The Go Between eBook Richard Read
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The Go Between would appeal to teens between thirteen and sixteen. In the story, the protagonist is fifteen, almost sixteen, his girl friend is fourteen, and his sister who plays a major role in the story is thirteen. Parents may also find this book helpful as a springboard for discussion with teen children on risky sexual behavior encountered in the early teen years.
Bill McCoy believes that his major winter challenge will be surviving two weeks of being the wrestling "dummy" for Blake Proper. Bill, a sophomore at Lionwood High, is committed to helping prepare his senior teammate for making a run at the state wrestling championship. On a daily basis, Bill knows he will be pummeled and pinned when the two boys work together after school on the school's wrestling mats. However, a bigger challenge for Bill arises when his thirteen-year-old sister, Diana, is accused of coercing younger brother, Jack, into an inappropriate sexual act. Bill's overbearing dictatorial father reacts to the news about his son and daughter in a characteristically irrational fashion. He refuses to allow Diana to reside any longer in the McCoy home and blocks Mrs. McCoy's desire to visit Diana when Diana is temporarily assigned by the juvenile court system to a juvenile detention center. When Diana disavows her involvement with her younger brother to Diana's court appointed therapist, Carrie Thompson, Bill becomes the go-between. He seeks help in his role of diplomatic liaison between his parents and Carrie and his sister from Susan Myers with whom he has developed a tentative, budding romance. Susan's and Bill's relationship, rapidly strengthening by their respect and concern for each other, is juxtaposed with the debilitating and gradually disintegrating relationship of Bill's father and mother. Bill's maturation is evident as he struggles to assist in the healing of his sister, to deal with his difficult father, and to manage his own romance. The Go Between also reveals both a family whose unstable relationships are exposed and shattered by the ill conceived behavior of daughter with son and the processes followed by social services in their attempts to remedy the emotional damage that results from the family's incest. The story also tactfully illuminates a current trend in the sexual experimentation of high school students.
The Go Between eBook Richard Read
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this is a very good book. if i didnt have to give it back to the person i borrowed it from, i would have re-read it
Wonderfully written book by this author, keeps the reader engaged and is a good book for young adults.
I think this was a great book. I was interested in reading it since the time I started reading it. I highly recommend others reading this book. It is a great story about a teen boy and the troubles he has to go through. I recommend this book to teenagers and adults of any age. This is a must read book. I liked it because I kept wanting to find out what would happed to Diana the main characters sister who was involved in a abusive situation.
Bill comes home from wrestling practice and finds his world turned upside down. His 9-year old brother Jack made a sexually explicit art project at school and, when asked, said their 13-year old sister, Diana, was one of the people represented in the art. Believing Diana must have been abused (just showing your sister a picture of a sex act is considered abusive, apparently), the system moves into gear and a case worker from Chilren Services begins to "investigate." I am using quotation marks because it is quite clear that the investigator believes Bill abused Diana and she in turn abused Jack. I realize abuse is a real issue and attempting a fictional account that might appeal to teens is noteworthy, I just thought the kids were too old. Most 13-year olds know about all sorts of sex acts because that's basically what middle schoolers talk about. Just as an example, 2 kids at my daughter's middle school were caught on tape performing non-academic acts on the school stage--they were suspended but no one asked how they "knew" about this, no investigators were called in. In fact, the schools themselves are pushing this knowledge onto kids at a younger and younger age, often against the parents' will! So the idea that just because Diana knows what oral sex is means that her older brother abused her made no sense to me. Also, 9-year olds do lie to get out of trouble all the time (the investigator says "a boy Jack's age wouldn't make it up"--that's just not true). All that to say, the two younger kids are way too old for this to make sense in an age where oral sex is a punch line for nearly every tv show, even in the 8 pm time slot, the so-called "family hour." Maybe if the girl was 9 and the younger boy was 5 I would be more accepting of the concept--of course, I don't know what's going to happen later on in the book, i.e., if the kids have to be older for some other reason not clear at this point, but I would not get past this basic problem and read further.
Also, I know the father is supposed to be a hot head, but his immediate instinct to want to kick out his daughter and beat up his son just didn't ring true to me. Why would he be so quick to believe what this total stranger says? If he'd beaten up the investigator for his insinuations, THAT I might have believed. (Unless the father is the abuser, of course, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.) It seemed that his irrational anger is almost a contrived set-up so the plot can proceed and the boy can become the "go-between."
On a totally different note, I think the text needs some editing, some of the sentence construction is a bit awkward. For example, the name "Bill" is repeated way too many times, sometimes 3 lines in a row, sometimes very oddly/ambiguously, as in, "Bill watched as his father fumed but did not make another physical attempt to get to Bill."
In terms of whether this would appeal to teens, it's hard to say without reading more--the excerpt seems more about the "system" and the "investigation" so far, which would probably be more interesting to adults than to teens. Based on the title it seems like the story will focus more on Bill's growth as the story progresses, which would be more interesting to kids, but if the focus is more on social services and the "system" I'm guessing this would mostly attract adult readers.
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