About David

Hi! I am a 15 1/2 year old girl! I felt deeply for Lynn. She remined me that you should cherish your friendships and love your parent. David was a troulbed boy because his parent treated him badly and pushed him way to far! Being a kid myself I understand that all we want to do is please our parents but sometimes they just will push us to far and to our limits. Like David most kids want to be the only child and i was sure he was just jelous but that is no reason to going around killing your parents. If david did not want Lorraine to have anymore kids and treat the new born the way they were treating him he could have went to a foster care agency or somewhere else where they can help with those kind of problems. I understand what is like to be a foster child but I as well was adopted like David.... But what I do when my parents are pushing me to much or annoying me to much i let them know. I don't run away to another family and hide out or go to some place I will think they would never look. It was more troubling for lynn to found out david let all of his secrets to her. That broght a great deal of pain by the end of the novel. The novel ends up letting Lynn act like a normal teenager but to be a little more reserved than she would have been. Bill was a great influence on her becoming a normal teenager.

This book is great book because it gets you to feel like your best friend has just died. She has to deal with everyone at school and herself. This book is for ages 11-16. It is about a girl named Lynn whose best friend, David, kills his parents then himself. She just shuts down after it happens. She can't remember what they talked about the day he did it. She can't sit in the cafeteria or ride her bike past his house. She also has to see a shrink, named Dr. Collins. She must adjust to life without David. Will she ever get over David? Just read the book "About David."

Lynn handled things as I would have handled them Reading the story really took me right into the story with Lynn as she tried to understand why David had doen what he did. Her devastation led her to fall apart. Her relationship with David never went away but the fact that he was gone made her realize that he wasn't going to come back. Her last dream of David let her know that he was at peace for once.

An excellent suspense novel, About David deals with teens in the 90's coping with a close friend's suicide. Lynn, the main character, has just lost her long time best friend due to suicide. Horrible as this is , more terrible is that he not only killed himself, he also murdered his parents. Jeffery, close friend of David, cannot cope with all the pressure in school, all the rumors, and his only friend's death. He has a nervous breakdown. The school is in chaos; newspaper reports spread fake rumors. Lynn is terribly saddened. Luckily she has her friend Steffi, parents, and shrink, Dr. Collins, to help her feel better. The best part of this novel is when David's notebook and diaries are suddenly found in Lynn's attic. She has to read them through and find out why David actully killed himself. I personally enjoyed reading this novel; it caught my attention. It's an easy to understand novel, with interesting problems going on. It's clear and very exciting to read. Read it , I recommend it!.