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Title:America
Author:E.R. Frank
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 242 pages
Published:August 1st 2003 by Turtleback Books (first published February 1st 2002)
Categories:Young Adult. Realistic Fiction. Mental Health. Mental Illness. Teen. Literature. Banned Books

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America starts off as a book about a 15 year old boy who is in some sort of mental home. He is what you might typically picture when you picture the "bad boy" that has depression and tried to kill himself. He's stubborn, he curses all the time, and he refuses to talk to his therapist. He even occasionally throws chairs or other things.

However, the novel alternates between the present time, and America in the mental hospital, and the past. We learn that America was a crack baby, and grew up with a foster parent until he was in Kindergarten. He ten goes to visit his mother, who promptly abandons him to his older brothers (around ages 7 and 9). The three boys live on their own for 2 years. We continue to learn about America's past, and all of the horrible things he endured. In many ways we become sympathetic.


Although I kept wanting to read and find out more, I was also very disturbed while I was reading. I feel like you expect the story to go one way: you think that there’s the bad side, which is his mother, the drug addict, and two older brothers who have been living on their own for years from the age of 7, and then there’s the good side, which is sweet Mrs. Harper who takes good care of him. However, the “good side” isn’t all that good. Browning, Mrs. Harper’s half brother, really turns out to be a terrible person. He not only allows this 7 year old to drink alcohol, he also makes him read dirty magazines. What’s worse is that Browning also starts sexually abusing him. Turns out that living at Mrs. Harper’s isn’t so much better than living with his mother.

It really got me thinking about how important it is to raise children the right way. Of course you can’t always be perfect, but having a positive influence is so essential. The sad thing is, there are children who don’t have this positive influence. You can really see how America is learning the wrong things about life. Sometimes it seemed like he didn’t do what was right because he didn’t know any better, or people told him that it was wrong. For instance, when Browning told him not to bother Mrs. Harper, he was too young to realize that he really should go and talk to her. In many ways, I found myself blaming Mrs. Harper. Maybe that’s horrible to say, but if she was that old, and in that poor medical condition, she probably shouldn’t have been adopting a young boy. Aside from that, she should never have entrusted him to Browning. She may not have known that he was sexually abusive, but she certainly did know that he was an alcoholic and chain smoker. I’m not sure why she thought it was okay to leave America in his hands, instead of trying to find someone that could truly take care of him.

This book allowed me to see things from a point of view I might not normally see from. While it was disturbing, it was also interesting and at least a little bit hopeful at the end.


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Original Title: America
ISBN: 0613664760 (ISBN13: 9780613664769)
Edition Language: English
Setting: United States of America
Literary Awards: Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2004), Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (2003), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Jugendbuch (2006)

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This book was really confusing at first because when I started reading it I didn't knew what it was talking about and I got kind of lost. After a few days reading the book I founded interesting and easy to read, I just needed to get into it and comprehend every thing it was talking about. In my opinion I liked this book a lot because it really got my attention and I got to learn a lot from it. One of the things I learned from this book was not to give up in yourself. I know this might be hard

Powerful, compelling, and sad.

I once knew a boy like America, he was befrinded then abused by a male counsleor at a boy's home. The only diffrence between them were America tried to kill himself. My brohter slowly killed himself with alcohol and drugs. So as I read about America it cut like a knife.

This book was published on August 1st, 2003 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. The author of this book is E.R Frank. This book was made in a series of books. This book starts with a child named America. America had gone through with a lot of hard times when he was a child to the age of 18. It was so bad no child shouldve gone through it. I like a couple of things about the book and dislike a couple. The first thing I like is how they input his whole past in the book and show what he has

America is a gritty, raw, real, and emotionally heartbreaking story. The story begins with a teenage America in a treatment facility after a failed suicide attempt. It alternates between the present mostly his therapy sessions with Dr. B. and the past. At first, the shift from present to past confused me mainly because the flashbacks were at bit unclear in the prologue. It finally cleared up as the chapters were clearly labeled "Then" and "Now". Born to a crack addict mother, America was raised

America starts off as a book about a 15 year old boy who is in some sort of mental home. He is what you might typically picture when you picture the "bad boy" that has depression and tried to kill himself. He's stubborn, he curses all the time, and he refuses to talk to his therapist. He even occasionally throws chairs or other things.However, the novel alternates between the present time, and America in the mental hospital, and the past. We learn that America was a crack baby, and grew up with

This book was amazing. The book is from first person and in the eye of a young man. The teen or at times little boy is speaking as an orphan struggling to understand his life. Because the author starts the story in the middle of the characters life it's not clear how he had gotten to that point in the story. Having the story written this way makes the plot a mystery and more interesting and keeps the reader engaged and curious. On to the meat of the book: the author did a slam dunk job! I want