The First Part Last | Angela Johnson | A #1 ITEM ON YOUR CHRISTMAS LIST!!!

The First Part Last | Angela Johnson | Kailahs review

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The First Part Last

	The First Part Last Angela Johnson Simon Pulse, 2004 - 144 pages average customer review:based on 83 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A #1 ITEM ON YOUR CHRISTMAS LIST!!!

This book will connect with you physically, emotionally, and mentally. Once you read one page you can't put it down. This book is about a young high school boy, named Bobby that got his girlfriend Nia pregnant. At first they thought about adoption because they weren't ready to accept the responsibility of raising a child and they're still kids. When Nia had the baby it was a girl and they named her Feather. Once Nia had the baby, Bobby decided not to give Feather away because of some complications with Nia. So Bobby decided to accept the responsibility of being a father and he took care of Feather as a single parent with a little bit of support. The more time Bobby spent with Feather, the more he grew closer to her. He never wanted to let her out of his sight and Feather felt the same way about her father. Bobby did get really stressed and tired from all the responsibility of being a single parent in high school, but he fought through it and succeeded very well.

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Kailahs review

i really liked this book.It tells what teens go through when they are pregnant.This is an outstanding book. Teens who read this will be very amazed.Im a teen and i could really relate to it. Angela Johnson is an outstanding author and i can see why this book won so many awards.I mean, Angela gave bobby such an interresting personality and Nia's too.I also like how she gave feather an interresting personality even though she is an newborn baby. Angela put so much effort into this book and i can tell.Bobby is a teenage father and cannot go throug it and that iswhat makes the book so good.

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Wonderful!

This book is about sixteen year-old Bobby who gets his girlfriend, Nia, pregnant. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I would definitely recommend it to other seventh graders. It was slightly depressing but had a good ending and very acutely showed the male side of teen pregnancy. My favorite parts were when it talked about Feather, Bobby and Nia's daughter, because she was so alive and cute, whereas a lot of things in this story are more depressing. I was also glad that this book showed how teenagers aren't always irresponsible and just because a baby was conceived a little bit younger doesn't mean it will be loved less or that it needs to be ashamed of its parents. Bobby and Nia loved each other very much and Feather should be proud of that. Bobby struggles with being a single parent after Nia falls into a coma, but he accepts responsibility and becomes very close to his daughter. I enjoyed this book because it was a very realistic situation and it was well written. Happy reading!

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Masterful and gentle

In this prequel to Heaven, it answers questions that Marley wondered about Bobby's past. (I saw on the back a picture of another book called Heaven; at the end, Bobby was moving to heaven, Ohio. I wondered if they had anything to do with each other. )
Each "then" and "now" chapter could stand alone as a small story, esp. the first two pages. The First Part Last has a lyrical quality, with spare, laconic sentences.
You can see Bobby's love and gentleness towards Feather, plus painful memories because she looks like her mother Nia.
Recommended to me by Amazon, I borrowed it from my library when I saw it. Seeing the book cover from a small picture on Amazon (I didn't bother to see a bigger picture because I thought I'd never read it.), I thought the person on the cover was a serious female sitting and thinking. I didn't see the baby or that the person holding it was male. (Another lesson about not judging a book by its cover, though I would have read it either way.)
Many teenagers face this dilemma of pregnancy, but I haven't read a book as masterful at portraying this topic as this one. Angela Johnson has become my favorite author.
Sensitive to the feelings of a boy...a non-sexist book...boys can feel love and have emotions.

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A Seventh Grader's Opinion

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I would definitely recommend it to other seventh graders. I t was slightly depressing but had a good ending and very acutely showed the male side of teen pregnancy. My favorite parts were when it talked about Feather, their daughter, because she was so alive and cute, whereas a lot of things in this story are more depressing. I was also glad that this book showed how teenagers aren't always irresponsible and just because a baby was conceived a little bit younger doesn't mean it will be loved less or that it needs to be ashamed of its parents. Bobby and Nia loved each other very much and Feather should be proud of that. I enjoyed this book because it was a very realistic situation and it was well written, poetic novel. Happy reading!

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