BOOK: Searching for David's heart by Bennett

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Bennett, Cherie._Searching for David's heart_,1998 [0-590-30673-1]
Darcy has a fight with her brother, runs away from him and he
chases after her across the street where he is hit with a car and
killed.  The parents donate his organs.  No one knows why David
ran in the street and that Darcy feels she killed her brother.  She
decides that she needs to know to whom her brother's heart was
donated.  She and her friend search the internet and newspaper
indexes to find someone who received a heart around the same
date as David's death.  What I liked here is that a realistic search
strategy is described with various hits and misses and the term
"key words" is used.  When they locate the recipient, they run
away to go on an adventure to meet him so Darcy can make peace
with David's heart.  When they meet the recipient, it is a very
emotional experience.  That whole family brings Darcy back to her
own family.  This is a very heart wrenching story.  This 220 page
book was a Book Fair bonus from the Fall and I put off reading it
because it looked sappy.  That was a big mistake -- this is a
powerful book.

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