rue is my favorie author and a friend! Love it!
This is probably my favorite Nancy Rue In Real Life book- it's about a girl with ADHD who has to go live with her dad, who she has never met. She learns to trust people and put her life together and finds God. Funny, amazing, awesome! :D
This is probably my favorite Nancy Rue In Real Life book- it's about a girl with ADHD who has to go live with her dad, who she has never met. She learns to trust people and put her life together and finds God. Funny, amazing, awesome! :D
a quick but potent read about a girl who has adhd trying to cope while her mother takes to bed for days at a time with bi-polar disorder. she finds out amidst all this that she has a father and while he was once an alcoholic, he's not only willing to step up for her, but help her find a way to get things in control.
I really liked this book although the combination of main character with ADHD, the crazy mom, the born-again Christian Dad and insights from a little red book with updated Bible stories had the possibility of being too much angst or preachy. Action is fast-paced, dialogue is snappy, good read
It was refreshing to read a book acknowledging the positive influences Christianity can have. This book was not perfect, but I did find myself reading quickly, connected to and caring about the main character. I was pleased with the realistic yet transformative realizations she experienced.
This is a fantastic book! It is so funny, yet also so touching. Well-written with wonderful, wonderful! characters. I love it so much I'm getting the real book to add it to my library. (I have the Kindle version that I got free at Amazon.com.)
I really liked this book a lot. I couldn't put it down it was so interesting. Also a must read for any teen girl, especially one with ADHD as the main character has ADHD. Totally a good read
This is a really good book about a girl with ADHD and a few family and love problems. Who doesn't love that? Um, I want that book she has for Christmas...
Really good book-both of them were... :)
Really good book-both of them were... :)
Great story from the perspective of a 15 year-old girl. She has ADHD, her mother is Bi-Polar, and from out of nowhere, her biological father shows up. She had been told that her dad was dead, and now he want's to be in her life.
I won't give any spoilers here, but just tell you that this is a very well written piece of fiction. I will warn those who don't have a spiritual bone in their bodies, she does end up turning to the Lord for help. It felt a little preachy a couple of times, but I actuall...more
I won't give any spoilers here, but just tell you that this is a very well written piece of fiction. I will warn those who don't have a spiritual bone in their bodies, she does end up turning to the Lord for help. It felt a little preachy a couple of times, but I actuall...more
i absolutely loved this book because it relates to some people's real life and shows what kids can feel.
What do you do when you’re mother is bipolar and rarely comes out of her room, you’ve just met your father who was believed to be dead and on top of that you find a mysterious book that seems to get exactly what you’re going through? That’s what is happening to Jessie in her life right now, so Jessie reads the book and plans to escape her father and annoying half-sister.
Read this book if you like motorcycle crashes and strange books. I give this book a thumbs up for portraying what some children...more
Read this book if you like motorcycle crashes and strange books. I give this book a thumbs up for portraying what some children...more
Cute book set in St. Augustine. I love happy endings.
You never really know someone like you think you do.
geared for teenager girls. I like it.
I could not put it down. It was a fun read and I want to read the next in the series.
Very good!!!! Christian with modern culture family life.....good for teen book club.
teens liked this book, it allowed for a great discussion....one of the clubs best....with 9 teens in attendance. march 2012
teens liked this book, it allowed for a great discussion....one of the clubs best....with 9 teens in attendance. march 2012
I loved this book. True it is geared toward a teenage girl, but what a great insight into the teen mind and struggling with ADHD. The undercurrent of God working in her life was beautiful.
*Thanks to Zondervan for providing a copy for review through FIRST Wild Card Tours.*
Interesting. A quick read.
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Nancy Rue is the author of over 100 books for adults and teens, including the Christy Award-winning The Reluctant Prophet, Unexpected Dismounts and Healing Waters (with Steve Arterburn), which was the 2009 Women of Faith Novel of the Year. She travels extensively—at times on the back of a Harley—speaking to and teaching groups of women of all ages. Nancy lives on a lake in Tennessee with her Harle...more
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Jan 11, 2011 01:27pm