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Title	:	After
Author	:	Amy Efaw
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 350 pages
Published	:	August 11th 2009 by Viking Books for Young Readers
Categories	:	Young Adult. Realistic Fiction. Fiction. Contemporary. Teen

After

Amy Efaw

Hardcover | Pages: 350 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 19419 Users | 1885 Reviews

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An infant left in the trash to die. A teenage mother who never knew she was pregnant . . .

Before That Morning, these were the words most often used to describe straight-A student and star soccer player Devon Davenport: responsible, hardworking, mature. But all that changes when the police find Devon home sick from school as they investigate the case of an abandoned baby. Soon the connection is made. Devon has just given birth; the baby in the trash is hers. After That Morning, there's only one way to define Devon: attempted murderer.

And yet gifted author Amy Efaw does the impossible. She turns Devon into an empathetic character, a girl who was in such deep denial that she refused to believe she was pregnant. Through airtight writing and fast-paced, gripping storytelling, Ms. Efaw takes the reader on Devon's unforgettable journey toward clarity, acceptance, and redemption.

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Original Title:	After
ISBN:	0670011835 (ISBN13: 9780670011834)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Washington (state)(United States)
Literary Awards:	Borders Original Voices Award for Kids & Teens (2009), Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award Nominee (2011), Florida Teens Read Nominee (2010), Lincoln Award Nominee (2012), Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2012)

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Stopped about fifty pages from the end when I just got too bored. Little, if any, character development, irritating pacing, and extremely repetitive storytelling. Two stars because I see the effort the author made, I just think she may need a lesson in subtlety. Devon is a soccer player, we know, and we don't need two soccer metaphors a page to remind us it's important to her. Her issues with her mother would have been much more poignant if they weren't so heavy-handed. This premise made it

In October I was in the worst reading slump ever so I decided to get away from all ARCs and read something that would regain my interest in writing so I started browsing the library ebook selection and came across After. The first thing I noticed was the cover, the reflection shows a baby bump and the other doesnt. I thought well this should be interesting. Then I read the synopsis and I was really interested. A book about a girl who hid her pregnancy and than threw out her baby? That is unlike

After reminded me very much of the episode of Cold Case titled 'Family' - same sort of plot and character types. It was gripping, sad, honest and very well-written.

After the tragic discovery of a newborn infant in the trash, 15 year old Devon recalls what happened. The author skillfully makes the reader understand how an intelligent, athletic young woman could delude herself and try to continue her normal high school life during pregnancy. The novel is a page turner out of the sad headlines of our time.

As a big fan of YA lit, I was intrigued by the premise of this novel and then horribly disappointed in the execution. It read like an episode of Law and Order: SVU- all of the legalese with none of the emotional exploration that I expect in well-written young adult novels. As much as I wanted Devon to be a compelling character, her lack of self-awareness made her extremely hard to like, although she is a character that inspires excessive pity. Clearly, this was a teen in deep need of psychiatric

I have so many problems with this book.1. I always deem it slightly unfair of me to say a book should have been written in a different way, since that's not my job as a reader to decide. HOWEVER. The juvenile detention/courtroom procedures were hardly the most intriguing part of this story to me, and yet that's the majority of what we got. If I wanted that I'd just watch Law & Order: Special Victims Unit which at least has theatre actors in guest-starring roles and bizarro plotlines that

According to the description of this book, the reader is supposed to empathize with Devon and look at her story in a sympathetic light. I'm sorry, but that didn't happen.My major problem with this book is that Devon spent most of it in denial. She can't admit to herself that she's pregnant and throws the baby into a trash can. When people try to help her, she is either unresponsive or uncooperative. She thinks she's better than all the others at juvie because she didn't really do anything wrong