Because of Lissa: Hotline Book 1 (Advanced Reading Copy)

Meyer, Carolyn

ISBN 10: 0553288024 / ISBN 13: 9780553288025

Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers - Laurel-Leaf Books, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1990

About this Item

This is an Advanced Reading Copy. Book is clean with a square, tight binding and bright pages . Front cover has a spot and a smudge, Part I Lissa, Part II Afterward, Part III Dark Rooms, Part 3-A Temporary, Part V Autumn Ball. Written as a diary Monday September 2 throu Sunday October 16. A story of teen-agers confronting the suicide death of a classmate. We are donsbookstore in Albuquerque New Mexico. The book you see in the image is the actual book we have for sale. When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Because of Lissa: Hotline Book 1 (Advanced Reading Copy)
• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers - Laurel-Leaf Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553288024
• ISBN 13: 9780553288025
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: Advance Reading Copy
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In memory of sixteen-year-old Lissa Mainzer, who suddenly and without warning commits suicide, Lissa's friends decide to establish a hotline for teens in order to help others in crisis situations

Reviews

Grade 6-9-- Lissa, 16, a seemingly happy but quiet teenager, commits suicide, leaving her closest friends bewildered and confused. Reflecting upon some of their past conversations with Lissa and feeling guilty for not having recognized her warnings, the teens decide to take action towards helping others in distress. They establish Ears, a telephone hotline at their high school, and make it a success in spite of the pessimism of the authorities. In a time span of six weeks, suspense builds as readers share common concerns with the protagonists. Whether Ears will survive and how the teens will manage their lives while maintaining the hotline sets the scene and provides fodder for this new series. Strong characterizations, realistic conversations, interesting subplots, and unresolved conflicts make the book difficult to put down. Meyer offers a candid, well-researched account concerning the causes and prevention of teen suicide without the didacticism and morbidity that often hamper books of this sort. YAs will welcome this book, as it offers a solution with sensitivity and understanding. --Linda Zoppa, Queens College Laboratory Schools
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Teen suicide is the theme of this first book in the Hotline series, which concerns high schoolers helping troubled classmates via a telephone hotline. After learning of her best friend Lissa's suicide, Jenny, 17, attempts to understand what motivated so drastic an action. Determined that other students not succumb to the despair Lissa must have privately experienced, Jenny and three friends launch "Ears," a school-sponsored project aimed at listening to the problems of anonymous callers. Although Jenny is the central figure, the narrative is shared by the four characters, which tends to diffuse the story's intensity. Moreover, Lissa could have been drawn more definitively: she and her relationships, presented through flashbacks, seem insubstantial. But although her dialogue occasionally misses its mark, Meyer deserves praise for devoting her latest novel to a disturbing and escalating issue. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.