Product Description

At loose ends the summer their parents separate, fourteen-year-old twins open and operate a restaurant with the help of their friends.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2327808 in Books
• Published on: 1982-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Unexpected Young Adult Literature
Norma Klein is one of the most important authors of Y/A fiction since Judy Blume. Her books realistically portray the lives of young women and men, and are entertaining as well. It's Not What You Expect is no exception. It is a wonderfully told story of a summer in the lives of two twins who are adjusting to the facts about their parents and life in general. The fact that the book depicts an abortion in a matter-of-fact way is unusual, but realistic and affirming to many women. Klein shows that abortion is not necessarily a traumatic experience as many anti-choicers would have people believe. Anyway, it is only one aspect of this entertaining book. I'm only sorry that it's out of print. Seek it, and any other Norma Klein books out in used bookstores and on Amazon.com. Her books are worthwhile and even challenging depictions of the lives of realistic young people. Another reviewer is obviously disturbed by the sexual content of the book, but needs to join the real world. Teens have sex-the important thing is to help them make good decisions about sex, not to try to prevent them from reading about it.

Enjoyable tale of growing up & realizing adults are human :)
Obstensibly the story of twins who start a restaurant to keep busy during summer vacation, it's also coping with a father having a mid-life crisis and a brother who isn't as perfect as he seems.

It's not what you expect
I liked the book and it was easy to read it. I couldn't put it down. But this book contains some things that I can't agree with. For example, when girl Lesly (I that was her name) got pregnant she had an abortion. It tells how easy it was and that it was something unimportant. I mean it teaches children wrong thing. It tells how good it is to have sexual affairs before marriage. And many characters in the book just tell how much they want to be sexually involved. All I want to say is that books should contain good morals and values that will be passed on to the next generation.