True Blue Forever by Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
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- Age Range: Young Adult
- Pub. Date: November 2005
- 452pp
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: November 2005
- Publisher: Authors Ink Books
- Format: Paperback, 452pp
- Age Range: Young Adult
- ISBN-13: 9780972238595
- ISBN: 097223859X
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"Someday, she'll be my girl." At the fifth grade honors program, three eleven-year-old boys are captivated by a brilliant little red-haired girl named Jeana Russell as she recites the poem she wrote, and each boy vows to win her heart. As they grow up on the Alabama Gulf Coast in the late seventies, one of the boys becomes Jeana's best friend, one breaks her heart, and one becomes the love of her life. Jeana is an unpretentious heroine struggling to deal with the volatile and sometimes violent relationships the boys have with each other and with her. The road she travels to adulthood is paved with laughter, joy, tears, and heartache, as well as tough choices and their resulting consequences, but Jeana holds on through it all to the one thing she never questions: a love that's true blue.
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Joyce Sterling Scarbrough's True Blue Forever is a sweet book filled with beautifully drawn, believable and likeable characters.—Elaine Broome
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True Blue Foreverby Anonymous
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March 17, 2006: Eleven year old Jeana Russell recites a poem written from the heart at a fifth grade honors program. Three boys in the audience fall hopelessly in love with the pretty redhead, each one of them vowing that one day she will be their girl. True Blue Forever follows the teenage years of these four friends, Jeanna, Mickey, Wade and Billy Joe, as they journey through their teenage years in the late 1970s. Jeanna must deal with the different expectations each boy has of her, while maintaining the one relationship she sees as 'true blue'. Although this book deals with the lives and loves of teenagers, it is plainly written for adults, and is truly addictive reading. True Blue Forever is well written, full of emotion, humor and heartache. I am really looking forward to reading more from this author.
A Pleasure to Readby Anonymous
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May 10, 2004: Joyce Scarbrough knows all the emotional buttons to push. Reading her fast-moving tale of four teens working their ways through those difficult years, I laughed and wept. I pulled for the protagonists and railed at the villains. And I was thoroughly entertained. It even has a happy ending. Of course, the characters are too good to be true. As a father of four who went through their teens at precisely the same time, I found myself comparing Jeanna and Mickey to Skip, Wendy, Jeff and Marty, all of whom are now productive and responsible adults in their 40?s. But back then their language was vile, they all experimented with drugs and took GED tests to get out of high school early, and protested for or against whatever the cause celebre of the day was. So True Blue Forever is fiction, which is precisely what the author claims it to be. Jeanna and Mickey are more virtuous than real life; Billy Joe funnier; Wade meaner, although through an interesting twist he undergoes a transformation before the story ends. Read True Blue Forever for pleasure. I would rate it suitable for anybody over the age of 12, considering the times we live in. Tom Elkins www.authorsden.com/tomelkins
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