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Get Well Soon

(Anna Bloom #1)

Julie Halpern (Goodreads Author)

3.77 · Rating details · 6,097 ratings · 619 reviews

Anna Bloom is depressed—so depressed that her parents have committed her to a mental hospital with a bunch of other messed-up teens. Here she meets a roommate with a secret (and a plastic baby), a doctor who focuses way too much on her weight, and a cute, shy boy who just might like her.

But wait! Being trapped in a loony bin isn’t supposed to be about making friends, losin ...more

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Dec 31, 2012 Deidre rated it did not like it

If I could give this book zero stars, I would. I couldn't even finish it.
Get Well Soon is supposed to be about a young teenager's struggles with depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. Instead it makes a mockery of real life problems people have. From the tag line on the cover ("Who says depression has to be depressing?") to Anna Bloom's psychiatrist telling her that her not eating was good because she could afford to lose a few pounds it's very clear that this is a complete joke.

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Aug 12, 2008 Ying rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ya

I loved it. There were so many hilarious parts in this book. Not to mention the fact that Anna has a kickass taste in music in this book ;]
It's one of those books where you want to know what happens to the character in the future. It's the type of book that you want to keep reading and reading but you've already turned the last page and staring at the smiley face sticking out its tongue at you. Oh well.
I loved this book. I would definitely reccommend it for anyone who wants a good laugh and a g ...more

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May 04, 2008 Jennifer Wardrip rated it really liked it

Shelves: trt-posted-reviews, read-by-other-reviewers

Reviewed by Christian C. for TeensReadToo.com

Anna is fat and depressed. She suffers from panic attacks, and has stopped going to school. Her parents, who are totally clueless, decide to send her to a mental hospital. Will that do any good? Anna doesn't think so! Not in this place. Nobody tells her anything, they have the weirdest rules ever, and she's forced to wear these ugly pajamas all day long with no bra!

But as days go by, things turn out to be not as bad as she originally thought. Anna me ...more

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Oct 29, 2010 Cory rated it it was ok

EDIT: I didn't think this was a bad book, but there's no way in hell I'm supporting the author. She'd probably call me a "beyotch" or "dumb as fuck" for writing a short, negative review. Her words, not mine.

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Matt O was cool, love interest Justin was a bit bland though. The book started out kinda slow but it got better in the middle. It fizzed out in the end though and the narrators voice changed completely. I thought ...more

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May 28, 2009 Kata Bel Air rated it it was ok

So, I decided to rewrite my previous review of this book. I realized that the plot was reasonable, but the whole book revolved around swearing and emo misery. It was not worth spending the three weeks that I spent reading this book just to hear the word s**t in every sentence. The narrator has an extreme bias, and is very sympathetic for herself, which in a main character, I usually find boring repulsive and just not fun to read at all whatsoever. I think the main reason I read this book was bec ...more

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Jul 28, 2013 McKenzie rated it liked it · review of another edition

I mean...good premise. I think there should be more books like this, dealing with the "taboo" of mental illness and mental institutions, and I really liked the narrator's voice--witty and humorous, with just a touch of typical teenage drama. It was a fun, easy, quick read, and all the characters Anna encounters are great. ("Great" used because I can't really think of a more positive truthful adjective...) I just don't think it was a very realistic portrayal of depression. At all. Anna cries a lo ...more

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Jun 14, 2011 Brooke rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: i-own-a-copy, realistic-fiction

3.5 stars, it was good, but not quite 4 star worthy.

Get Well Soon is about Anna, just your average girl who, at her own admission, is fat and depressed. She's no stranger to to panic attacks, bouts of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (in Anna's words - TMI!) and as a result, refused to attend school. After being sent away to a "mental hospital" which she lovingly nicknames "Lake Shit", she comes to the realisation that she is stuck and hasn't a clue how to function in the "real world". When Anna arrives ...more

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Apr 29, 2015 maya grace rated it did not like it

Shelves: contemporary, dnf, i-own-it, fiction, young-adult, romance

DNF @ pg. 55

I started this book because I wanted to read something I could breeze through. Get Well Soon promised to quick, easy, and funny. Sadly however, was none of those things. I was really struggling to finish this when I realized I never would; so I gave up and DNF'd it. There was no way I was going to finish this book.

The main problem I had was with the writing. I was surprised that this was considered a young adult novel, it felt a lot more like a middle grade, and not necessarily in a ...more

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Jun 27, 2018 Samantha (WLABB) rated it liked it

Shelves: mentalhealth, audiobooks, ya, contemporary, 2018diversereads, pre-2017

I liked this book, I swear. I actually laughed quite a bit, when Anna was talking about the facility she was in. Totally made me flashback to my own in-patient stints. Anna was really honest, and I really appreciated the growth she experienced, but I feel like she was maybe a little too angsty for me. Don't get me wrong. I understood that she was supposed to be angsty, but I have my limits when it comes to that. Neither here, nor there, I am still curious to see what happened to her, and will mo ...more

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Mar 23, 2017 Zainab rated it really liked it

Wow!! If it wasn't for my exams I would've had finished it in an hour!
This book was brilliant! It was just so funny and I have no idea how the author managed to make jokes out of situations which one would regard as 'serious'
I loved Anna! She's sweet,witty,hilarious and what not. And the way she writes these letters it makes you feel like you're the best friend she's talking to (not really though because not most people have their best friends locked up in a mental hospital but still)
Yeah okay ...more

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Mar 12, 2017 The Dyslexic Bookworm rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: ya-fiction, fiction, realistic-fiction

DNF at 25%

I was planning on finishing this damn book since it's only 193 pages, but the main character was too annoying and too bitchy for me to even want to continue this book...

So this book tells the story of Anna, who is sent to a mental hospital by her parents for extreme anxiety. When I fist started reading this book I thought the premise was interesting, since it's being told by Anna in letters to her friend Tracy, but Anna is bitchy and whiny and the whole first half is just her having a ...more

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Nov 24, 2008 Jessica rated it it was amazing

This was one fun book.

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Jan 01, 2017 Kristen rated it it was ok

This book has been really popular in my Middle School library for the last several years, so I grabbed it to read over winter break. I figured a story about a teenage girl struggling with mental illness and meeting a bunch of interesting characters during treatment was right up my alley.

Unfortunately, Get Well Soon pales in comparison to other books with similar themes that I've read and enjoyed (Clean, It's Kind of a Funny Story, and The Memory of Light come to mind, in particular). Mental illn ...more

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Nov 14, 2007 Angie rated it liked it

Shelves: good-uns, ya

I came across Julie Halpern's first novel while browsing the offerings over at Feiwel & Friends. I was so grateful they were publishing Long May She Reign that I grabbed both Carpe Diem and Get Well Soon because if they're publishing Ellen Emerson White books they not only have superb taste, they deserve my undying loyalty. Get Well Soon tells the story of Anna Bloom, a depressed teenager whose parents commit her to a mental institution when her panic attacks get in the way of her going I came across Julie Halpern's first novel while browsing the offerings over at Feiwel & Friends. I was so grateful they were publishing Long May She Reign that I grabbed both Carpe Diem and Get Well Soon because if they're publishing Ellen Emerson White books they not only have superb taste, they deserve my undying loyalty. Get Well Soon tells the story of Anna Bloom, a depressed teenager whose parents commit her to a mental institution when her panic attacks get in the way of her going to school. Alone, overweight, and braless, Anna starts writing a series of letters to her best friend Tracy as a way of staying sane despite being surrounded by drug dealers, Satanists, pregnant cheerleaders, oh my! Anna's voice is at times bitter, amused, desperate, and uncertain. But it is always matter-of-fact. And it is this quality that is most appealing. I never got the feeling she was sugar-coating the way things were or trying to put something over on her reader. She writes all of these letters describing her experience in minute detail yet she doesn't send a single one. They stay in her room with her, her roommate Sandy, and Sandy's plastic baby Morgan. They seem to be a way of processing the unimaginable thing that has happened to her. By keeping them she can continue to review and add on to the narrative so that when it is time to go home there will be a record of how she survived. In an ironic twist of fate, life in the mental hospital turns out to be more interesting and "healthy" for Anna than it was outside. She makes friends who understand her and who do not send her "Get Well Soon" cards as though she had chicken pox or mono. Despite the absurd hospital workers and a few admittedly crazy fellow patients Anna is able to be herself. Paradoxically, the confining walls give her the space she needs to figure out not only what happened to her, but what she will do with this new-found self knowledge. I laughed repeatedly while reading about Anna and Sandy, Justin and Matt O. I felt about like Anna did when the time came to leave the hospital. I wasn't ready. A little more time in the loony bin, please. The real world can wait. But Anna had to go back home and the book had to end and I'm happy I got to spend this time with her.
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Dec 23, 2011 Najiha Mazlan rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: All teenage girls!!!

Recommended to Najiha by: my gd taste:P

Oy.

Loved this book. Really. Gosh Justin sounds so dreamy lmao and plus Anna thought he was one gorgeous hottie I envied Anna for having her first kiss with him!!! DAMNNNN.

OMG i thought this book was AMAZINGG and Anna has a really witty sense of humor I even laughed and giggled at the way she visualizes things cause' I'm like a typical teenage girl like her too!! I'm so glad I found this rad book because I could relate soo much about Anna's hormonal thoughts to mine!!! :D I also loved the chract ...more

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Nov 11, 2018 PippaT_C2 added it

I really liked this book because it gave a view of a person who wasn't the same as everyone else, and had a very different view on being in a mental institute.

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Dec 13, 2017 Megan Schumacher rated it did not like it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Personal Response
This book was horrific and should not exist. It does not accurately portray mental illness or hospitals in the slightest. There was no inner growth or recovery, and in the story people encouraged negative behavior. There was also extreme foul language that did not add to the story, but instead took away. It was a cheesy cliche romance in a mental hospital that made everything seem all fun and games. Well it's not. Not one bit. Being hospitalized is dead eyes, yelling, no privacy Personal Response
This book was horrific and should not exist. It does not accurately portray mental illness or hospitals in the slightest. There was no inner growth or recovery, and in the story people encouraged negative behavior. There was also extreme foul language that did not add to the story, but instead took away. It was a cheesy cliche romance in a mental hospital that made everything seem all fun and games. Well it's not. Not one bit. Being hospitalized is dead eyes, yelling, no privacy, people going to court, people being locked in isolation rooms, and more. I know this because of my personal experience. To turn something as serious as suicide into a joke is terrible. I looked for this book to relate to myself but it couldn't be farther from the truth. Mental illness isn't a joke. Mental illness is crying at 3 am not knowing why. It's contemplating taking your life at any given moment. It's worrying about every single thing you ingest. It's going to the hospital at 10 pm because you just took too many pills when you just give up. It's having to drink charcoal and having an EKG done while trying not to vomit. It's the police showing up because you refuse treatment. Yes, they will take you in handcuffs. Mental illness is scary and sad. Not funny or romantic.

Plot Summary
Ana Bloom is put in the hospital for supposedly being extremely depressed and having panic attacks. She writes no send letters to her friend Julie throughout the three weeks she resides at Lake View. Doctors encourage her to eat less due to being overweight. Ana meets a boy she likes named Justin. Romance ensues. Ana's roommate Sandy is pregnant and is bullied to have an abortion, only for people to find out she was faking her pregnancy. After three weeks run out from insurance coverage, Ana leaves with little different about her.

Characterization
Ana Bloom begins her stay at Lake View very judgemental of others, picking apart their appearance and qualities, mainly seeing negatives. As the story goes on however, she begins to meet people who are very friendly and relatively similar to her. This changes Ana to see that they are all in similar situations and she even begins to fall in love.

Recommendation
I would not recommend this to anybody because of it being factually incorrect. It is intended for ages 14-16 though, because of it containing romance and foul language. Because of the romance, it is more intended for females, given that the main character is female. If you must read this book, research what things are really like before diving in. ...more

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Nov 21, 2014 Brandy rated it it was ok

Shelves: realistic, 2014, teen, library, abandoned

Read a little better than half of this but don't really care how it ends. Anna is a chatty teen struggling with depression and panic attacks, recovering from suicidal inclinations in a psychiatric hospital staffed by some of the meanest and least-compassionate people available. I can't tell if this is meant as caricature or how Halpern saw the staff in her own experiences (filtered through teen eyes).

But really, I wasn't all that interested in how it turned out. for better portrayals of teens d ...more

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Aug 31, 2012 Claire rated it really liked it

Get well soon was an pretty good book. Its about a girl and she wakes up in a mental hospital and she doesn't know why she's there. during the time when she's at the mental hospital she has a crush and on her last day at the mental hospital they go on a field trip and the girl and her crush kiss, and I thought it was really sweet because she had been trying to get the kiss for a long time and she finally got it. I recommend this book to a lot of people.

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Aug 20, 2015 Sakinah rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-2015, y-a-fiction, my-english-books, audio

How lovely and hilarious.

It talks about Anna and her experience inside the mental hospital through litters she wrote for her best friend.

It was a fluffy light and funny read. The narrator in the audiobook did an awesome job really.
I enjoyed it sooo much that I am motivated to read more by this author.

5 definite stars fir the author and the narrator.

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Mar 20, 2017 Brooke Nicole rated it did not like it

Shelves: i-actually-read-romance, dark-humor, unimpressed, not-rec, normal-life

I didn't like this book much at all.. Some girl goes to a mental hospital, falls in love, ect ect. It's pretty cliche if you're asking me.. It was like reading from the perspective of a goth 12 year old (who knew too much about sex).

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Feb 05, 2016 Lois Brewer rated it really liked it

Really good , can't wait to read number 2 x

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Apr 04, 2018 Katy Boehmer-Abbott rated it really liked it

Being locked up in a building that restricts you from talking, any human interaction, and even smiling seems like torture to most people. In fact, it did to Anna once her parents abruptly sent her to a Lakeland, a mental hospital, due to her depression. Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern follows the 21 days Anna was in Lakeland. Anna was experiencing severe panic attacks due to her insecurity over her weight and “these panic attacks are the reasons why I’m [Anna] never in class [school] anymore” (5 Being locked up in a building that restricts you from talking, any human interaction, and even smiling seems like torture to most people. In fact, it did to Anna once her parents abruptly sent her to a Lakeland, a mental hospital, due to her depression. Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern follows the 21 days Anna was in Lakeland. Anna was experiencing severe panic attacks due to her insecurity over her weight and “these panic attacks are the reasons why I’m [Anna] never in class [school] anymore” (5). Due to Annas “change in behavior,” her parents sent her to a mental hospital (without forewarning.) Her time in the hospital is recorded through a letter Anna is writing to her best friend. The first few days Anna could not bear to stop crying as she slept in the hallway. After seeing a doctor (who only seemed to care about her weight, not her mental state) she was finally given her own room. Anna was finally beginning to understand the strict ways of Lakeland and even started to make friends with other teenagers who were as well locked up for various reasons (like Lawrence who worships Satan). Things start to get better when Anna gets a roommate, Sandy who Anna describes as “my trusty roommate, slightly white trash” (51). Each day is like the next with scheduled eating times and group therapy. Surprisingly Anna is enjoying life under so many restrictions and goes two weeks without a panic attack. Things get even better when Anna realizes the cutest kid in the hospital, Justin, has and is showing feelings for her (in the least awkward way since touching others is forbidden). Justin and Anna are both rewarded with their good behavior and are allowed to go on a field trip together. However, things change for the worst when Anna’s doctor announces her departure within the next few days. For most people that is thrilling news, but for Anna, it was crushing, “What about Justin? My first chance that a gorgeous guy could possibly like me, and I’ll never know because I’m leaving” and Justin will just, “fall in love with the next girl who moves onto the floor” (165). Anna does make the best of the little time left with Justin, but by day 21 she has to leave it all behind...
Julie Halpern was able to turn a story about depression into one filled with laughter. Relatable life lessons are found throughout the novel since Anna advocates that, “women have all sort of unrealistic expectation about their bodies” and "it sucks." (126). Since Get Well Soon is a letter to Anna’s best friend we are able to read Anna’s direct feelings. Through her daily updates, the reader is able to notice her improvement and are along for her journey.
This is just one of the many books focusing on mental illnesses but I would have to say it is like no other; Anna is truly an unforgettable character who you can’t help but wish she “gets well soon.” ...more

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Mar 26, 2019 Faith Wisniewski added it

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Book title: Get Well Soon

Personal Response: Personally I really liked this book. It was hilarious but yet out of the box. The author used very good vocabulary when writing this book. She was very descriptive and I got a very good picture in my head of what the setting was like and how the main character felt.

Summary: Get Well Soon is a book about a young mentally ill girl named Anna. Anna does not think there is anything wrong with her. SHe said that she just feels sad som ...more

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Jul 10, 2018 Lotte rated it did not like it

Shelves: audiobooks

I really didn't like this book tbh. I thought it would be a bit like the perks of being a wallflower or it's kind of a funny story but it was really just very lame. The main character Anna got on my nerves constantly. I understand that she's only 16 (i think) but that doesn't mean she had to be this annoying. There was also a lot of problematic shit in here. Anna herself has weight issues and considers herself fat. All the other characters call her 'juicy'..., I'm not kidding. And she is very an ...more

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Oct 15, 2018 Angelina Loschiavo added it

Personal Response: I gave this book 5 out of 5 because Get Well Soon was a good book. This book was good because it was something new for me to read. This book made me realized that life should be appreciated because it is good.

Plot: Get Well Soon started out with a girl named Anna. Anna was in a mental hospital because her parents couldn’t help her with her depression. Anna would try to not go to school and would eat her emotions. Anna’s first day in the mental hospital was not so good beca Personal Response: I gave this book 5 out of 5 because Get Well Soon was a good book. This book was good because it was something new for me to read. This book made me realized that life should be appreciated because it is good.

Plot: Get Well Soon started out with a girl named Anna. Anna was in a mental hospital because her parents couldn’t help her with her depression. Anna would try to not go to school and would eat her emotions. Anna’s first day in the mental hospital was not so good because she was scared and was crying. Anna had to be on a close watch because the mental hospital thought she was very suicidal. After the 2nd day, Anna got her own room and her clothes back. On the third day, a lady came into her room to talk to her about a group called “community” where she would talk about her feelings with a bunch of other kids her age. Anna did not have friends at first but then she became friends with Matt O’ and Justin. Anna is starting to like it at the mental hospital because she has friends, lost weight, and does not have to go to school. Her parents do not really call her but when they did she said that she is doing better and her parents said that she would be out soon but she does not want to leave anymore. Anna was acting depressed and was saying suicidal things just so then she would have to stay longer and not have to go home. Her parents took her out of the mental hospital because they missed her and wanted to have her back home.

Characterization: Anna was very depressed and suicidal at the beginning of the book because of school, she talked about suicide, and she was also gaining a lot of weight from her depression. She did not have any friends at school and she got bullied about her weight. After being in the mental hospital for 4 days she started to lose weight and become happier because she made friends and was having a good time. When her parents were going to take her out, she started not doing so well and was faking being depressed and suicidal so then she could stay. In the end, Anna was actually happy and lost weight and did not have to take meds for her depression anymore.

Recommendations: I would not recommend this book to anyone that is going through this or has depression. I recommend this book for girls and boys that are 12 and up. ...more

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Feb 07, 2018 Ryan rated it it was amazing

I enjoyed reading my 4th book about mental illness this year. It puts a new perspective on loony bins that I hadn't thought of before. They call them loony bins in the book. It also shows what type of people get thrown in a loony bin. People like drug dealers and angsty people to people that I am not going to mention because that would be a spoiler. Let me put it this way some of them are actually crazy but most arent. This book is a must-read for anyone who likes distopias or romance novels. (Y ...more

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Apr 19, 2018 Linnea rated it really liked it

i thought the ending was sort of cheesy but i thought it was clever and i’m happy about how it ended. i’m excited to start the next book.

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Jun 08, 2019 Libby Chapman rated it did not like it

An unrealistic take on mental health issues. I was disappointed by how this book trivialised real, life and death issues.

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Jan 30, 2017 Tiger Emrich rated it it was amazing

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book was amazing from start to finish. Julie Halpern wrote in such a way that makes you feel hooked. I could relate with the main character in many different ways. In fact, this book was so good that it made me want to be put in a "loony bin." That's how they refer to the mental hospital. Anna was the main character. I really liked her part because she was normal. That's probably my favorite thing about this book. Everything was normal. There were no unrealistic road trips, no super powers, This book was amazing from start to finish. Julie Halpern wrote in such a way that makes you feel hooked. I could relate with the main character in many different ways. In fact, this book was so good that it made me want to be put in a "loony bin." That's how they refer to the mental hospital. Anna was the main character. I really liked her part because she was normal. That's probably my favorite thing about this book. Everything was normal. There were no unrealistic road trips, no super powers, and no superhuman features. Do not mistake that though. I love me some superhuman features. Anyways, back to the book. I saw how much Anna developed throughout the book and I was fascinated. She was self hateful and had many panic attacks in the beginning but at the end she was fine. That was so cool to think that someone could change that much in 21 days. I really like the format this book was written in. Anna was writing to her friend Tracy and told her the whole story. It was almost like WE were Tracy. This hospital/loony bin, was called Lakeland. They had a more humorous twist on the name but I'm not about to type PROFANITY! Sorry... Anyways, this book was great. Julie made you feel the same way as Anna did. For example, the rules at Lakeland were ridiculous. Anna got in trouble for dropping a pillow. That was pretty outrageous, in my honest opinion. There were so many other dumb rules like if you want something, you have to raise two fingers instead of raising your hand. YOU HAVE TO STICK TWO FINGERS OUT OF YOUR DOOR IF YOU WANT SOMETHING!!! HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO SEE THAT?!?!? In this book, we saw many characters. All of them had very important parts. Anna's roommate, Sandy, was pregnant. Well not really... But she was forced to take care of this plastic baby. When she got fed up with it, she finally told the truth. I loved that part. It was possibly the most funny part of the book. Actually, I can't say that. I was laughing pretty hard for most of it. Like, not just in my head. I would smile, chuckle, and control my laughter. Now for the best part. Anna had a crush. And best part? He liked her back. Of course it took the whole time to realize how the other felt. *insert the emoji of the dude looking bored while looking to the right* *eye roll emoji would also work* So throughout the whole book, they found ways to touch each other. Now hold on. I don't mean this in a dirty way. Lakeland banned touching other people. Another ridiculous rule. It amazed me though. Anna was this perfect, rule following girl in the beginning but at the end she defied rules. It made me think. I related to this girl so much and if she could break the rules, why can't I? And then I remembered that that is not who I am. ANYWAYS..... I loved this book so much. The ending scene made me soooooo happy. Anna and Justin... (Justin is the mutual crush dude thing yeah). When the book ended, I was upset. I almost instantly got on the internet and did a typity type. AND DO I HAVE GOOD NEWS!!! There's a second book. Fingers crossed that the library has it. ...more

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JULIE HALPERN is the author of five young adult novels and one picture book for young readers. Maternity Leave is her first novel for adults. Prior to her life as full-time mom and author, Julie was a school librarian. In her imaginary spare time, she enjoys traveling, watching television for grown-ups, and eating baked goods. Julie lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband, author and illustr ...more