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Four friends,
Two couples,
One year that will change their lives.

Liz and Sean, both beautiful and popular, are madly in love and completely misunderstood by their parents. Their best friends, Maggie and Dennis, are shy and awkward, but willing to take the first tentative steps toward a romance of their own. Yet before either couple can enjoy true happiness, life conspires against them, threatening to destroy their friendships completely.

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176 pages
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English
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March 29 2005
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13 - 17 years
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10.64 x 1.12 x 17.15 cm
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9780060757366
ISBN-13

978-0060757366
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630L
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Paul Zindel (1936-2003) was born and raised on Staten Island in New York. After teaching high school science for several years, he decided to pursue a career as a playwright. His first play, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Shortly thereafter, he wrote his first novel for young adults, The Pigman, which has gone on to sell millions of copies. Mr. Zindel wrote more than fifty books over the course of his life, including the popular My Darling, My Hamburger; The Pigman’s Legacy, a sequel to The Pigman; and the autobiographical The Pigman and Me.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0060757361
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperTeen; Reprint edition (March 29 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780060757366
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060757366
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 111 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.64 x 1.12 x 17.15 cm

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- #256 in Young Adult Fiction on Dating & Sex
- #385 in Fiction About Friendship for Young Adults
- #1,274 in Books on Social & Family Issues for Young Adults

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naudia greer

The Truth

Reviewed in Canada on October 19, 2003

In My Darling, My Hamburger, they talk about many topics amoung teens today. In the book a senior named Liz faces problems like: I love my boy friend, but do I love him enough to have sex with him; and If I do get pregnant what will I do? Will I have the baby or get an abortion? Paul Zindel did a great job writting this book. It expresses many problems that teens face today like dating, sex, teenage pregnancy, and many others. This book was one of the best books I have read ever.

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Betsy Bird

Can I have some fries with that shake?

Reviewed in Canada on July 8, 2004

Some early young adult novels (it's a fairly new form of literature, you know) age gracefully and seamlessly. I'm thinking of course of Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate War" and (to a lesser extent), S.E. Hinton's, "The Outsiders". Unfortunately, I have a nasty suspicion that these books are the exception rather than the rule. For every "Forever" there's a "My Darling, My Hamburger" that contains a great story bogged down by changes in the world. While Paul Zindel's classic tale of four teenagers and their relationship problems is at times both moving and perfectly toned, mostly the problems presented in it are as dated as they come. Even a plot synopsis makes this apparent.

Friends Maggie and Liz aren't exactly close, but they hang out frequently together. Liz is the more beautiful and popular of the two with Maggie often following behind. When Liz and her boyfriend Sean decide to hook up Maggie with his friend Dennis, the blind date is as incredibly awkward as they come. Throughout the book the narrative switches between Maggie and her tentative relationship with Dennis and Liz's problems with Sean. Sean, like any normal teenager, is as horny as they come and is continually pressuring Liz to have sex. She'd like to, but she worries that it might end up in pregnancy. Unsurprisingly, that is exactly what happens and soon the big question in the book is whether or not Sean will do the honorable thing and marry Liz (!!) or if Liz will seek out an illegal abortion on her own.

It's this last plotline that struck me as dated. The book was originally written in 1969, a full three years before Roe V. Wade and in many ways this abortion issue (while it still looms large) isn't the same. Sure, many girls will sweat over what to do with an unplanned pregnancy, but crossing the border to a state where abortion is legal is probably a more up-to-date literary solution than getting a back alley job. Then there's the debate about whether a girl should marry the guy who gets her pregnant, regardless of how old they are or what their future plans are. Maybe there are pockets of the country where this really is the only honorable solution to such a problem, but it's really not how the majority of teens would handle it today. The book is additionally riddled with small cultural time capsules as well. Talk about how Orientals kill themselves for honor, going to the movie theater to watch a documentary on pygmies, and the complete and total lack of any mention of STDs all combine to make this book an interesting window into the past.
To some degree it does still speak to teens today. I was especially amused by the Sex Ed. teacher's advice on how to stop a guy from going all the way, (suggest going out for a hamburger). The characters were interesting as well. Liz, unfortunately, isn't a character you're going to identify with intrinsically. Yes, it's sad that she doesn't get along with her parents. But she's such a self-absorbed person, constantly ridiculing her best friend and at the same time dragging Maggie into horrid and uncomfortable situations, that by the end you feel zippo pity for her. In fact, you're supposed to end this story hating and pitying Sean who got her pregnant in the first place. Curse those lustful young men that refuse to marry their knocked up girlfriends! Curse them! This book probably read very well in the 1970s and I could even see it having some interesting points in the 1980s. But by the 1990s with the advent of AIDS better known and the options available to teens widening, books like this one began to read more as cautionary tales than as contemporary novels. I've no doubt that "My Darling, My Hamburger" was riveting and shocking when it first came out. Unfortunately, that's certainly no longer the case. I recommend it as a glimpse into the America that once was. If you'd like to know more about the history of the Young Adult novel, this is a good book to pick up. Just don't expect it to have too many insights to offer today. I'm afraid it's no longer that meaningful.

Reviewed in Canada on March 18, 2003

I read this book in high school and loved it. It was written in a way that felt just like my life at the time. I just bought it again recently and I still love it. One of my favorite books of all time. Paul Zindel is an amazing author!

Reviewed in Canada on December 7, 2001

i love this book and would reccomend it to any teenage person...male or female. i usually hate stories of teenage life, but this was very good..highly recommended!

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jorge centeno

My Darling, My Hamburger

Reviewed in Canada on May 30, 2000

My Darling,My Hambuger is a well written novel by Paul Zindel that might illustrtate the life of a teen durign hi high school years.This novel focuses on four teens and the struggles they go through while growing up. Paul focuses on the problems of an intimate relationship and the decisions the teens make at that moment. While this book explores issues of teens I highly recommend it to others. This novel focuses on the issue of sex and it helps teenagers understand how complicated it gets if the teenager decides to develope a intimid relationship. The novel ilustrates how some parents ignore this issue and it also mentions how some parents deal with it. Overall this novel is very interesting and short. Paul really emphasizes what sex can lead to and at the same time gets into teenagers head to really think about doing things out before executing them. Even though this book is mainy aim at teenagers in American cultureparents and others culture can relate to them. The story gives hidden messages about how a parent can help a teen age son or daughter instead of ignoring them.

Reviewed in Canada on December 11, 2001

This book was a delight at first to read, then it started to use issues that I think were very disgusting and since I am in 8th grade I refused to write my book report on this subject and discuss it in front of my piers. But if you're looking for a book about abortion and sex, this is the book for you.

Reviewed in Canada on August 26, 2000

This book was more a series of sparse vignettes than an actual story. The fact is, something will happen, and then on the next page it will have come to a conclusion without any information on how that happened. The story wasn't too good, and the characters were flimsy. Although Mr. Zndel is generally a brilliant, brilliant writer, this book just did not measure up to the standards it's being judged against. If you're looking for some real Zindel, try I Never Loved Your Mind.

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Sheri Heffner

This is a very good book

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2023

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My Darling My Hamburger is about Seventeen year old Elizabeth,called Liz Carstenian. Her boyfriend is Sean Collins. Liz's best friend is Maggie Tobin. They are in their Senior year of high school and Liz and Sean have regular arguments. Sean's father is a total creep. Liz has a Stepfather since her father passed away. Liz gets into a fight with Sean and meets a much older boy who is nineteen. Named Rod. Sean gets Liz pregnant and tells her he loves her and wants to marry her and after they graduate in two months, move to California and he has a job waiting and a small apartment. Sean's creep of a father talks him into giving her money for an abortion. On Prom Night Liz is driven to a doctor in a town miles away By Rod with Maggie
joining them. Liz has a severe reaction and tells no one in her house. I didn't like the part where illegal abortion happens, the book was written in 1969. I also don't like the fact that underage kids drink beer and smoke cigarettes. I did like it because there are just a few swear words and not one F bomb or S words or the other disgusting words kids say. Liz called Sean an SOB. That was probably the only offensive word. There are letters Liz writes to Maggie and Sean in Cursive writing and there aren't many people under the age of Forty that can even read Cursive. I am 60 so I was taught Cursive.

Victoria

A Hidden Gem

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2019

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I read this book years ago (during the 80s) when I was in high school. It really made an impact on me. I looked for it for years but remember the name or author and the fact that there is an abortion in it does not seem to be common knowledge. No librarians knew about. I tried regular search engines. All of my efforts were to no avail until this past weekend when I came across a children literature database on my university’s website. I found it right away with very little effort. I quickly purchased a digital copy.
The most astonishing thing is that the book came out in 1969 and Roe Wade didn’t pass until 1972.
Just as good as I remembered. Character development is strong. Sometimes in life, we have to live with the limitations that have been placed upon us. As a teen, I remember a certain part of the book seeming stressful but now I think the author really wrote with a lot of restraint.

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LM KAUFMAN

As an adult I see why I loved this book as a teen

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2016

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What a book! I read this at school as a teen and its scenes and themes always stayed with me. I re-read it as an adult and discovered so much more in there I had overlooked the first time around. It represents the teenage experience with intense truth; dealing with controversial and emotive subject matter (teenage pregnancy and abortion) in a way that is both raw and warmly humanistic. As an adult I see why I loved this book as a teen: its non-judgemental, insightful understanding of teenagers and their fears, desires and challenges is refreshing. Told from four viewpoints (including notes, letters and even a short story by a key character) we are given a privileged aerial view of a messy situation for all involved as well as deep insight into the motives and highly-charged feelings of the characters. This is not a sentimental book - although I admit I did cry at the end - but a well-conceived and well-written one. Paul Zindel is a wonderful writer who is able to get under the skin of the teenage experience and knows a thing or two about subtext.

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Julie Kendrick

Great Condition for a Used Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2020

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This was a book that I’d loved when I was a teenager. It was fantastic to read it again. Having the hardback edition was great and the condition of the book was very good. Thank you so much.

Felicia Anderson

One of my favorites

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2017

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One of my favorites books as a teenager, I read it twice as a class assignment and again on my own both times it took me less than a hour to complete

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