Dancing Naked

by Shelley Hrdlitschka

Book Overview

Kia is sixteen and pregnant. Her world crumbles as she attempts to come to terms with the life growing inside her and what she must do. Initially convinced that abortion is her only option, Kia comes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551432102
• ISBN13: 9781551432106
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.3" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Dancing Naked - in my top ten!

This is a wonderful book - the first novel to make me cry in several years. About a pregnant girl who must decide what to do with her baby, it's heart-wrenching. The author pulled it off beautifully, until I felt I knew the character well enough to find her on the street. I highly recommend this book. It's one of the few good (and modern) teen novels. It's very absorbing. I stayed up half the night trying to finish it! It's definitely one of my favorites.

Dancing Naked

I really enjoyed Dancing Naked because its about acceptance and survival. Accepting what Kia is going though. This is acceptance because some of her friends won't accept who she is once she gets pregnant. In the story her school friends won't hang out with her and won't invite her to hang out with them or go to parties. Kia's youth group is there for her the whole way and her leader goes through the parent classes with Kia. Derek is the guy who got her pregnant. He is learning how to accept what Kia does with the child. He had to accept it because she did not do what he wanted her to do. I think it would be really hard having your boyfriend mad at you for making the right choice. He wanted her to get an abortion but she decides to put the baby up for adoption. An example of the theme survival is that people are helping Kia with her decisions. Some of the people who are helping her with her decisions are the Doc's, her parents and her priest from church. These people are helping her by talking to her about what her options are and what will happen in the future if she keeps the child. Her parents have confidence in her that she will make the right choice. I think that would be a hard part because it's your choice to do abortion, adoption, or to keep the child. It would be really hard for her because she's only 17 years old. Kia survives what she had chosen at the end of the book. I think it would be the hardest thing to make the decision whether you put it up for adoption, keep it or have an abortion. I would recommend this book to others if they like a little suspense.

Dancing Naked

This book is the best...I was walking around in the library hyper and then i read a cover; Dancing Naked. Laughing I read the back. It seemed interesting. For the characters in the book had so much in common with me; besides the fact that she's pregnant. I really felt the connection with her feelings. If you just want a good read you should read this book. I got so hooked, i read it in one day. SHhH don't tell anyone bhut i loved the book so much that I never returned the book from the LIBRARY

Awesome....

My granddaughter had read this and said "Grandma, you just have to read this!" which I did - without stopping. I shed some very heartfelt tears...it is an excellent book.

inspiring

This book was so very good i could not even put it down. it holds such a strong message in the end and leaves you in tears and thinking! I gave me a whole diffrent look upon things! i suggest it to all teens specially girls who are mayebe feeling down. but anyone can read it!