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Original Title:	Waves
ISBN:	0439871808 (ISBN13: 9780439871808)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Manchester Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2008), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2008)

Waves

Sharon Dogar

Hardcover | Pages: 344 pages

Rating: 3.57 | 1250 Users | 159 Reviews

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A major YA debut by a stunning new talent, acquired in a hot auction; a LOVELY BONES for teens.

When Hal's family makes the heart-wrenching decision to leave Charley, their comatose daughter, behind in a hospital ward while they spend the summer on the west coast of England, Hal finds it harder than ever to shake his sister's presence. What power is letting him share her memories? And will they reveal the deep, dark truth behind her tragic "accident"? Set at a beach where growing up goes wrong, WAVES is a coming-of-age story about first love and first loss; about a family drowning in sorrow, and the remarkable son who is struggling against the tide to save them.

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Title	:	Waves
Author	:	Sharon Dogar
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 344 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2007 by Chicken House (first published March 6th 2007)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Romance. Realistic Fiction. Mystery

Rating Of Books Waves

Ratings: 3.57 From 1250 Users | 159 Reviews

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Waves by Sharon Dogar was a book that many expected it to be about surfing. When I saw the book "Waves" just sitting their on the cart in my english class. I thought it was a good book I thought it talked about water and how they would surf. When I read the book I saw how it talked about a family and one of the children was in coma and the family had to leave and they left the child their and how the other sibling was feeling that emptiness. I recommend this book to every teenager around the

Waves is the story of the Ditton family. At the very beginning we are introduced to the fact that their family has suffered a tragedy. Charley, the 15year old golden girl of the family, is in a coma. The family diligently visits her. The mother does so with hope dressing Charley and talking to her. The father does so out of obligation he wants her to live, but he knows that she will never again be the daughter she was. He questions if they should take Charley off of life support. The older

Yikes this was not what I expected ~ painful & slow. I wondered what really happened to Charley but Hal was so unlikeable, I had a hard time with his 50% of this novel. The blurb stated "Lovely Bones" for teens. .................No I wouldn't say that! I was curious so hung in there but I need to read the real The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Fantastic holiday read ! 5/5

I enjoyed the book, easy reading, no idea when I bought it from a charity shop that it was probably an adolescent book. Great ending.

Review by J.T.: "I liked it but it was too slow at the beginning. I would recommend it to both girls and boys that are young adults."

When this book starts Charley is in a coma, and her family is trying to cope without her. Her brother Hal believes that he hears her voice in his head as though she is trying to talk to him from within her coma. Told in alternating points of view from Charley and Hal, we slowly begin to understand the events that lead up to the accident that put Charley in the coma and the mystery of what she was doing out in the middle of the night. While I did really enjoy this book, I had trouble with the