Title: Sexist, Biased, and Inappropriate for Teenagers
Product review: This book was supposed to be a teaching tool for teenagers. But after I finished reading it, I had more questions than answers. First off, when the girl tells her mother she's been raped, why doesn't she take her daughter to the hospital or Rape Crisis Center? Why don't they report the rape to the police? How did the rapist give her full-blown AIDS? Why doesn't the mother have her tested right away for HIV?When we teach kids about sex, drugs, AIDS, rape, and all the other troubles in life, we have one goal in mind; we have to teach them what to do in an emergency. This book teaches the kids what NOT to do in an emergency!Along with every other Beatrice Sparks book, I would censor this and remove it from the school library. If you are the parent of an impressionable teenager, I would advise NOT giving him/her this book to read.
Would you say this review depicts the product in a flattering or unflattering light?
