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 enlarge | Author: A. M. Jenkins
Publisher: HarperTeen
Category: Book
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0064472558
EAN: 9780064472555
ASIN: 0064472558
Publication Date: April 1, 2003
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 "Damage"-great YA read October 21, 2005
The book Damage will surely keep and young adult reader on edge! Austin Reid, a senior and star on star football team has everything going for him. Everything in Austin's life is perfect, or so it seems. He is popular, does well in school, is the star on the football team, and his girlfriend Heather, is the hottest girl at school. There is only one problem, Austin is not happy, and nothing at all seems to help. At a young age Austin's father passed away, which could very well be the root of his depression. Day in and day out, in the small Texas town of Parkers Ville, all Austin feels is depression. Eventually he grows farther and farther away from his friends and family, and the only option he sees is suicide. It is as if Reid has everything to live for, yet can't find an interest to live for anything! The unique second person viewpoint Jenkins uses adds some creative flavor to his novel. In the case of this book the second person view did not work so well. The feelings and emotions of other characters were not able to be seen. The whole mood throughout the book is one that is well, depressed. Many young adults can relate with a book like Damage, that is what makes it a great read! This novel is very real and is perfect for teens and young adults!
Tough Men Play Hard September 28, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was on of the best books that I have read. I will have to say that there are some other books that I would rather read that this one. The main characters in the book Damage is Austin Reid, his girl friend which her name is Heather, and as you know since it is about football the teammates are also main characters. Austin is a normal type of guy. I think that he is a normal type of guy because he never gives himself much time to get ready before school is always a little behind. While all of this is happening he also has a younger sister. He does not like his younger sister because she is always complaining about what she has to wear to school. She tries to get by her mother with what she is wearing to school everyday. She is trying to be like the preppy kind of kids in the school. What Austin really don't like about what happens in the morning before school is that he always has to be hearing his mother yelling at his sister. Later on in the story when he really finds out what has happen to his dad is that when Austin was young his dad died with cancer and he really didn't know him, and he also don't remember anything. Once Austin was back into the game he had to go to football practice every day after school. One day the hottest girl in the school was waiting by the bleachers and he asked her if she needed a ride home, and she said yes. He has always like Heather but he has never had enough nerve to go up to her and ask her out. On the way home he was kind of nervous because she has nice things lots of money and here he sits with an old beat up pick up truck his dad had when he was a little boy. When he got to her house he got out ran around the truck and he opened her door. That is when he asked her if she would go out with him. Well she said yes and he asked her if she was going to be doing something after the game. From now on they would go out after every game. You need to read the book to find the rest.
Some of my likes of the book is that it is about football. Football is one of my favorite sports. Some of my other likes of the book is that his younger sister shows animals at the fair and I also show animals at the fair. Some of my dislikes of the book is really nothing because I really liked the book.
Some of the people that I think would like to read this book is people that love sports. This book also has some romantic scenes in it so if you like romantic books I think that the people that would like this book are mainly for sport fans.
 AUSTIN May 3, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"When you open your eyes, the joyless feeling has already crawled onto your chest. The ceiling of your room presses down onto the mattress. The air settles in your lungs so heavy that it almost too much trouble to breathe". This to me is the best introduction to start a book, even if it is not a very good thing, it just has a lot of details and it is so clear that you can imagine that that was happing to you. Austin seems like he is a pretty cool kid, he has some troubles in his life but every adolescent does when they get to the age of 15-20. He has some cool friends they try to help change his life but it is just does not work this book will go through some of the troubling things that teens go through and some of the good things they go through.
He is getting ready for football this summer because he made the commit that "two-a-days start Monday," For some reason it makes him a little happy. Austin is a ladies man and just broke up with his girl and him and Curtis goes to a little malt shop and Austin sees his old girl friend there and he still thinks she looks good. From the sound of things she sounds like she has been around the block once or twice. Dobie is her name and the way Curtis talks about her she is a shank.
Not every thing was bad, some things are good, Austin does the bad thing under a tree inside of a car and you know that that made hem feel a little better. Now he is spending more time playing football then worrying about all of the other things. I thought that he was finally moving on until one day he called his girl. This is a passage that came right from the book, "Did you ever have this feeling like you're not sad or anything, but like something's squeezing the back of your eyes"? To me that could sound like he is going to kill his self or he might even think about hurting some one else, I know but I think that I will let you find out by reading the book.
Now there is more complications with Austin, have you ever had a really bad day and you think that every body is against you and you thought that no body loved you or you thought that there was just no reason for you to live again then you thought or you are thinking like he is thinking. This book is just like somebody followed Austin around recording every thing he says and does, word for word, movement for movement, it is so detailed that this is now my new favorite book.
This book is a sad but true book. What I mean when I say sad but true book is that this book does have a good but through the whole book it was leading up to something but something or someone does something and it changes his whole life. This book has the best plot and it has the best characters in it, to me it is the best book and if you have not read it yet you should because it is the simplest book to read but it is the most detailed and the truest book.
Sports, Seduction and Depression May 2, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Austin Reid is the star football player at his school; he is the pride of the Parkersville Panthers. Austin is very well liked, good with the ladies and probably the most popular boy in school. But lately Austin just feels like giving up. Austin doesn't even want to get out of bed, not because he's tired but because he doesn't feel like he has anything to get up for.
"What you really want to do is give up trying. Lay your head down on the floor and quit squeezing, quit breathing quit trying. The problem is you cant just quit, that is. When people want to quit, they have to choose. Make a decision. Take action."
When Austin meets Heather, also the prettiest, most popular girl in school, they fall for each other. But everything isn't okay yet. Heather has a very contradicting personality; Heather loves to be in control and doesn't like Austin's friends.
Heather and Austin have something in common, both of their fathers died when they were younger. Austin's dad died of lung cancer. But no one knows what or how heathers dad died.
All of these pressures just keep building up in Austin, finally forcing him to make a choice, to use his dad's razor for something other than shaving.
This is a very good book for high schoolers. Because of the sexual content I would not recommend this book to younger kids. A.M. Jenkins,the author puts you in Austin's shoes. You feel yourself thinking that Austin's thinking, feeling how Austin's feeling. The author shows how depression can start small and build up until you feel you have to do something about it.
This book is not flawless though. I was disappointed with the ending but it does not take away from the overall effect of the book. The plot is very complex and very seductive which makes you want to read more and more.
Very good book March 30, 2005
Damage
By: A. M. Jenkins
What you really want to do is give up trying. Lay your head down on the floor and quit squeezing, quit breathing, quit trying. The problem is, you can't. Just quit, that is. When people want to quit, they have to choose. Make a decision. Take action.
That's what Austin Reid has to do. And he has to do it every day of his life. This book puts you in the shoes of Austin Reid, and tells it from his/your perspective.
Everyday life may throw a curveball at you, whether you're looking or not. But you know you have to fight through it. You know you have to make it to another day. And that is what Austin has done.
For a young adult to have a chance to play football in college would be a great chance. But what if you lost the love for the game. Austin has throughout the summer between his junior and senior year. He no longer had fun playing the sport that he once loved, or is any good at. Each day was a struggle to get up for him. Until Heather Mackenzie comes into his life.
Heather is perfect in every way. Smart, talented, and everyone guy in school dreamed of going out with her. Even Austin. But everyone knew that she only liked guys older than her. So when she came and asked Austin to give her a ride home, he was shocked. But on the way home he fell head over heals for her, and after that day they were a couple.
But what if all the pieces weren't there? Everyone knew how Austin's father had died. Cancer. But what about Heather's father? Know one knew a thing about him. Until Austin found out. And asked Heather. That's when things went haywire between them.
But I better stop going on and on or I will give this story away. I enjoyed reading it but I did not like how it ended. But they say the better the book is, the louder you want to scream MORE, MORE after your done reading. And trust me, I've done my share of screaming after this book.
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