First Day

By Ally Condie

Book Overview

Jobs. Missions. College. Love. In the sequel to Yearbook, the characters are in the middle of it all. Two and a half years after we left off, Andrea Beckett is a junior at Cornell University in New... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590387759
• ISBN13: 9781590387757
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Shadow Mountain
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

Great Continuation

I really liked this book - possibly better than the first. I liked how we get to know Andrea really well, to see what makes those people who we sometimes just don't get tick. I loved how Ethan wasn't perfect, that he had to learn while on his mission and spend some time really deciding who he really is. This is a great read, maintaining the element of that which is truly real and keeping the characters as people really are and showing that life doesn't always coast merrily along, but it is always worth the ride. Thanks Ally for another great reading experience.

Your next favorite book

This book is about some of the charecters from the old book and a few new ones as well, allot better than the other a worthy read.

Loved this book!

First Day and her companion piece, "The Yearbook" are excellent reads. I am eager to read more from this author.

Even better than Yearbook!

First Day is a perfect way to continue the trilogy that I fell in love with when I read Yearbook. As usual, Condie shows us humor, friendship, just the right amount of spirituality, a little romance, and an honest look at so many other real-life issues. Once again, it's all presented through the eyes of characters that we grow to genuinely care about. An excellent book for readers of all ages, but particularly young adults.Yearbook

No sophomore slump!

Everyone knows sequels are dangerous territory. Fortunately for Condie (and the rest of us) First Day avoids the land minds and stands up extremely well next to her first book, Yearbook, which is one of my all-time YA favorites. In First Day, the story narrows from a wide variety of players to a smaller core, and the results are wonderful! Condie has retained and developed the most appealing and endearing characters. (particularly Andrea, because if you didn't know an Andrea when you went to high school, then you played a lot of hooky) Condie uses the same challenging device to continue telling these charcaters' stories, and she dazzles us again. The writing is a breath of fresh of air in a genre that, quite frankly, needed new blood. As a longtime fan of LDS YA fiction, I'm thrilled to see the bar raised. (FYI, if you like Allyson Condie you'll also like Kay Lynn Mangum's books. She's another new voice in this niche.)