It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager
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| Author | Anonymous (Beatrice Sparks) |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Prentice Hall |
| Publication date | March 1994 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 236 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN-13: 9780380773152 |
It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager (ISBN 0-380-77315-5) is a book for young adults by Beatrice Sparks. It purports to be an actual diary only edited by Sparks about a teenage girl who gets AIDS through being raped. However, Sparks has released similar books where the authorship has been called into question.
[edit] Plot Summary
Nancy is a 14 year old girl who just wants to have fun while at a concert with her friends. While being there she has an asthma attack and an eighteen-year old guy named Collin helps her. He takes her outside and tells her to relax. From that day on she starts talking to him everyday afterschool. One night, she invites him to her house when her mother is not home, and he rapes her. After that night, when she begins to look for Collin, it turns out that he does not study in the college he told her. She begins feeling very sick later on, and easily exhausted. Then one day, when her mother takes her to the doctor, she has blood samples taken. She then learns that she has HIV and doesn't know what to do; she just wants to die and feels that she doesn't have anything on earth for her. Her closest friends help her out, along with her boyfriend Lew. While at school lots of kids don't know that she has HIV, her friends support her the whole way. Nancy and her parents become closer even though her parents are divorced. Later she dies and wishes for her diary to be published so that other young teenagers like her can know the real truth.
