Someday I'll Laugh about This

by Linda Crew

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385300832
• ISBN13: 9780385300834
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

"Someday I'll Laugh" an unlikely masterpiece

With so many Judy Blume-style "coming of age" stories out there - young girl finds herself becoming interested in boys, gets her period for the first time, deals with the trials and tribulations of adolescence, eventually comes to some sort of peace with the idea of growing up, end of story - one finds it hard to imagine anyone could write a story in that same vein and make it interesting."Someday I'll Laugh About This," however, is not only interesting, but also funny, surprising, bittersweet, and touching (sometimes all at once). The story centers on twelve-year-old Shelby Graham, who takes a vacation every summer with her immediate family and her aunt, uncle and cousins at an Oregon beach cottage called Sea Haven. Although Shelby does deal with the aforementioned, oft-written-about adolescent issues, author Linda Crew has managed to chronicle her heroine's summer in such a way as to make the topics seem like unchartered ground. All the characters are interesting and multi-faceted, most notably Shelby's precocious five-year-old cousin, Brandon; her mother, Nancy; and cousin Kirsten's friend Tanya Dymond.I hesitate to give away much of the plot, because an outline is already given in the editorial review above and to give away any more would be spoiling it. This book simply needs to be read. Congratulations to Ms. Crew; she did an inspired job.

Someday I'll Laugh About This

Wow! This is an amazing book. I wish there was a sequel...prequel...whatever!What happens in this book is that Shelby is visiting her cousins, aunts, and uncles in a cabin that her family has owned for years and years--her great-grandfather built it! She's so excited about seeing her cousins. Her one-year-older cousin, Kristen, though, has really changed. She talks about her boyfriend almost nonstop, who had told her "it's death to be apart". Plus, she spends her money all on makeup and fashion magazines with stupid quizzes. Then she meets Tanya Dymond!Tanya is so grown-up and is terribly mean and sarcastic. Plus, her father is tearing down a path that had been used for as long as Shelby's family has been there!Shelby also has to face the fact that her favorite uncle, Jack, is getting married, and she's afraid of loosing him.

A good book

The book was funny, and I love Linda Crew. Children of the River was a masterpiece!