Thursday, March 6, 2008

Ana's Story

by Jenna Bush
Genre: Biography


She’s seventeen. She’s been abused. She has a child. And she’s HIV-positive. She is Ana, and this is her story. It begins the day she is born infected with HIV, transmitted from her young mother. Ana’s journey is a long one. Shuffled from home to home, she rarely finds safety or love. And then she meets a boy. Berto is one of the only people Ana trusts with all her secrets. That trust puts Ana on a path to breaking the silence that has harmed her and leads her to new beginnings, new sorrows, and new hope.

Jenna Bush has written this powerful narrative nonfiction account of a girl who struggles to break free from a vicious cycle of abuse, poverty, and illness.
~from the book jacket

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

this book is so good hold it 4 me miss nelson

Mrs. Nelson said...

I don't know who this comment is from!?

Anonymous said...

this was a reallllllllllyyyyy goood book i read it on my way to springfield and it was great