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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Searching For David’s Heart

Bennett, Cherie. Searching For David’s Heart. NY: Scholastic, 1998. 220 pages. (Fiction)

The main characters in this book are David, Sam, and Darcy. David is Darcy’s brother and also one of her closest friends, and Sam is Darcy’s best friend. Sam likes to call himself “The Great Samdini” because he believes that he is as great as his idol magician, Houdini. This story takes place in many places, but the main place would probably be Darcy’s house. The problem that Darcy and Sam face is that David gets a new girlfriend, and forgets about Darcy (at least that’s how it seems to her.). Then on the night of Darcy’s birthday, Darcy and David get into a huge fight. Darcy is in such anger that she sprints into the street, and David is chasing after her. When all of a sudden, David dies a tragic death. He died by having a car hit him while running across the street to chase after Darcy. But amazingly, his heart is perfectly fine. So the family decides to donate his heart to another family. Darcy wants to solve it by tracking down the family that has his heart, just so she knows that somewhere, he is still alive. Some other interesting things that happened in this novel were that, while looking for David’s heart, Darcy and Sam find themselves in crazy situations, like sleeping on a trailer with a mule named Daisy, and sleeping on truck that is delivering furniture to Florida.

I would completely and totally recommend this book to a reader. I loved it and it grabbed me and wouldn’t let me go. I couldn’t stop reading it. The action in there and the miracles that are being written about were just beautiful. I almost cried and I never cry when it comes to books. I would give this book 10 out of 10.
Reviewed by: Garfield3