{"id":451,"date":"2009-05-11T23:11:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T03:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/11\/review-of-stealing-heaven-by-elizabeth-scott\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T22:00:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T02:00:43","slug":"review-of-stealing-heaven-by-elizabeth-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Review of Stealing Heaven, by Elizabeth Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stealing Heaven<\/em><\/p>\n

by Elizabeth Scott<\/p>\n

HarperTeen, 2008.\u00a0 307 pages.<\/p>\n

Starred review
\nSonderbooks Stand-out 2010<\/a>: #3 Other Teen Fiction<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.elizabethwrites.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.harperteen.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Danielle is eighteen years old.\u00a0 She’s been stealing things as long as she can remember.\u00a0 Her Mom is good at what she does, and she’s trained Dani how to get the job done.<\/p>\n

Dani’s never stayed in one place for long, and she’s never gone to school.\u00a0 Her mom says, “Some kids go to school and leave not knowing how to write their own name.\u00a0 You can do that and you can tell plate from sterling just by looking at it.\u00a0 That’s education.”<\/p>\n

When they decide to work in a beach town called Heaven, things begin to go wrong.\u00a0 Dani meets a nice girl at the beach, who turns out to be the daughter of the owners of the richest place in town — the one her Mom plans to steal from.\u00a0 Then a cute guy keeps running into her and seems interested in her — and he turns out to be a cop.<\/p>\n

Having a friend or a boyfriend has always been out of the question for Dani.\u00a0 But now she’s getting pulled in.\u00a0 What will her mother say if she finds out?\u00a0 What will Dani’s new friends say if they find out that she’s a thief?<\/p>\n

This book pulls you into Dani’s dilemma as a young adult torn between what she’s always known, what she’s good at, and the call of a life that’s different, a life with relationships that last.<\/p>\n

This is another book I couldn’t stop reading until I’d finished it in the early hours of the morning.\u00a0 The story is gripping, and you do find yourself caring about Dani, but understanding her struggle.\u00a0 Elizabeth Scott makes the characters distinctive and interesting, but completely believable.\u00a0 I don’t think I’ve never met a professional silver thief, but now I feel like I know what that would be like.\u00a0 I’m going to have to read more of her books.<\/p>\n

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Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott HarperTeen, 2008.\u00a0 307 pages. Starred review Sonderbooks Stand-out 2010: #3 Other Teen Fiction http:\/\/www.elizabethwrites.com\/ http:\/\/www.harperteen.com\/ Danielle is eighteen years old.\u00a0 She’s been stealing things as long as she can remember.\u00a0 Her Mom is good at what she does, and she’s trained Dani how to get the job done. Dani’s never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,31,42,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary","category-stand-outs","category-starred-review","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}