Telling Christina Goodbye

by Lurlene McDaniel

Book Overview

Trisha Thompson and her best friend Christina are having a great senior year. Trisha and her boyfriend, Cody, are making plans to attend Indiana University together in the fall, while Christina has... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553570870
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Laurel Leaf
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.9" x 0.5" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

WOW

Telling Christina Goodbye is one of those books that you cry while your reading it. It made me realize just how short life really is. Lurlene has a way of making you ask yourself what kind of life you really want to live. I loved this book and couldn't put it down. Read it it will change your life forever.

"Telling Christina Goodbye"

This is the most touching book i have ever read. It is so real and yet its only a book. Im not the kind of person that cries while reading a book or even watching a sad movie. But i know i sure did cry quite a bit while reading this book. i dont know if its b/c i came very close to losing my best friend a couple of years ago and i was juss thinking about how i could be going through the same thing trisha is or the fact that i juss got so involved in the book which is truly one of the best books ive ever read. i have to say ive read some awesome books but i think this one hit me hard and its like i knew these people. i think id have to recommend this book to anyone and everyone that is of course old enough and isnt afraid to cry a little. or maybe a lot. anyway this is definitely a book that every teenager should read juss to maybe wake some of you up and make you realize that it CAN happen to you no matter what you think or how perfect your life may be. Lurlene McDaniel is definitely one of my newfound favorite writers.God Bless...

Wow...

"Telling Christina Goodbye" is quite possibly one of Lurlene McDaniel's best books. You're hooked with the first page, and the events that occur don't let you stop reading.Trisha and her boyfriend Cody go with Christina, Trisha's best friend, and Christina's boyfriend Tucker, to a basketball game. But on the way home, the car slides on a patch of black ice, and nothing remains the same afterwards.

A luring read!

Telling Christina Goodbye is the story of three teens, Trisha, Cody and Tucker, struggling to move on through senior year after their lives are changed one night in a fatal accident leading to the death of their close friend Christina. Tucker Hanson, Christina's demanding boyfriend, was driving the four of them home one night when his car hit a patch of black-ice and over-turned killing Christina, leaving Cody in a coma, injuring Trisha, but barely sratching Tucker. Trisha struggles to remeber the detials of that horrifying night, but can't. Was it really an accident? Will they find the will to move on? Telling Christina Goodbye will keep you keep you turning the page again and again! This is must read!

Another Great McDaniel Book

Telling Christina Good-bye is another great book by Lurlene McDaniel. All of her books are really good, but in this one you could really identify with the main character, Trisha, as she struggles to "say good-bye" to her best friend by holding on to the memories she has. In the book you feel the pain and hurt when her boyfried doesn't recoginize her, and you can relate to how she is always there to help her best friend deal with her not-so-nice boyfriend. The reader can also feel Trisha's shock when she finds out the accident was really Tucker's fault and in a way Christina's. McDaniel rights stronly about an everyday girl whose life is turned around when a car accident leaves her injured, her boyfriend in a coma, and her best friend dead. This strays from the topic of illness that her books are normally about, but she still keeps the idea about death and how percious our life really is. If anything her point comes through stronger in this novel because the character that died didn't have the prolonged death and chance to say good-bye that most dying characters normally have in her books. The book shows how you that life can be normal one minuet and change in a split second, nevering being the same again.