Teachers-Does anyone know what the title of this book is?
I have searched for years (amazon and google) and I’d like to use it for teens likely to enter abusive relationships. The book is written on one side from her point of view. The girl is in high school and what her experiences/emotions were while dating this guy. Then you flip the book over to the back cover. That side is written His Story. How he entered the blind rage and couldn’t stop if he wanted to, how he needed therapy.
It was written as if a true story, kind of diary format, from a teenage perspective. It is probably less than 100 pgs and must contain both his side and her side. The earliest it would have been published is 1985s, latest 1994.
Favorite Answer
Stop in the name of love :
Holly /
Nancy N Rue
1988 1st ed.
English Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience 151, 130 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
New York : Rosen Pub. Group, ; ISBN: 0823907945 : 9780823907946
Kyle and Holly take turns telling their own sides of this love story involving dating violence.
Review from http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Name-Love-Holly-Kyle/dp/0823907945/?tag=24680e-20 (and there are used copies for sale there, too):
From School Library Journal
Grade 7-12 This “Flipside Fiction” book deals with date violence from the different perspectives of a high-school couple. (One side offers Holly’s story; flip the book and read Kyle’s.) The course of their dream romance is interrupted by the increasingly severe beatings which Kyle inflicts and Holly endures. Passive Holly believes that it’s all her fault for not meeting her steady’s needs. She is terrorized. For Kyle, the relationship is a trap, too. Son of an autocratic military man, he explodes with rage at familial and societal pressures and expectations. There’s no happy ending; there are glimmers of hope for the young lovers. Holly begins to appreciate her own worth through the help of a Women’s Crisis Center Counselor. Kyle’s future seems less promising; his family refuses to consider professional help, but Kyle is able to respond to an understanding teacher. This titles delivers what the series promises: a non-judgmental approach, two points of view, a basis for problem solving and role-playing in groups, affirmative role models, and suggestions for sources of help. Characterizations are believable, and plotting is sound. Discussion of sexual activity is frank, and description of date violence is graphic, but the treatment of both subjects is appropriate to the story. The novelty format may attract YAs to this valuable book. Libby K. White, Schenectady County Public Library, N.Y.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
