Sex Education - a Novel - Softcover

Davis, Jenny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852131489 ISBN 13: 9781852131487

Publisher: The Watts Publishing Group, 1989

Synopsis

As a project for an unusually open class in sex education, Livvie and her boyfriend David learn to care for a pregnant young neighbor, and as they become deeply involved with her and with each other, they learn about love and caring and eventually about pain and courage.When their ninth-grade sex education class is given the assignment to care about someone, Livvie Sinclair and popular David Kindler team up to aid a troubled young wife, and the youngsters discover the meaning of love

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Livvie and David are drawn to each other from the moment they meet, and their comfortable friendship quickly develops into romance. In the course of an unusual school assignment, the two teenagers become entangled in the life of Maggie, a deeply unhappy woman. A confrontation with Maggie's violent husband leads to David's death, and Livvie is faced with a future that seems bleak and hopeless. The gravity and candor with which Davis approaches life's serious issues will come as no surprise to fans of her first novel, Goodbye and Keep Cold . Livvie and David are fully developed characters and their changing relationship is depicted with great sensitivity. In contrast, both Maggie and her fragmented plight seem grafted on in order to provide the novel's tragic finish. This flaw would be easy to ignore if the author hadn't given readers of her first work such very high expectations. A Richard Jackson Book. Ages 12-up.
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About this edition

• Publisher: The Watts Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 1852131489
• ISBN 13: 9781852131487
• Binding: Paperback