Beginner's Love

by Norma Klein

Book Overview

A frank, contemporary novel about a young couple experiencing love and sexual awakening for the first time. With candor and grace, BEGINNERS' LOVE explores the excitement and joy of a new relationship as well as the problems that can arise when two people are old enough for passion but too young to deal with its complications.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449702375
• ISBN13: 9780449702376
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 10 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Certainly opened my eyes as a young teenager

I read this book when I was 14, it was the type of book that young girls giggled about and passed round the class to read then held many a discussion, following the reading of the book, during lunch hours.The book contains many detailed descriptions of both having sex for the first time and learning how to deal with the complications that may arise from maybe 'growing up too fast'.Leda and Joel are 2 young teenagers experiencing sexual behaviour for the first time and the book tells how they come to terms with young sex.......This book is great and I would highly recommend reading it.

If you liked Judy Blume's "Forever..."

I read this when I was in the 8th grade, and oh my lord it was too hot for my virgin eyes. A lot of graphic sex and language is in store for you, so beware. Leda is a New York psycho hose beast, and Joel is a shy/quiet virgin nerd. We all know what happens with the quiet ones, don't we? I loved this book, and I still read it today. I recommend it only to those ages 15 and up.