The Healing Time of Hickeys

by Karen Rivers and Alex Brown

Haley Andromeda is 16, and in her last year of high school - "The Greatest Year of My Life," or TGYML. Haley likes to think she's just a normal girl, plagued with all the normal doubts of a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551926008
• ISBN13: 9781551926001
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Raincoast Books
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.3" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

Customer Reviews

No more than 4

This book is about a 16 yr. old girl starting off her senior year of highschool. Haley is a slight hypochondriac, and that brings a lot of humour to the book because in one passage her father tells her that hypochondria is a sickness and to look it up. Refering to the numerous times she searches on Medline. Such as when she tripped over her cat and thought to possibly have Cat Scratch Disease. She writes in her diary (aka her laptop), adressing it as JT junior (junior for short/ protection)nearly everyday about her life. She writes about her friends and their problems, about her father and his ability to have money but no real job, how her mother left her and her search to find her, her obession with JT, and the chicken pox which she got from the boy that gave her the infamous hickeys that just don't seem to disappear. My only disappointment in this book is on the back with the discription. Sure, she contacts a spirit through the Ouija board a few times, but she's not "that" into it. Nothing really happens, in fact, it takes up barely in part in the plot. It seemed to just be stuffed in there to take up a line or twenty throught the entire 2nd half of the book.

Read Haley's Diary!

Have you ever kept a diary? In the book The Healing Time of Hickeys by Karen Rivers you get a chance to enter Haley's diary. Haley is a 16 year old girl who keeps a diary on her laptop computer. She names her diary Junior JT after her crush JT, but she calls her diary Junior for short. This is one of the funniest books I have ever read! If you like hilarious books or even hilarious movies, I highly recommend you read this book. Haley has never met her mom and liives with her dad who is a hippie. Her mom left her when she was a baby with her dad. Along the way, Haley gets the chicken pox, an awful haircut, and into a dilemma with a Ouija board. Will Haley ever meet her mom? Will Haley ever get her crush to fall in love with her? Will Haley ever find out what the healing time of hickeys is? You'll have to read this book to find out!

Pretty halarious.

Haley Andromeda was a typical teenage girl. Except for her dad being a hippie and growing pot in the basement, her having a hopeless crush on JT, one of the cutest guys in school, and being prone to hickey's from a Cutish Stanger. Ok, so she isn't so normal, but this book is definately halarious. I picked it up on one of my book store trips, and I've read it twice since then! Read it, you won't regret it.