One Night | 
 enlarge | Author: Margaret Wild
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 217069
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0553494341
EAN: 9780553494341
ASIN: 0553494341
Publication Date: August 8, 2006
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Gabe is the best looking guy in school—that’s why his friends send him to get girls to their party. Helen is not much to look at—that’s why her friends want her to come along. But Helen gets under Gabe’s skin in a way no other girl has.
It was one night. One night with lasting consequences. Now Helen has to decide if she wants to keep the baby—and if she should tell Gabe, who hasn’t spoken to her since their one night together.
Filled with love, fear, and the tough choices born of casual acts, One Night is a passionate and compellingly readable novel about teen life, the hardships of parenthood—and the joy and forgiveness between family and friends.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 One Night September 28, 2006
Gabe is bored with the typical girls he's always with and wants something more. When he meets Helen he finally finds a girl who doesn't just see his pretty looks and wants to know the real him. But after one night together he ignores her and refuses to answer her phone calls.
Helen is pregnant. Her parents kicked her out and Gabe wont answer the phone. She doesn't know what to do, but she will do anything to keep her baby.
One Night is a great story. It's written in poems and it's a pretty quick read. I recommend it to anyone.
 Amazing July 28, 2005
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This was an amazing book. It was so original, I've never read anything like it. I especially liked how the story was in poem form.
Beautiful June 6, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Gabe is a brash teenage guy who steadfastly ignores the pain of his past and seemingly lives only to toy with girls at parties. Helen is a serious, smart girl who wants to be a plastic surgeon and is uncomfortably aware of her previously deformed face. By chance, the two meet at a party that Helen reluctantly went to with a friend. Somehow, Helen and Gabe connect emotionally in an almost magical way and she is pregnant before the night is over. Helen is forced to deal with a life that changes each day in frightening and awe-inspiring ways.
Yes, this book is written in free verse. But as someone who usually shuns poetry, I can say that this style resulted in some of the most mind-blowingly moving images I have ever encountered in a novel. "One Night" is a quick read, composed of many one-or two paged poems that are each meant to chronicle a particular event or feeling in the lives of Helen, Gabe, and those connected to the two main characters. The poems vary in length, yet Wild writes them in such a way as to make every single word count. With surprisingly few words, she captures Gabe's desolation, Helen's powerful spirit, the upheaval the pregnancy causes, and the pain of labor. Wild is able to write in a way that will keep teens reading, but also to express controversial issues and wrenching emotions in ways that would make great authors proud. This is one of those books that you "travel" through with a racing heart, wanting to absorb every word of each poem, yet rushing ahead to find the next stunning line from this author's pen. With its simplicity yet depth and its hopeful ending, "One Night" is a book that will leave an impression.
One Night October 13, 2004
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Helens life is forever changed the night she meets beautifull and charming Gabe. Although her face is disfigured, Gabe falls for her, the way he has fallen for so many before. This novel in verse lets you look into the life of Gabe and Helen, and leads you though her pregnany, and then finally to the birth of her son, Raphael. Each and every poem is beautifully phrased, and is remarkaley touching. An excellent follow up to JINX, although in my opinion not quiet as good.
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