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Telling Christina Goodbye
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Overview
High school senior Trisha tries to cope with her shattered dreams after her friend Christina is killed in a car accident that leaves Trisha's boyfriend Cody in a coma and Christina's boyfriend Tucker, the driver, unharmed.
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Trisha Thompson and her best friend Christina are having a great senior year. Trisha and her boyfriend, Cody, are making plans to attend Indiana University together in the fall, while Christina has already received a scholarship to the University of Vermont. Everything would be perfect if only Trisha got along with Christina's controlling boyfriend Tucker, who is trying to convince Christina not to go away for college. But suddenly their lives change one night when Tucker is driving the four home from an away basketball game. When his car hits a patch of black ice and overturns, Tucker walks away with barely a scratch, but Trisha is injured, Cody is in a coma, and Christina is dead. Those left behind must learn that it takes time for their scars—both visible and not—to heal. And they must find the courage to move on with their lives.
A compelling inspirational novel about the way everything can change in the blink of an eye.
Lurlene McDaniel has written more than 30 inspirational novels. Her books have received acclaim from teachers, parents, young adults, and reviewers.
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During the first week of classes after Christmas break, between fourth and fifth periods at Mooresville High School, Trisha Thompson went looking for Christina Eckloe. She found her best friend crying in the girls' bathroom. Her sobs were muffled and sounded almost like a kitten mewing, hardly the reflection of a breaking heart, but Trisha wasn't fooled. She'd heard Christina cry before. And it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why. Tucker Hanson.
Trisha slipped into the unlocked stall where Christina was hiding, her hands covering her face. Trisha unrolled a swath of toilet paper and handed it to her friend. "Here, use this. It's more absorbent than your palms."
Christina took the wad of paper without looking up. She wiped her eyes and blew her nose. "H-how did you find me?"
"When you didn't show up for lunch, I started checking the bathrooms. This was my third stop."
"Wh-where are the others? I don't want them to see me like this."
"Kim and Darby went on to class. Cody's waiting outside in the hall."
"Why couldn't I get a guy like Cody?" Christina asked.
"You mean instead of a jerk like Tucker? That's always been my question to you, hasn't it?" Trisha felt angry. "Tucker is the reason you're crying, isn't he? I mean, he usually is the reason you cry."
Christina nodded.
Trisha sighed. "What'd he do this time?"
"We had a fight."
"Over what?"
"You don't have to talk to me like I'm a child," Christina said. She stood shakily and edged past Trisha out of the stall.
Trisha followed. "Sorry. But you've been fighting with Tucker off and on for years. It gets to me because he's not nice to you."
Christina bent over a sink and splashed cold water on her face. "You just don't understand."
"Enlighten me."
"This time it really was my fault," Christina said. "I ran into Bill Lawler at the library last night. Tucker was supposed to pick me up at nine, but we'd had a fight that afternoon and he didn't show."
Trisha rolled her eyes.
"Anyway," Christina continued while drying her face on a paper towel, "Bill offered to drive me home and on the way we stopped off and had coffee. Someone must have seen us together and told Tucker, because when he picked me up for school this morning he was really upset. I tried to explain that there's nothing between me and Bill, but he won't believe me."
"So now he's mad because you had coffee with Bill? What's wrong with that?"
"I'm Tucker's girl. I shouldn't have gone out with another guy."
"Oh, please!" Trisha crossed her arms. "You didn't go out on a date, you had a coffee together. How can he be that insecure? You've been with him since eighth grade."
The entire class knew about Tucker and Christina's relationship. He had been voted Mr. Most Popular and this year's Homecoming King; she had been selected as Miss Best Personality and Homecoming Queen. Kids saw them as perfect for each other, beautiful people who had been going together forever and who were destined to always be a couple. Only Trisha and her boyfriend, Cody McGuire, knew about the tumultuous nature of the pairing. To Trisha's way of thinking, Tucker was often hateful to Christina, sarcastic and even rude. Trisha didn't understand why they stayed together. Christina could have any guy she wanted at Mooresville.
"Are you saying Cody wouldn't object if you were seen in public having coffee with some other guy by people who think you've got an exclusive relationship with him?" Christina sounded defensive.
"Frank Russo and I go out all the time and Cody doesn't feel threatened."
"You're coeditors of the yearbook. Of course you go out all the time. Plus Frank has Abby Harrison for a girlfriend."
Trisha ignored Christina's logic. "The point is, Cody trusts me. After all the years you've been with Tucker, he should trust you too."
Christina looked dejected. "That's what I told him, but he's still angry."
"Then that's his problem, not yours. He needs to get over it, cut you some slack."
"There are other things too." Christina fished in her purse for lip gloss. "I've been accepted at the University of Vermont--"
"But that's wonderful," Trisha interrupted.
Christina smiled for the first time. "Mom and Dad think so too, especially since it came with a ten-thousand-dollar scholarship."
Trisha was speechless. She'd always known Christina was smart, but this really proved it.
"It's Dad's alma mater, so he really wants me to go there," Christina added.
"So why wouldn't you?"
"Tucker hates the idea. He can't accept that I would go so far from Indiana, or him. He's really bummed out about it. He wants me to go someplace in-state, like IU."
Indiana University at Indianapolis was a good hundred and fifty miles from Mooresville, a midsized town in the middle of nowhere. Trisha had moved to Mooresville with her parents and kid brother five years before when her father, an insurance agent, had taken over the job of area manager for his company. To Trisha, after having lived in a sprawling suburb of Chicago all her life, Mooresville had seemed like the most boring place on earth. When Christina had befriended her in seventh grade, that had made all the difference. Then, when they'd both started at the high school, Trisha met Cody, and having him for a boyfriend for two years had turned Mooresville into the center of the universe.
"How can Tucker expect you to change your plans--your future--for him? Why doesn't he change his plans for you?" Trisha asked. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 240
Dimensions: Length: 0.5" Width: 4.5" Height: 7"
Weight: 0.25 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Apr 9, 2002
Publisher Laurel Leaf
Age 12-17
ISBN 0553570870
EAN 9780553570878
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About this Author/Artist <b>Lurlene McDaniel</b> has written more than 30 inspirational novels. Her books have received acclaim from teachers, parents, young adults, and reviewers.
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 | FANTASTIC!! Apr 6, 2007 |
| This book was great! I highly recommend it. It was sad but yet happy at the same time. Lurlene McDaniel is a great author. This is the second book by her that I have read and both are great. This book has made some people cry so if you do not like to cry then you better not read this book. This book did not make me cry though. I won't tell you the ending but you will love this book if you read it. | | | | My review Dec 16, 2006 |
The name of my book is Telling Christina Goodbye by Lurlene McDaniel. This is a fiction book. Trisha Thompson is the main character. Her and her boyfriend Cody plan to go to Indiana University together for college. Christina got a scholarship to University of Vermont. Christina's boyfriend Tucker, is trying to get her to stay back home though. Everything was going just fine until one day, when Tucker was driving home from a basketball game with all four of them in the car, hit a patch of black ice and overturned the car. Tucker was not injured, Trisha was injured, Cody was in a coma, and Christina was dead. Now Trisha needs to cope with her emotions and hope that Cody will get his memory back.
I liked this book very much. I thought it was a sad book but still very interesting. I think this is a good book for teens to read since it takes place in a high school.
| | |  | Telling Christina Goodbye Jul 16, 2006 |
Lurlene McDaniel is my favorite author, and I love her work. I was a little disapointed with "Telling Christina Goodbye" though. I don't think that the idea is original, mainly because I didn't really know the charecters well enough to root for them. I didn't think that this book is as good as most of Lurlene's, although you may feel differently. Even though this book isn't one of my favorites, it is still worth reading.
-thanks | | | | Alley from New York May 17, 2006 |
| Telling Christina Goodbye, by Lurlene Mcdaniel, is a MUST read book. The book is about a girl named Christina, and her best friend Trisa. Both of the girls have boyfriends which are hangout buddies. Well the story goes along were they all get in Tuckers car,Christinas boyfriend,and drive to a basketball game. On their way back they get into a awful accident. You will have to read the rest of the book to find out what went wrong to the four friends, and WHO surived. You won't be able to put it down. | | | | WOW Apr 1, 2006 |
| Telling Christina Goodbye is one of those books that you cry while your reading it. It made me realize just how short life really is. Lurlene has a way of making you ask yourself what kind of life you really want to live. I loved this book and couldn't put it down. Read it it will change your life forever. | | | Write your own review about Telling Christina Goodbye
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