Elizabeth Scott
Hardcover | Pages: 307 pages Rating: 3.71 | 9260 Users | 570 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Stealing Heaven |
| ISBN: | 0061122807 (ISBN13: 9780061122804) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.elizabethwrites.com/stealingheaven.php |
| Characters: | Greg Malone, Allison, Danielle |
| Setting: | Heaven, New England(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2011) |
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My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember.Dani has been trained as a thief by the best--her mother. Together, they move from town to town, targeting wealthy homes and making a living by stealing antique silver. They never stay in one place long enough to make real connections, real friends--a real life.
In the beach town of Heaven, though, everything changes. For the first time, Dani starts to feel at home. She's making friends and has even met a guy. But these people can never know the real Dani--because of who she is. When it turns out that her new friend lives in the house they've targeted for their next job and the cute guy is a cop, Dani must question where her loyalties lie: with the life she's always known--or the one she's always wanted.
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| Title | : | Stealing Heaven |
| Author | : | Elizabeth Scott |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 307 pages |
| Published | : | May 27th 2008 by HarperTeen |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Romance. Contemporary. Realistic Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit |
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Ratings: 3.71 From 9260 Users | 570 ReviewsNotice Out Of Books Stealing Heaven
Stealing Heaven is about a young girl that is going through life and just letting things happen. In the begining it is Dani, her mother, and her father. After some difficult obsticles they go through, which they think are normal, Dani is separated from her father for the rest of her life. She grew up knowing all the things she had weren't hers. She didn't know better, afterall that is what she had been taught. Later Dani's father was put in jail for stealing and was left with her mother. She(Source: I own a copy of this book.)18-year-old Danielle is a thief, and travels around with her mother, looking for their next opportunity to steal some silver.Will Danielle and her mother ever stop stealing? Or will they be caught?This was an okay story, but I got bored at points.Danielle was an okay character, but she made some really stupid decisions at times. Given her history I really expected better from her. Having been raised the way she was raised, and have known nothing other than
I really enjoyed this, a quick fast-paced contemporary about a girl who steals with her mother for a living, and what happens when she moves to a town called Heaven, and makes friends and falls for a local young cop. Although the premise sounds cutesy, it's actual pretty heavy in theme & content, would recommend to fans of Sarah Dessen.
4.5 stars FOR SURE! This book was awesome. Completely different premise than anything I'd ever read before. Dani (Danielle) grew up studying the family business.... which is stealing silver from rich people's homes. She never went to high school, because she was learning "more important things". She and her mom essentially live on the road, going from one town to the next, picking a home, devising a plan to steal from it, stealing the silver, and then moving on to a new town.Until they get to
Danielle has always been a thief. She and her mother runs around from town to town stealing silver - something that is not as obvious as diamonds and jewels but can still heft a high price. Dani never connected and made any friends because of all their moving around, however, things change when they move to Heaven where tons of high-end families live and gather.Personally, I thought Stealing Heaven was very unique because I never realized that people especially teenagers will go around just to
I stand in the shower and cry for what Ive never had and never will. A real home. Things I can truly call my own and keep forever. Friends. I am in the place where you cry and mean itDani has never had the chance to settle down in one place, make connections with people or call a place her own. This is because from a young age all has learnt to rob places with her mom and then move to another town. However things change when Dani arrives at Heaven, she finds it strange that people actually want
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