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Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope
Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope
Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope
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Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope

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Ana's life is a collection of bits and pieces of her past. Infected with HIV at birth, she's unaware of many details of her early childhood and barely remembers her mother. Living with her strict grandmother, she learns how to keep secrets – secrets about her infection and about the abuse she endures at home. But after Ana falls in love and becomes pregnant at seventeen, she begins a journey of hope – a journey of protecting herself and others. She is living with HIV, not dying from it.

Jenna Bush tells of Ana's struggle to break free from the cycle of abuse, silence, and illness with passion and eloquence. But this is not just Ana's story. It is also the story of many children around the world who are marginalized, neglected, and mistreated.

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Release dateOct 13, 2009
ISBN9780061756160

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Jenna Bush Hager met Ana during her travels in Latin America for UNICEF. Ana was born HIV positive and the book is a first-hand account of her childhood where she was orphaned, abused, and struggled to survive. It's a story of hope in the face of every obstacle. It's a quick read.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Ana's life is a collection of bits and pieces of her past. Infected at birth with HIV, she had lost her mother, her father and youngest sister to AIDS. Ana is unaware of many details from her early childhood, with only blurry memories of her parents and baby sister. Ana and her younger sister Isabel are sent to live with their grandparents, where ten-year-old Ana is informed by her grandmother that she has HIV. She is told to keep her illness a secret from others - just one of the many secrets young Ana is forced to keep to herself - from sexual and physical abuse perpetrated by her grandparents, to broader neglect and mistreatment from her other family members.Shuffled from home to home, Ana rarely finds safety or acceptance. Until she meets and falls in love with Berto, becomes pregnant, and then a mother at age seventeen. She begins her journey of hope - a journey of protection of herself, her baby, and others. Struggling to break free from the cycle of abuse, silence, and illness with passion and eloquence - proving to the world that Ana is living with, not dying from HIV/AIDS.I enjoyed this book. I think that it could be very instructive for children who are affected by HIV and/or AIDS. I give this book an A!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Lots of great resources in back for group discussion and how to help yourself or others.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I felt this book was poorly done. It was as if I was reading a small childs picture book. I appreciate Jenna Bush for her work and felt for Ana but the whole point is, did I feel moved enough to want to make a difference ,as with all books of this nature should? The answer sad to say is ..no. I was rather glad to be done with it. I felt cheated. I truly feel that if authors take on bringing a message to the world they should do so with effort. This book lacked that. Her work in UNICEF may be commendable but her writing stirred nothing within me.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I understand the point of narrative nonfiction is to avoid embellishment at all costs, but in this case I think the obvious concern for utmost accuracy robbed the story of much of its emotion. Here we have a true story about a teenage mother who was born HIV-positive, and I came away from it feeling about as moved as from your average low-budget after school special. Details about people's personalities were almost completely absent, to the point where I never felt like I knew where Ana or anyone else was coming from or why they did the things they did. As sad as it sounds, this story probably would have been more touching had it been a completely fictionalized version of real events. However, this book isn't a complete waste of time. I do appreciate the resources and discussion topics at the back of the book. It would probably be a reasonable reading assignment for someone completely naive about HIV. Unfortunately, to those of us pay even the vaguest attention to the news, this dispassionate story is easily forgotten.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is a story of a young mother named Ana who is infected with the HIV virus. She struggles with this disease more or less on her own as her parents had passed away. Ana not only faces the dilemma of being an orphan and living with the disease, but faces abuse at the hands of various family members as she moves from one house to the other. However, through her ordeal she learns to be strong and face her situation and learns of hope. Jenna Bush wrote her narrative after meeting this young lady while working with UNICEF. Although the book was not the best written narrative, the content is very significant. Through Ana’s story Bush illustrates the struggle of those young people who struggle with the disease, and the consequences of abuse
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Though the writing isn't amazing, I found myself enjoying this book. It's a very easy read and it's full of information. I love that after the ending of the book there were many pages filled with information about HIV. I think that teens should read this book to become more informed.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Ana's Story is a the tale of a teenage mother living with HIV somewhere in Latin America. She was born with the disease, having been infected by her mother, who in turn was infected by a rapist. Ana's life is a sad tale of secrecy, abuse, abandonment and fear. But it's also contains moments of strength, hope and love. The text itself is rather simplistic. I don't know if it's intentionally simplified to reach a less literate audience, or if that's the standard of young adult books these days. Either way,I think it took away some of the power of Ana's story. But then again, it's not a story to entertain, but rather to inform folks about some of the struggles endured by people suffering from HIV and AIDS. In that respect, Ms. Bush accomplished her task quite well.--J.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A very quick, simple read. Feels more geared toward a young adult audience. But in all its simplicity it serves its purpose to get a point and information across. I finished it in a few hours. You do feel a connection with the character, and you can feel the author's connection with the real Ana.

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