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[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Lizzy Baby" by Sarah P Blanchard.]

Lizzy Baby by Sarah P. Blanchard is a fictional novella about a young farm girl named Lizzy. She has daily farm chores like watering and feeding her heifer, gathering the eggs and feeding the chickens, and helping her mother fold laundry. Every Sunday, Lizzy attends church with her family. Lizzy’s parents decide that the best way for her to learn about sex is to allow her to watch a bull with her heifer. Lizzy confides in her best friend, Stephanie, how violent the cow sex was. Stephanie explains to her the difference between lust-sex and love-sex. One Sunday evening, Lizzy and her mother serve a spaghetti dinner at the church. Lizzy starts feeling sick, and her mother has Lizzy’s 20-year-old cousin Joey take her home. Joey masturbates in front of her, tells her they will do more later, and makes her promise to keep it secret. What can Lizzy do? Should she tell her parents what happened? Should she confide in her best friend, Stephanie? Will anyone believe a nine-year-old girl?

The best thing about this short 32-page book was the development of each of the characters. Ms. Blanched described each of the physical and emotional traits of the characters, events, and locations so well that I could picture them in my mind. I was able to feel the emotions of each of the characters regardless if it was happiness, sadness, excitement, anger, or lust.

The one thing I disliked about the book was the ending. The ending was abrupt and not what I expected. I felt like there should have been a bit more to the book ending. The book ending was more for a book in a series. If the author is planning to write another book about Lizzy, I would be interested in reading it.

I believe this well-written book has been edited by a professional. I gladly give this fast-paced book 4 out of 4 stars]. I had a hard time putting the book down once I started reading it.

I recommend this book for adults only. There is some sexual content that is not appropriate for teenagers and may be offensive to some readers. Readers should be aware that the terms for male body parts, both humans and animals, are in the book. The profanity is mild and would probably not be offensive to most readers. Lizzy’s mother is religious, and there are church activities in the book, which makes the book more appropriate for Christians than other religious or non-religious readers.

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Coming-of-age books are always interesting but emotionally hard to read for me. I'll probably not be reading this book because of the mature content but the plot sounds interesting though.

This sounds to be an interesting book.
The characters are portrayed nicely.
You wrote a wonderful review

Was Lizzy's parents right to allow her to learn about sex in that manner?

Reviewer100, that's a very good question. Not the way good parents would handle it, right? Vulnerable girl in a dysfunctional family.

The parents certainly sound like they have unorthodox methods of child rearing,

Thanks for the great review! This sounds like an interesting book. However, I don't agree with the parent's idea of sex education! Some parents find it difficult to talk to their children about sex, but I don't think letting them observe animals having sex is the answer!

I find what happens to lizzy revolting. However it is a common occurrence and i cannot assume so i would love to read this book. It seems educational. Great review.

Sexual molestation within a religious family is a tough subject. Such an event can destroy a girl if she can't find any help, so I wonder what happened to Liz. Thank you for your great review!

The premise reminded me of an existing movie. I think this book is worth a read if only to create discourse and a reason to engage in critical thinking about disturbing events like what was featured in the book.

From the review this book comes across as a dark story of a young girl experiencing the realities of life with no support from the adults around her. It sounds just like the type of books I like to read.

Life can be hard for kids like Lizzy. After expressing something so awful, the trust and love can fade away forever. My heart is already broken after hearing this sad story.

I think this book is fantastic for adult and teenagers because now-a-days every younger want to sex or sometime masturbate for their relaxation.second thing in this book, author explain that how can take sex education to your child because sex is main part of life for all organisms including animals,brids and somehow insects. Therefore, author think that by writing a book on a story base is best way to acknowledge the people's. Third one is that,in every religious family there is difficult to teach sex education to thier children. According to my point of view sex education is a base need of every teenager and youngster in this century.

This review sets me up in excitement!
The book shows a timely representation of situations common in the country sides.

That is disturbing! Why would Lizzie's parents teach a 9-year-old about sex by making her watch a bull? And a 20-year-old masturbating in front of a kid? I'm definitely skipping this book.
Great review though.