Ana's Story by Jenna Bush (2007, Hardcover)

Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.com

First Daughter Jenna Bush spent time during an internship with UNICEF working throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. During that time, she met a young girl named Ana. This is Ana's story, and it's one filled with hurt and abuse, with illness and disease, but also with hope and triumph.

Ana was born with HIV/AIDS. She knew, from the time she was young, that she was different from many other children. She was sick, and she didn't understand why. When she loses first her mother and then her father to AIDS, Ana knows pain and heartbreak. And then the abuse starts, from uncaring relatives to whose homes she gets shuffled around to.

Ana's life seems to take a turn for the better when she finds a center that specializes in the treatment of her disease -- and when she meets Berto, a young man with whom Ana can, for the first time, share the secret of her illness. What once seems like a death sentence turns into the longing to have as normal a life as possible, including an education, a family, and a future with Berto.

ANA'S STORY is both Miss Bush's story of serving as a UNICEF ambassador and Ana's story of wanting a better life for her young daughter, who was born without the HIV/AIDS virus. It's at times both sad and uplifting, but above all serves as a reminder that this disease is a very real problem that demands a solution. Filled with several photographs and written in short, easy-to-read chapters, it's the story of one brave young adult for all young adults.

I liked this book cause it was a true story and i love Jenna Bush she tells a great story about women and life. I decided to buy it cause she did an interview and i thought it would be an interesting story. I would recommend this book to everyone.

This is a great piece of writing. You won't want to put this book down. I hope Jenna writes more about Ana as time progresses. The book gives you a different perspective on the lives of people living with HIV/Aids.

Excellent book. Well written and easy to read. Read the entire book in 2 nights. Very eye opening to the average american. This book is good for both the adult reader and the young adult as well. Would like to see Jenna Bush write more books, I would buy them without a doubt. Good Job.

because it sounded like a good book and expensive in a book store did not dislike anything. It fit my buget.

its a wonderful book i laughed and cried at the end. the book was not what I expected from the presidents daughter. It was a book for a teenager not an adult

The book was interesting.I liked the way it explained about children and Hiv, and how it affects there life. It had plenty of information to where you could contact certain athorities about just about anything. I did not like how it just ended. I felt like it was a total waste of time reading it, considering you dont know the rest of the story.It states that Ana is going to finish the story herelf, but when will that be? I bought it because i like to read true life stories.But this one disappointed me simply because of the way it ended.

I decided to buy the book because I had seen it in book clubs and I also like true stories. I like how Ana talks of how she never told her story to many people because she knew she would be judged