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The Farewell Kid
Seventeen-year-old Heidi Rosenbloom decides against college when she finishes high school and to devote herself to stray dogs instead; but the entrance of photographer Harvey Beaumont into her life adds another dimension.
155 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1990
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Barbara Wersba
37 books15 followersBarbara Wersba was born in Chicago, moved to California, and then to New York City. She attended Bard College, and after graduating returned to Greenwich Village to study acting with Paul Mann. She received an honorary doctorate from Bard. In 1994, Wersba founded The Bookman Press, a small-press publishing company. She lives in Sag Harbor, New York.
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May 13, 2010
I read this when I was probably 11 or 12 and way too young to be reading it. My mom picked it out for me at the library because it had a "pets" sticker on it and I loved dogs.
Whoooo boy. If she had ANY IDEA, she would never have let me read it. It's about a seventeen-year-old girl named Heidi Rosenbloom who, fed up with her mother who doesn't understand her, moves out while her mom is out of town. She rents an abandoned barber shop with the intention of starting a pet adoption business.
She soon meets a really weird rich guy named Harvey Beaumont, who really rubs her the wrong way at first. Eventually they start a kind of romance and she ends up losing her virginity to him in the barbershop. This is the part that really made an impression on me as a young kid. Then she sends a telegram to her best friend telling her how awesome it was.
This book was not a great work of literature. It's not even a particularly good one. But I had almost no information of any kind about sexuality before I read it. While it wasn't graphic, it seemed honest enough, and I'm glad I read it. It will always hold a very special place in my heart for this reason.
Whoooo boy. If she had ANY IDEA, she would never have let me read it. It's about a seventeen-year-old girl named Heidi Rosenbloom who, fed up with her mother who doesn't understand her, moves out while her mom is out of town. She rents an abandoned barber shop with the intention of starting a pet adoption business.
She soon meets a really weird rich guy named Harvey Beaumont, who really rubs her the wrong way at first. Eventually they start a kind of romance and she ends up losing her virginity to him in the barbershop. This is the part that really made an impression on me as a young kid. Then she sends a telegram to her best friend telling her how awesome it was.
This book was not a great work of literature. It's not even a particularly good one. But I had almost no information of any kind about sexuality before I read it. While it wasn't graphic, it seemed honest enough, and I'm glad I read it. It will always hold a very special place in my heart for this reason.
August 28, 2011
Passable, but easily the least of the small batch of YA novels I recently acquired on Bookmooch. The whole thing felt rather pat by the end and even all the dog stuff didn't quite make up for a sense of been-there done-that for me. Still, likely a nice read for - you guessed it - young adults, and the wise-beyond-her-years heroine, Heidi Rosenbloom (this book is apparently her third adventure), is appealing. Final score: **1/2 out of *****
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