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Augusta, Gone: A True Story
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Augusta, Gone: A True Story
Author: Martha Tod Dudman

Book Information
Publisher: Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780060014155 - ISBN-10: 0060014156
Publication Date: 4/1/2002
Pages: 256


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover

Book Description:

The story of a girl who is doing everything to hurt herself and a mother who would try anything to try to save her.

True, she had stopped coming down for breakfast. Stayed up in her room, ran out the door late for school, missed the bus and had to have a ride. But you think, well, that's how they are, aren't they, teenagers? And you try to remember how you were, but you were different and the times were different and it was so long ago. And she's suddenly so angry at you, but then, another time, she's just the same. She's just your little girl. You sit with her and you talk about something, or you go shopping for school clothes and everything seems all right. And you forget how you stood in her room and how the center of your stomach felt so cold. When you found the cigarette. When you found the blue pipe. When you found the little bag she said was aspirin.


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Laura S. (lovelylaura) wrote on 8/5/2009...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

The book was very interesting. It gave a good first person account of the struggles a loving, concerned mother was having in trying to help her mis-guided teen. I found it a very compelling read and a quick one. It tied up a little too prettily at the end, but overall a very good book.

Franchesca M. (short-angry14) - NM wrote on 6/5/2009...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

I just finished this book, and I can't recall another that made me feel like I had wrote it myself. As the mother of a teenage daughter, it was so easy to relate to and FEEL everything that the author wrote about. My daughter is now 19 years old, and while she has never quite been as hard to manage as the authors daughter, she has certainly put me up against the ropes of life. Augusta, Gone is completely amazing. A must read for any mother of a teenage daughter, troubled or not. This book will make you feel like you are, for once, not alone in your feelings about your children; good or bad. Incredibly relatable, intense, wonderful book!!

Tanya D. (canuckdavis) wrote on 3/28/2006...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

I really felt I could relate to this mother. Very honest and from the heart story.


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Samantha F. (imdubbs13) - MN wrote on 9/23/2009...


This book really made me think about myself as a teen and everything I put my mother through. After reading this I called my mother to apologize for being such a nightmare. It was really different reading something from a mother's point of view. Mostly really sad. I liked this book however it was not one of my favorite's. I think it's a great read though and do recommended it to people who put there mother's through a lot. You don't really think about it until you read another's story.


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