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Gabe is the best looking guy in school--that's why his friends send him to get girls to their party. Helen is not much to look at--that's why her friends want her to come along. But Helen gets under Gabe's skin in a way no other girl has.
It was one night. One night with lasting consequences. Now Helen has to decide if she wants to keep the baby--and if she should tell Gabe, who hasn't spoken to her since their one night together.
Filled with love, fear, and the tough choices born of casual acts, One Night is a passionate and compellingly readable novel about teen life, the hardships of parenthood--and the joy and forgiveness between family and friends. From the Hardcover edition.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 9 Up-Angry at his mother for deserting him, hunky Gabe treats the many girls he meets with a "love them and leave them" attitude. He and his buddies function as a well-oiled machine when it comes to throwing parties, hiding the dysfunction in their families and their personalities behind a smooth facade. Helen, who was born with a disfigured face, hopes to become a plastic surgeon someday. After a one-night stand with Gabe, her world is shattered when she finds that she is pregnant. Written in verse, the book details each small failure and success along the journey toward Gabe and Helen feeling comfortable in the world again. The book takes a sensitive and thoughtful look at a number of other characters as well, each of whom has been betrayed in some way and is dealing, or refusing to deal, with the grief of the situation. Teen readers will love this story and will appreciate its hopeful ending.-Catherine Ensley, Latah County Free Library District, Moscow, ID (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Australian author Wild (Jinx) pens a free-verse problem novel about two teens who accidentally become parents after hooking up one night at a party. The book divides into three parts, the first of which centers on Gabe, who's cold but has a self-proclaimed "devastating smile." He meets Helen, who has a "damaged face" but, he admits, "saw into my soul." In the next part, told mainly from Helen's perspective, she realizes she's pregnant but cannot get Gabe on the phone to tell him. After fighting with her dad, she leaves home and finds a new family in a rundown boarding house, where she begins raising her son. In the final section, Gabe and Helen reconnect, confronting their problems and their futures. Gabe and Helen don't have a monopoly on difficulties, either; Wild also dissects both characters' parents' marriages. And, among other characters, Gabe says his best friend Al's name is "short for Alan and Alcohol"; Helen's new landlady has a drug-addicted granddaughter; and one boarder keeps expecting his dead son to visit. The verse can be startlingly perceptive (Helen, unable to breastfeed her son, feels judged by other mothers who "unbutton their blouses/ with milky complacency"). The author quickly captures multiple voices and points of view, and while some plot elements strain credibility, the teen-pleasing insights and fast pace outweigh the soap-opera touches. Ages 12-up. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
At a party, gorgeous but hollow Gabe meets Helen, who has a ""damaged face"" but an ""electrifying"" smile, and a baby results. Wild's moving free-verse novel uses multiple voices to tell the teens' ultimately redemptive story and to narrate the parallel personal crises of family members and friends. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus评论
A confused novel-in-verse explores the personalities of four archetypical high-school students and the consequences of one-night flings. Gabe is the gorgeous member of a trio of friends who throw parties. His job is to invite as many pretty girls as he can attract. Bram is the calculating mastermind and Al supplies the booze. Helen is the independent loner who gets pregnant one night. Free-verse poems describe these and other characters, sometimes in first-person and sometimes in third. Divided into three unequal sections, the story lacks structure, as side characters butt in at awkward moments, and as a lack of depth and context to the story make each character's neatly tied-up ending seem far too purposeful. Though the verse allows Wild to vividly capture the emotions of these teens, the story she's trying to tell requires a novel's structure and complexity, never realized here. Poetry sequence or novel--it fails either way. (Fiction. YA) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 9-12. Wild returns to the novel-in-verse form that she used in Jinx 0 (2002) in this story about teen pregnancy. Spare, lyrical poems that shift between first-person and third-person perspectives introduce a group of party-throwing boys--Gabe, Al, and Bram. Helen is the girl who falls for Gabe, and when she discovers her pregnancy after their one-night stand, the story shifts to her crisis. Deciding against abortion, she is rejected by her family, and Gabe, who won't take her calls, isn't even aware of the baby. She finds a job and a rooming house owned by elderly Mrs. Evans, who helps care for the baby when he arrives. As Helen tries to knit together Mrs. Evans' broken relationships, she begins to repair her own. The large cast results in some superficial characters and motives, but Wild's poetry has moments of exceptional beauty, and the best scenes, though briefly glimpsed, shimmer with startling, intense feeling. For another view of teen parenthood suggest Angela Johnson's The First Part Last 0 BKL S 1 2003. --Gillian Engberg Copyright 2004 Booklist