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    November Blues
    November Blues
    November Blues
    Audiobook8 hours

    November Blues

    Written by Sharon M. Draper

    Narrated by JD Jackson

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    Sequel to Coretta Scott King Award winner The Battle of Jericho, November Blues is a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. November Nelson lost her boyfriend Josh when a high school hazing incident went horribly wrong. She thinks life can't get worse-then she learns she is carrying Josh's child. She seeks comfort from Josh's cousin and best friend Jericho, who himself is trying to hide the pain of his friend's death by diving into his sports and music. Listeners will get to hear November's story as well as Jericho's as they come to terms with Josh's death.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 19, 2008
    ISBN9781436145619
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    Sharon M. Draper

    Sharon M. Draper is a three-time New York Times bestselling author for Out of My Mind, Blended, and Out of My Heart. She’s also won Coretta Scott King Awards for Copper Sun and Forged by Fire and multiple honors. She’s also the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring her significant and lasting contribution to writing for teens. Sharon taught high school English for twenty-five years and was named National Teacher of the Year. She now lives in Florida. Visit her at SharonDraper.com.

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    • 3/5
      November Blues is the story of a brave high school aged girl who must make a colossal decision that all too many high school girls today are faced with. November gains the support of her friends and manages to show where courage and support can get you in life.
    • 5/5
      Have you known someone who gets pregnant at a young age?Well read this. In this book called November Blues by: Sharon M. Draper a young girl named November Nelson gets pregnant, her boyfriend died, and she wouldn’t be able to finish school. I really liked this book because it reflects on all of our young teenage girls and how they make mistakes getting pregnant, how love ones die, and how you can’t finish school. I would recommend this book to highschoolers or mature people because it deals with sex, cursing, and thing with pregnancy. Sharon M. Draper writes some good books. Her books includes all about teens and their life and situations. She knows all about these situations because she has been a high school teacher so she can relate to all the situations, and she also is a Coretta Scott King award
    • 5/5
      The novel, Novenber Blues, encompasses a teenage girl named November Nelson who struggles with her boyfriend, Josh,dying and finding out she is pregnant. In the beginning, Novenber, the protagonist struggles with how her mother responds with her news. Through out the middle, she experiences pregnacy pains along with legal issues from Josh's parents, wanting to claim the baby. Josh's cousin Jericho steps up to comit to November's needs in hope to fill in the gap that November has because Josh is dead. By the end November has the baby in the most crazy dramatic way, her relationship with her mother becomes stronger, and her legal problems weren't an issue anymore ( 320 pgs/ 320 pgs read)
    • 4/5
      About a girl named November whose boyfriend dies(Josh). He jumps off a 3story building to get into a club. He dies! The next day November finds out she is pregnant with Josh's baby. This book is about a girl who finds out how hard it is to be a single mother.
    • 2/5
      I recently heard Sharon Draper speak and was quite taken by her. Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy this title as much as others by her. The story kept me reading but not enough went on to keep me enthralled.
    • 5/5
      I really liked this book. This book touched me deeply, because i have been in a situation where i have lost someone that i loved. In this book November's boyfriend died in a horrible fraternity joke. November is feeling vey sick and she thinks its because of josh's death but its really because she's pregnant. KNow that josh's dead his parents are letting theirselves go, but when they find out that Novembr is caring the only living peice of their dead son they want the baby. November wants to give up the baby at first, but then she starts to get help from josh's cousin and finally realize's that the baby is not only josh's it's her baby to. She decides to keep the baby.
    • 5/5
      November Blues is about a teenage girl that is pregnant but her boyfreind is dead. She has to go through is with her mother and her freinds. They try to help her out but in the end it is up to her to make the big dicision to either keep the baby or put her up for adoption, to her boyfriends parents. I liked this book because it shows that getting preganant can happen to anybody. The meesage is to not have the baby at all.
    • 3/5
      Sequel to Battle of Jericho - 16-year-old November Nelson learns she is 3 months pregnant on first doctor visit. She’s carrying the child of Josh, who died 3 months before in a high school club hazing. November is an excellent student who had been on her way to Cornell. Her 8th-grade art teacher widowed mother deeply disappointed by the news.Friends Dana and Olivia circle around to support November. Friend Jericho (Josh’s cousin and best friend) promises to be there for her. Josh’s parents and their lawyer present November with adoption papers and a full 4-year college scholarship.With the backdrop of other kids’ senior year activities, November deals with her changing body, her broken dreams, and after baby Sunshine is born prematurely, hopes for her child and herself as a mother.
    • 5/5
      November has only had one boyfriend all her life so when he dies during a prank at school, she can never forgive herself. then she finds out that she is pregnant. it can be no one's else's baby because she had nly slept with Josh. she has a hard time going through with it both at school and at home. when Josh's parents ind out about their grandson they try to take him away and pay November for it but she refuses