Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 158 pages
- Published by: Workman Publishing Company May 1, 1990
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0894806564
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0894806568
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Book Dimensions:
7.2 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
- Weighs: 6.4 ounces
From School Library Journal
A fast-paced, celebrity-sprinkled, easy-to-absorb, chatty introduction to AIDS for those contemplating risky behavior. Blake emphasizes compassion for sufferers, and includes touching stories of persons with AIDS (PWAs), most of whom are attractive young people who wish they had listened to the warnings. Celebrities such as Whitney Houston endorse safe sex practices or urge sympathy for PWAs. Profiled also are young people without the virus who have helped to raise money or support AIDS-related projects. There are some practical techniques (how to talk about condoms with partners, how parents can talk to teens about AIDS). There is little scientific analysis, but a few newer medical findings are revealed. This is similar to You Can Do Something About AIDS (Stop AIDS Project, 1988). A better title is Karen Hein's AIDS: Trading Fears for Facts (Consumers Union, 1989); both the Blake and Hein titles are devoid of detailed information on the reproductive system but each has touching case histories of AIDS sufferers who contracted the virus in a variety of ways. Another good title is Elaine Landau's We Have AIDS (Watts, 1990); but of all of these, none surpass in style, thoroughness, and readability Lynda Madaras Talks to Teens About AIDS (Newmarket, 1988). --Anne Osborn, Youth Training School, Dept. of Youth Authority, Ontario, CA
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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