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A Voice of Her Own

Barbara Dana

Dana, Barbara. A Voice of Her Own. HarperCollins Publishers. New York. 2009.

A Voice of Her Own, by the author Barbara Dana, is a fiction book

about making your own decisions. This book has been popular for two

years so far and a lot of people recommend it. Elisabeth’s life is

very sincere and tells the reader that you shouldn’t let someone

control your life after you have turned old enough to do what you

think is right for yourself.

A Voice of Her Own, is about a girl named Elisabeth, whose parents

treated her like a slave. They didn’t care about her and thought that

it wasn’t important for her to do anything except what they wanted her

to do. Elisabeth then decides that it is time for her to take control

of her life.

Elisabeth just turned eighteen and asked her parents if she could move

out of their house. Her parents were very shocked and refused to give

her that kind of freedom. They told her that they didn’t think she was

responsible enough to start her own life, but the truth was her

parents didn’t want to have to get someone else to do all of the work

around the house.

Elisabeth finally confesses to herself that she has been mistreated,

and decides she is going to run away. After she has secretly packed up

all of her things, she and her dog run away. She took a trolley and

went to her old best friend Bethany’s house.

Elisabeth had found a job where she was making enough money to rent an

apartment and go to college. She made some new friends and even though

she sometimes missed her old family, she was very happy that she ran

away.

A Voice of Her Own didn’t turn out as well written as the one would

expect of Barbara Dana. The back of the book tells the reader almost

the complete story. Although it was a good plot, the book itself

wasn’t that good.

2 out 5 stars.

Contributed by A. Unger

May 10th 2011