Reviewed by Marta Morrison for TeensReadToo.com
Emma was raised by her single mom in a small town in the middle of Illinois. She goes to a private Christian high school which is socially ruled by the local minister's daughter, Darci. She has a damaged relationship with her best friend, Joann, and her boyfriend, Colin.
Everything was going fine until at Christmas Emma and Colin kissed. Even though the kiss was in a mall in a different town, it happened right in front of Joann's mother.
Now Emma runs track and wants to get a full ride scholarship to Northwestern University. She wants out. Then Darci and her BFF, Kimberly, do something outrageous and Emma is the witness.
Should she tell what she knows even if it means that she might lose her scholarship? She keeps trying to figure out what it means to do the right thing.
I enjoyed this book very much. It has a great lesson about what is important, that being a person with a lot of integrity is more important than many other things in life. Emma has to do what is right and it is a scary thought.
Read WHAT WOULD EMMA DO? It is one story that is going to stay with me for a long time.
Emma was raised by her single mom in a small town in the middle of Illinois. She goes to a private Christian high school which is socially ruled by the local minister's daughter, Darci. She has a damaged relationship with her best friend, Joann, and her boyfriend, Colin.
Everything was going fine until at Christmas Emma and Colin kissed. Even though the kiss was in a mall in a different town, it happened right in front of Joann's mother.
Now Emma runs track and wants to get a full ride scholarship to Northwestern University. She wants out. Then Darci and her BFF, Kimberly, do something outrageous and Emma is the witness.
Should she tell what she knows even if it means that she might lose her scholarship? She keeps trying to figure out what it means to do the right thing.
I enjoyed this book very much. It has a great lesson about what is important, that being a person with a lot of integrity is more important than many other things in life. Emma has to do what is right and it is a scary thought.
Read WHAT WOULD EMMA DO? It is one story that is going to stay with me for a long time.
While this isn't something I would have normally picked up, I'm glad I did. It was a refreshing YA read. Very good.
What Would Emma Do? was a compelling and convincing book. With characters that could have walked straight out of my high school, it was a nice light read that had me laughing out loud in public. Great book, one of my favorites and I would recommend this book to everyone out there! :)
I absolutely loved this book. I loved Emma, she was innocent and blunt, and I feel like I could relate to her a lot, and that's always a plus.
She kissed her best friends boyfriend. Even though that sounds horrible, it's not like she meant for it to happen. Her & Colin were best friends long before her and Joann were, and HE kissed HER and admitted that he has had feelings for her for a very long time. But even though Emma thinks she does for him, a new guy comes into the picture. Sounds like your typical young adult romance, which I love, except when they sound all the same, but this one doesn't. This book shows you the view of religion and how crazy some religious people really are.
(Don't get me wrong here, I'm a Christian, I'm just not a "really deep" one. I don't goto church all the time or preach to everyone in my path.) But, anyway. This book shows how some schools/religious people really are TOO judgmental, they really can be and we all know it. That's why I love the honesty in this book, it shows you how hard it is for some teenagers to accept the fact of God when people are continually SHOVING religion in their faces. They know someone is up there but they have questions, they are confused. But in this book, as in some places in real life, people view this is being "atheist". Really? Everyone has questions, especially Emma in this novel, and she doesn't get the answers she needs. (Do we all EVER?) She's struggling and no one seems to be listening to her. Yet, Darci, little miss "preacher's daughter" is not being what she claims to be. Typical, right? Most preacher's daughters seem to be that way, but in the novel you can tell that Darci is a hypocrite.
I love this book, I don't care how many super religious people will judge me for that. It's honest, heart-warming & hilarious.
She kissed her best friends boyfriend. Even though that sounds horrible, it's not like she meant for it to happen. Her & Colin were best friends long before her and Joann were, and HE kissed HER and admitted that he has had feelings for her for a very long time. But even though Emma thinks she does for him, a new guy comes into the picture. Sounds like your typical young adult romance, which I love, except when they sound all the same, but this one doesn't. This book shows you the view of religion and how crazy some religious people really are.
(Don't get me wrong here, I'm a Christian, I'm just not a "really deep" one. I don't goto church all the time or preach to everyone in my path.) But, anyway. This book shows how some schools/religious people really are TOO judgmental, they really can be and we all know it. That's why I love the honesty in this book, it shows you how hard it is for some teenagers to accept the fact of God when people are continually SHOVING religion in their faces. They know someone is up there but they have questions, they are confused. But in this book, as in some places in real life, people view this is being "atheist". Really? Everyone has questions, especially Emma in this novel, and she doesn't get the answers she needs. (Do we all EVER?) She's struggling and no one seems to be listening to her. Yet, Darci, little miss "preacher's daughter" is not being what she claims to be. Typical, right? Most preacher's daughters seem to be that way, but in the novel you can tell that Darci is a hypocrite.
I love this book, I don't care how many super religious people will judge me for that. It's honest, heart-warming & hilarious.
