A Time for Dancing (A Time for Dancing #1)

Reader reviewed by F.W

this is the greatest book i have ever read in my life. At the end of the book i was bawling hysterically. this book teaches you to appreciate life and how hard it is for people to have dideases like cancer. how everything in your life falls apart when you are sick like that. really read this book and read it carefully.

Reader reviewed by Amelie

I think this was an amazing book. it really gives everyone a chance to see what its like to have a terminal illness, a disease like cancer. I always thought that cancer probably wasnt as bad as it sounded and that the people with it were only weak before they died. boy, was I wrong. This book made me appreciate how brave people with such diseases are. I know that if I ever get it, I probably wont take it so well. It also shows what the family goes through, and more so her best friend Sam. I cried when I read this book.

Reader reviewed by Jamie

Wow I just got done with this book and I was crying it's one of the best book I've read. San's best friend Julie has cancer which is only getting worst. Julie and sam are dancers but then Julie can't dance anymore and she also is starting to pull away from Sam since she can't go to school she stays home most of the day. This is a really good book and I think everyone should read it!

Reader reviewed by muffin

Sam and Jules are dancers and have been best friends for over half thier lives. One day at their dance companies rehersal, Jules starts to get crippling pain in her hip and back. After seeing 13 different doctors who can't figure out what is wrong with her, she is refered to a specialist who diagnoses Jules with cancer. Jules life is turned upside down. Sam is lost without her "one and only".

This book is amazing, so well written, you can totally feel this girls pain and anguish. This really make you think about life and how every moment counts.

Reader reviewed by Shamyra

This book is absolutely amazing. I cried my eyes out when reading it. It is about a young girl who get cancer at the age of 16. Its really touching. The best part about it is the way Davida Herwin captured it. It's told in two different first perspectives, by the girl with cancer and her best friend. It shows that a disease like this effect everyone. If your don't tear up while reading this you are not human.

Reader reviewed by Ryss

The book A Time For Dancing, was truly one of the best books I have ever read. Its very likely to happen 2 anybody. It touched my heart and made me cry....its such a sad book. But it should show you a little bit of reality! After you read the book A Time For Dancing, Try reading the Book The Farther You Run by Davida Wills Hurwin..Its the sequel of A Time For Dancing. Its very good too!!

Reader reviewed by Leslie J. de la Rosa

Friends forever, friends for life, friends for all eternity not even death can separate us. In the case of Julie and Sam this might be true. Julie and Sam have been best friends since practically forever, they share a love for dancing in fact that's how they met at a dancing studio. Both girls are glued together, you cant see Julie without Sam being close behind or vise versa, but when during their junior year Julie gets diagnosed with cancer their plans for their future together is shattered in a dream of pain and loss. Slowly but surely everything starts to fall apart in Jules and Sam's life. Can their friendship last? Will the pain of enduring cancer be too much? I absolutely loved this book it showed me what true friendship was all about, since the book is narrated from both girls point of view, I got to experience to different worlds in one. This book is amazing, I recommend it to anyone, although I might warn you you’re in for real water works, I cried for like 30 minutes at the end its like you can feel the characters pain. Davida Wills Hurwin did a wonderful job with this book; it will touch your heart and take you through “A Time for Dancing”.

Reader reviewed by Callie

Sam and Jules have been best friends since they were nine, brought together by dancing. Now they are sixteen and still dancing, but with the troubles of school, guys and family with them. Jules hasn't been feeling good for some time and when she is diagnosed with cancer, her whole world is turned upside down. Jules goes to place where Sam can't follow her, and the two gradually start to pull apart. After having chemo, Jules is feeling strong enough to dance again and Sam and Jules get back their freindship. Then Jules learns that the cancer hasn't gone away, and she knows that she will die. Sam and Jules spend precious last minutes together, efore Sam is to go away on tour with the dance company. Just as they are about to board the plane, Sam gets the news that Jules has gone into a coma and will not wake up. Sam gets to the hospital in time to say goodbye to her one and only, before Jules dies. I loved this book so much, because it was really touching and really explored all the emotions people can feel. There was an especially big emotional climax when Sam finally lets Jules go, and i cried it was so powerful.

Reader reviewed by Maxib5

Im only 14 but i read this book and i cried almost the whole way through! It is an amazing novel that should only be read if you have a box of tissues nearby because this wonderful story will have you intouch with the characters and makes you feel like your actually in the book and losing a friend yourself!Enjoy and make sure you have the time to read the whole story from cover to cover beause you wont want to put it down!

Reader reviewed by Ali

My mom was at the library and thought I would like this book because i am a dancer. I started reading it because i had nothing else to read and thought i would give it a try. It turned out being the best and most heartwarming book I have ever read and probably ever will read. This book made me cry, but think differently about many aspects of life.