Jenna Bush To Pen Book About HIV

Non-Fiction Book Will Center On 17-year-old Single Mother Who Is HIV Positive

(AP)  Jenna Bush is writing a nonfiction book for young adults, "Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope," that will center on a 17-year-old single mother who is HIV positive.

Based on her time working for UNICEF, the book will be published this fall by HarperCollins.

"I have been inspired by my work with adolescents in Central and South America," Jenna Bush said in a statement released by her publisher Tuesday.

"These young people have faced extreme hardships and exclusion but are strong in spirit and have an incredible will to succeed. Through their stories, it is my hope to motivate young Americans to increase their awareness of other young people around the world: to learn about the challenges they face, how they triumph over adversity, and to become involved in helping them."

Financial terms were not disclosed, although bidding had reportedly topped $300,000. Some of the author and publisher proceeds will be donated to the U.S. fund for UNICEF.

Bush, 25, has been a UNICEF intern since fall 2006, working in Argentina, Paraguay and Panama, where she is now teaching at a shelter.

"We were very moved by Jenna's passion for this project," Susan Katz, president and publisher of HarperCollins Children's Books, said in a statement. "Her message in this book is about hope, involvement and inclusion, told through one teenager's story of survival and strength."

[agnim]

"What's there to criticize about a young person doing positive work and volunteering their time.

Posted by standlee5 at 10:52 PM : Mar 07, 2007"

She has something or someone (a more urgent problem) closer AT HOME to work on!

All this is just photo op; because we know that she's no writer but an alcoholic who should be in rehab!

[standlee5]

Good for Jenna Bush. She's doing something important with her time and I will look forward to reading her book. What's there to criticize about a young person doing positive work and volunteering their time.

[agnim]

If Jenna would write a book about how she is able to stand living with a dad who murders hundreds of thousands of human beings (including thousands of Americans) without losing sleep, them I might read it.

[agnim]

"How come you people don't come donw on Carters kid or bubba kid? they all wrote books that had nothing to do with anything.

Posted by gunnerv1 at 12:58 PM : Mar 07, 2007"

Come on, do you really believe that with bush's brain that he could produce offspring that writes books? LOL

The dad was a drunk who obviously lost most of his brain cells!
And that alcoholic syndrome we know for sure he passed on to the girls. They were alcoholics even at an early age! LOL

Dad can't make a coherent sentence.
Daughters can't right coherent sentences enough to fill a real book! LOL

[ekucrew]

How come you people don't come donw on Carters kid or bubba kid? they all wrote books that had nothing to do with anything.

Name the year that Chelsea Clinton (Stanford) and Amy Carter (Brown) got arrested by ABC agents for drinking underage in a bar.

[randalds]

How come you people don't come donw on Carters kid or bubba kid? they all wrote books that had nothing to do with anything.
Posted by gunnerv1 at 12:58 PM : Mar 07, 2007

Because they were intelligent young women who actually did the things they wrote about. Jenna and Barbara are two trust fund brats who are of the same moral and intelligence level of Paris and Brittany. Now were supposed top believe one of them suddenly became smart and socially aware? Not bloody likely!

[gunnerv1]

How come you people don't come donw on Carters kid or bubba kid? they all wrote books that had nothing to do with anything.

[randalds]

I wonder who in the White House PR department is writing it for her? I mean this is a girl who along with her sister was kicked out of Argentina for partying too much. I mean come on! How bad do have to be to get kicked out of Argentina!!! And now we're expected to believe she's writing a book? BULLS*HIT!!

[michellem99-2009]

I can't believe that Miss Jenna Bush can't take the time to write about issues in the US of A. She could write a book about thing at home.

[agnim]

What a travesty. LOL

Daughter is trying to save them so that dad can have them murdered by the hundreds of thousands?

Just whom do this destructive family think they are fooling?

I dare her to go to Iraq to save the children her father have damaged and left parent-less.

Someone else can handle this photo op! Tsk-tsk

[lanaedawn]

I am surprised not one poster said anything positive about this.

It seems that Ms. Bush has gotten over her partying crazy ways and found something worthwhile to do.

Everyone acts like they didn't have a fake ID or engage in underage drinking or the normal things teenagers and college freshman do. Give her a break.

[thickredhair]

Something strange goin on
Something's wrong
Gloom in the room
Outside is the storm
All alone in the crib
Watchin the tube
Yo-o-o-o is that what I think?
Did I see somethin move?
Chill down your spine
Your heart fills with fright
Not filled by the things
that GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT
They walk through the walls
With no time to stall
You call the GHOSTWRITERS
Well that's who you call!


But I do think its a good subject, its about time someone in the Bush family got some sense in their head.

[ekucrew]

So who is the ghost writer?

If she needs to be further inspired, why doesn't she volunteer on some extended Habitat for Humanity builds currently underway in the Gulf Coast region.....

[rharrin1]

Was she drunk or sober

[jerr11]

Perhaps her next book should be:

"Lessons From My Father: How to Stay Out of a Foolish War by Hiding in Alabama Or Argentina"

[anopinion1]

how about the story of most 17 year olds that get it...dont know they have it ....spread it around for years......find out they have it........get pissed at the world........try to spread it around even more so other have to feel their pain.......

[dallison7]

"I have been inspired by my work with adolescents in Central and South America,"

I seriously doubt she spent any time with children othertha his photo op

[imprisonbush]

Fuziwuzi: You are surely correct about her using ghostwriters. My comment was meant as a slap to King George and his illiteracy.

[Ed0719]

I simply don't believe she has written anything. There are paid "ghostwriters" and researchers doing the work. She is simply having photo ops, posing with children, to cover the fact that her and her sister are drunken party girls, just like their father. :-)

[imprisonbush]

Why is this news? Because it suggests that the offspring of King George can actually read and write. Incredible! Now perhaps she can teach her father.