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FIVE STAR REVIEW.....EXCELLENT!!! ~CVH
Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby is about teenager girl named Joey who is deaf. Her mother will not allow her to learn sign language because she is afraid that other people will think she is not normal. Joey struggles to read lips, but basically the only person she really understands is her mom. One day she meets her elderly next door neighbor and discovers that he knows sign language. He invites her back to his house and introduces her to his chimpanzee Sukari (who also signs.) Joey is ecstatic about learning sign, but her mother forbids it. Secretly Joey starts sneaking over to her neighbor's house for sign language lessons. One day, her mom catches her. WIll her mom allow her to continue to learn sign? Or will she be turned away from Sukari and her neighbor forever? Be sure to check out this book to find out! --Amy (Texas)
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Repossessed By A.M Jenkins - This is a story about a boy named Shaun, His body was actually taken over by a "Fallen Angel" right before his own death, In this story the demon expiriences things that only a NORMAL Human would know of, such as smell, touch, and sight. He is amazed at how interesting and controlling the human life can actually be. Shauns body is in for a long ride as he is actually making himself a better person from the "inside" ahem ahem. Shaun eventually realizes what he has in life, and starts to realize how important you really are to the world. Plus he met a pretty girl over time. This was my favorite book of the year, it recieves a :thumbup: - Ricky D. SEP Iowa
Witni (Iowa)- Gossip Girls. My book is about these girls that live in New York are all very rich, and some of them are very stuck up. Blair and Serena usted to be best friends, untill Serena sleeps with Nate, Blair's boyfriend. Then they stopped talking, until Blair's mom wants to get re-married. Blair's mom decides that she wants Blair and her friends to be her bridesmaies, so Blair has to put up with Serena for the weekend. They day Blair's mom got married was Blair's birthday. She decided she was going to try to be friends with Serena, so they became friends again.
Cassidy (Iowa)- Gossip Girls series, it's a book about a group of teenage friends who have a lot of money, they soon find out that just because they have money, doesn't mean they have happiness. Every single one of the spoiled friends have their own problems. Whether it's because your in love with your best friend's boyfriend or because you idolize someone that doesn't know your name.
Beth (Iowa) Leslie's Journal- My book was about a girl who getts a boyfreind and he is abusive. Then she figures out that the he has also been abusive to other people. She goes and tells her parents and they don't beleive her. They go to court. He gets put in prision.
Kyle (Iowa)
Fade To Black
Fade To Black, written by Alex Flinn, is a book about a high-school student who has been diagnosed with AIDS and how he copes with peer pressure and bullies. The theme of this book would be dealing with the fact that there are bullies out there and that you have to be nice to everyone no matter what.
In this book there are three main characters who express there points of views. There is Alejandro or Alex Crusan, Clinton Cole, and Daria. They each talk from first person point of view. It takes place in Pinedale, Florida. Alex Crusan is diagnosed with AIDS and he has to go to school and get ridiculed by students that attend there. The biggest bully is Clinton Cole and his friends. Clinton bullies Alex everyday until he takes it one step to far and accidently hurts Alex. Daria is a mentally challenged girl who likes Alex and watches everything he does.
I am sixteen years old and I felt this book was okay for a high-school student. It had a good plot and good suspense but I didn’t really like the whole idea of the plot being about AIDS or HIV. My expectations were exactly where I thought they would be after finishing this book because it didn’t have a lot of action. I thought it was going to be okay and it was.
The characters in this book were believable because they seemed to be normal high-school students. There were some points in the book where it would get boring and hard to keep reading, but when the action and suspense did happen it was a page turner. The style of the writing was different from anything I’ve read before because it had three different characters each telling there side of the story. Word choice was good in this book because the characters talked like high-school students.
The one thing that I would do to change this book would be to create more action between Clinton Cole and Alex Crusan. The book showed a couple of things that proved Clinton Cole to be a bully but I feel they could have included more. Other than that the book was set up well and was a good read.
If you were in a situation where you could put your bully away and get him or her in trouble, would you? In this book it shows how even though Alex got bullied by Clinton he was still nice to him and cared about his well-being.
I think this book is suitable for anyone that is in high-school or is diagnosed with AIDS or HIV. It could even be a book for someone who knows someone with HIV or AIDS. I would give this book a 4 star rating.
Kirstin (Iowa)
BURNED
Burned, written by Ellen Hopkins is defiantly a great read full of excitement, calamities, love, and surprise. Hopkins book shows the life of Pattyn Scarlet Von Stratten, a Mormon girl, who is tired of the Mormon lifestyle and suddenly, goes against her family and the rules of her home, church, and school. Burned is a book relating that people deal with tragedies all different ways.
Pattyn’s father spends most of the time drunk and angry while her mother dreads taking care of an entire household of nine and one on the way. Pattyn outrageously rebels against her Mormon lifestyle and falls into a great amount of trouble. Her father decides to ship her off to her aunt’s house far into the country for the summer, hoping to get her to stay out of trouble. She learns quite a bit by living with her aunt and even meets a new boy, Ethan. Little does her father know that was probably the best thing for Pattyn.
The authors writing style is real eye catching. The way she wrote the book is a new way of reading and writing. It will literally keep you on the edge of your seat. Hopkins fast paced style of writing is so powerful it will keep you turning the page. No matter where you’re at you will want to be reading Burned.
I at seventeen years old read this book for my high school popular fiction class. I expected it to be a quick and exciting read and I didn’t think it would be when I opened the book to page 532. Little did I know I wouldn’t want to put it down no matter where I was at or what I was doing at the time. Expectations were well met with this book
I as reader enjoyed the book a ton. It’s a book more about finding your inner self and who you really want to be in life and I as well as any teenager could well relate. Being a teenager you face many tribulations whether they are happy, sad, or about love and finding your fairytale ending like all girls wish. We all grow and mature and all have to find who we really are and reading a book like Burned and being a part of Pattyn’s journey and realizing she goes through the same things that a teenage girl goes through you really like knowing that you’re not alone. That is way I liked this book.
If I were the author I would have not had Pattyn lose the love of her life by any means. They would have lived happily ever after. Yet Hopkins novels do end tragically this one I would have made different from the others I would have drawn out the ending a little bit further and added lots of more detail. I would have also added more of Ethan’s perspective.
This is a very appropriate novel that I recommend any high school student should read. It is a very exciting and surprising eye opener that any teenager could relate too and Burned will have you reading until late hours of the morning!
Allison (Iowa)
Truth About Forever
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen is a thought-provoking novel with a fresh outlook on life. The theme, you are truly happy when you are being true to who you are and not who others want you to be, is what the main character, Macy Queen, doesn’t realize.
Macy Queen is going to be a high school senior and thinks that she has everything figured out. She has a boyfriend, Jason, who she thinks is the portrait of perfection. He is smart, cute, and has his whole life figured out. That’s what Macy believes she needs after her father died unexpectedly the day after Christmas. Of course she blames herself because she didn’t get up to run with him that morning. This story takes place on the East Coast in a small town, and follows Macy as she spends the summer preparing for her SATs and working at the library.Meanwhile Jason is away at a camp for smart people, also known as “Brain Camp.” Little did she know her life was about to change when she met the Wish catering crew.
I read this book for my Popular Fiction class and I chose this novel because I’ve read other Sarah Dessen novels and loved them. When I began reading this book, I thought it would just be about a teen who learns that life isn’t always what it seems. However, as I got further into the book, it made me start to think about life and what being happy really entails. When I finished it, I was left with a whole new set of questions about life that can’t be answered with one single answer, its different for everyone. Overall, I really liked this book and learned a lot while reading it.
The characters in the book were very believable, even Jason. They showed real emotions and reactions you would expect from a normal person. Once example is when Macy draws her feelings inward when her father dies because her sister took care of all of the crying for both her and her mom. “When my dad died, we all reacted in different ways. My sister seemed to take on our cumulative emotional reaction: she cried so much she seemed to be shriveling right in front of our eyes. I sat quiet, silent, angry, refusing to grieve, because it seemed like to do so would be giving everyone what they wanted.” (12) The beginning of the story is a bit slow but after a couple of chapters of the author telling about the life of the main character, it picks up and gets very interesting.
There are many questions about life that are asked in this book. A few examples are: Does perfection exist? If you are perfect, are you truly happy? Should you change who you are to be with someone else? These questions do not have a definitive answer, but are different for everyone.
I would recommend this book for anyone who is questioning what the purpose of life is or anyone who just wants a good read. I think it’s a good choice for a high school student because it deals with issues a student might and are possibly dealing with. I give this book 4 ½ stars. This book won’t let you down in compassion, questions, and some possible answers.
Courtney (Iowa)
Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
Dreamland by Sarah Dessen is a novel about finding ones inner self. In this novel it is about a 16 year old girl, Caitlin, finding who she really is.
The book starts with Caitlin waking up on her 16th birthday to find that her older sister, Cass, has ran away. Caitlin’s parents are in such a panic they don’t even remember to say happy birthday or acknowledge Caitlin. The only person who remembers is her sister who left a present before she left that morning. Throughout the novel the reader learns to understand things from Caitlin’s point of view. The reader learns that Cass has always been the perfect daughter. She is the smart, athletic, and all around good girl. This is hard for Caitlin because even though she loves Cass very much she feels like the runner up daughter. Once Cass is gone it’s up to Caitlin to fill in the empty spaces.
Caitlin gives in to her best friend, Rina, and becomes a cheerleader. This makes her mom so proud and gives her mom something to do, other than cry over Cass’ leaving. After a game one night Caitlin meets a boy named Rogerson at a car wash. She ends up seeing him again at a party later that night and leaves with him. What the reader and Caitlin do not know is that being with Rogerson may end up hurting Caitlin worse than her sister leaving.
The setting of the novel is an average city. Caitlin and her parents live in a housing development called Lake View. Rogerson lives in an upper class housing development not far from Caitlin. The tone of the novel is serious, fun, sad, and much more. It is perfect along with perfect word choice with each situation.
I loved this book. I wasn’t expecting a great novel, I just chose one to read and get it over with. This book definitely exceeded my expectations. I loved the author’s style of writing and plan to read more of Sarah Dessen’s novels. She made everything realistic; nothing was far fetched or dumb. She kept the reader into the book, she drug your heart into it. The reader got a great description of all the characters, the setting, and how Caitlin felt at all times.
The only thing I would change about the novel is possibly adding to the end. Give the reader more of a closing. Other than that the novel is perfect the way it is.
Dreamland tells the story of finding ones inner self. It really questions how far you’ll go for love or how much you’ll take. I give the novel a 5-star rating.
Stacey (Iowa)-Begging for Change- My book is about this girl named Raspberry and she lives with her mom and they lived in the projects to start out with. They moved into an aparment and her mother was trying to clean up the neighborhood and this one girl named Shekita didn't like it so she hits the mother in the head with a metal pipe. Raspberry is hanging out with her friend, Zora and she went to the bathroom and Raspberry stole some of her money. They aren't friends anymore. One day her dad comes to visit and her mom is at work and her dad steals money from her and it was about 200 dollars and he used it to buy drugs and beer. Now Raspberry knows how Zora feels about getting stolen from. I wonder what will happen with their friendship with Zora and her dad.
Ashly M. (Iowa) – The Reef – Tate Beaumont and her parents are searching for a long lost ship at sea, The Isabella, but what she finds is not what she expected. Matthew Lassiter is cute, sexy and dangerous. He and his uncle are also after The Isabella, which according to legend holds a cursed necklace within. Matthew believes that it was the dreaded cursed necklace that killed his father. Now someone knows that they have found her, and they’re going to do anything to get the necklace from Matthew and Tate. They must join together, put their differences aside and find the killer, before he finds them.
The Face on the Milk Carton by: Caroline B. Cooney
Janie Johnson drinks milk one day and sees a missing girl on it. She gets a flash back of the same dress and hair style as the girl. Janie then wonders why she doesn’t look like her parents or have any baby pictures. She finds a picture of a lady who looks just like her. She asks her parents but they don’t say anything. So Janie runs away to go look for her mom.
Monster By: Walter Dean Myers
Steven Harmon is on trial for being part of robbery. But you really don’t know if he is because the other side of it was because he was actually there to get something. So throughout the book you’re wondering if he’s guilty or innocent and his parents and his own layer thinks that he’s guilty. So he doesn’t really have a chance against the court.
Courtney(Iowa), Until We Meet Again, By. Anne Schraff--(for teens) A teenage girl named Darcy who goes to Blufford High thinks everything is going great with her family, friends, and boyfriend ; until everything unexpectidly changes. Her boyfriend is moving, and her grandma is ill, her dad is moving back in. There is so much drama, and not enough time.
Courtney(Iowa), Brothers in Arms, By. Paul Langan and Ben Alirez---(for teens) Martin Luna is a teenage boy in highschool, who is always chiling with his homies, getting drunk,and into fights. Until one day his little brother Huero , who Martin has always pushed away gets shot ina driveby. Things starty to change immediatly as his mother transfer him to a new school. His gangster life and ways change.
Courtney(Iowa), The Gun, By. Paul Langan--(for teens) Tyray is a young teenager whose life revolves around bullying kids smaller then him; for there money. Until one day Darrell, a kid Tyray bullies is tired of getting bullied, and starts a fight. Darrell wins, but ends up breaking Tyray's arm. Tyray is up for revenge by getting a gun. Read to find out the shocking ending.
CeCe Mills (Iowa)--Grace Happens-- (it is considered Young Adult) This book is about a girl whose mother is an actress and she has no idea about her father. She and her mom return to her mother's home town for a vaction. It tells of her adventure in trying to figure out who her father is.
CVH (IA) Black and White by Paul Volponi. The author speaks of "black and white" issues, but he also goes deep into the human soul and gives guidance on how to live a content, happy life. This book could be a self-help book on dealing with the "big and small" mistakes made in life, change, stress, and growing up! There are numerous quotes I admire, but my favorite is: (school officer speaking to Marcus mother) "I know he's made some mistakes. But that's what adolescents do. Marcus is the type of young man who's going to learn from what he did wrong. He's going to pick himself back up and succeed. And one day, other kids from this neighborhood are going to look up to him for that." (p.131) The book is open-ended at the end. But that's okay and will leave the reader content. There will be ups and downs after the final page and much food for thought in the reader's imagination.
Virginia (IA)-- The Pact by Jodi Picoult. Christ and Emily grow up next door to each other. Best friends, but as they reach adolescence, they fall in love. Now Chris is on trial for the murder of Emily. He claims it was a suicide pact, but he also says that he was never suicidal, it was all Emily's urgent need to die.
TyAnh(IA)--The Face on the Milk Carton by: Caroline B. Cooney. Janie Johnson drinks milk one day and sees a missing girl on it. She gets a flash back of the same dress and hair style as the girl. Janie then wonders why she doesn’t look like her parents or have any baby pictures. She finds a picture of a lady who looks just like her. She asks her parents but they don’t say anything. So Janie runs away to go look for her mom.
TyAnh(IA)--Monster By: Walter Dean Myers. Steven Harmon is on trial for being part of robbery. But you really don’t know if he is because the other side of it was because he was actually there to get something. So throughout the book you’re wondering if he’s guilty or innocent and his parents and his own layer thinks that he’s guilty. So he doesn’t really have a chance against the court.
Jody(IA)-When It Happens-By:Susane Colasanti-
It’s about a girl who’s tired of boys who’s not up to her expectations. She wants a real relationship. But she hasn’t found the right guy. Then there’s a guy who has some flings but the whole time he wants the girl that wants a real relationship. And the girl doesn’t know that. This book is in two people perspectives.
Jody(IA)-The Beast-By:Walter Dean Myers-
About a guy who is going off to a better school leaving behind his girlfriend. But he has to go so he could get a better future. When he goes back to his hometown to visit, he sees things differently. He never noticed the little details and finds out so much stuff. He even found out stuff about this girlfriend.
Jody(IA)-Inexcusable-By:Chris Lynch-
It’s about a senior name Keir. He’s a really good guy. Well that’s what the author makes you think. But anyways, there’s a girl that is his best friend that doesn’t think he’s a good guy. Because the night of their graduation she saying he raped her but he’s saying that it wasn’t rape.
Kimberly (Iowa)--Ribbons of the Sun by Harriet Hamilton. This is a book that will make you cry, or at least it did for me. Its about a 12 year old Indian girl who suffers through the horable tragedy of being sold to a white family. She ends up getting pregnant and is on the street with a baby and no idea what shes doing. Can she make it or will she try to end it all?
Shelby-- I am reading the book Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis right now. This book is probably one of my favorite books I have read in a long time. It is one of those books that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Its is a about a women named Emily who had some very bad and some good relationships. Some of those relationships include Her and Her father. She does not call her dad she calls him by his firsat name Jim. He walked out on her and her mother when she was about 4 or 5. The have a strained relationship. Her and her mother are becoming pretty close because she finds out her mother has breast cancer and takes care of her. Then there is a guy named Sam who she has feelings for he is going through a divorse so she is there to comfort her i believe they will end up having something but i have not gotten to that place yet. I recommend this book to anyone who like real life kind of stories you can relate to.
Angelica (Iowa)
Deadline Review
Deadline by Chris Crutcher is a fiction novel about a senior in high school, Ben Wolf, that finds out he has cancer and has a year to live. A theme of this book is that you should live every day like it’s your last and never take things for granted.
Ben’s mom has a kind of bipolar disorder and has these crashes all the time. He always wants to help her get better and come out of her constant cycle of depression and mania. However, his dad always makes him leave the house for the night so he can take care of his wife himself. Then there’s Ben’s younger brother, Cody, who everyone in Trout High calls “Big Wolf.” He is the “big” one because even though he is a year below his brother, he is much bigger than him. So Ben is “Little Wolf,” according to everyone else. Ben reads Malcom X and shares his ideas of the book with the town drunk, Rudy.
Deadline is told in the first person point of view, by Ben. The tone is pretty much the same in the whole story, because Ben is just trying to make the best of his one year in Trout, Idaho with all of his friends, Dallas Suzuki (his girlfriend), and his parents. Ben’s goal is to do everything he’s ever wanted, all in one year. He dates the girl of his dreams, becomes a football star, and impact as many people as he can before his “deadline.”
I enjoyed this book, but it was too easy of a read for me. I like books with a wider vocabulary, because it’s more challenging and I learn from them, along with finding something to do. I think it’s interesting and bold of Ben to try that hard to name that street after Malcom X. However, before reading this I didn’t really expect it to be very difficult, so I wasn’t disappointed. As long as the reader goes into the book knowing it won’t be very challenging, they should enjoy this book.
I like the way the author characterized Rudy, Dallas, and Ben. Rudy was the town drunk and had no respect for anyone. He just stayed to himself all the time. Dallas, Ben’s girlfriend, was very confident and didn’t let anyone deceive her. She is a good example for many teen girls. Ben was a strong and realistic person. I can see someone being just like him; I kind of am, but not if I was dying. He’s kind of a rare personality, but definitely realistic. Deadline was kind of slow-paced in parts of the book, but it always picked right up.
If I were told that I have cancer and only have one year left to live if I didn’t receive therapy, I wouldn’t be torn at all on which decision to make. Ben decided not to take the therapy and just live his life to the fullest. I want to live as long as I can, healthy, and if it takes chemotherapy to do that, then so be it. Some other people would take Ben’s side, but it’d be a very hard decision to make, especially for someone as young as Ben, who was eighteen years old.
Someone who likes to read about people’s trials and tribulations, would enjoy this book. It’s more of an easy read than other books, but if the reader just wants something to do to pass the time, and they don’t need to have an intellectual novel, Deadline is definitely the one to check out.
Angelica (Iowa)
Side Effects Review
Side Effects by Amy Goldman Koss is a teen reality novel about a girl, Lizzy, with cancer. The theme of the story is to never give up when you are having problems, and to always try to have a good attitude about it.
Amy wakes up one day with swollen glands, so her mother brings her to the doctor. Her dad shows up too and after school, she calls her friend Kay. When she tells her about the cancer, Kay thinks she's kidding and goes on with some drama from school. Then when she finds out that it's true, she comes to the hospital with her mom to visit Lizzy. The whole time she's in the hospital, she's trying to get this kid from school to feel bad for her by calling him, but he doesn't even care. Side Effects is told in the first person point of view, by Lizzie. The tone stays the same because she has the same sarcastic, humorous attitude in the end as she did in the beginning. The setting is mostly in the children's hospital she has to stay at. The conflict in the novel is that Lizzy has lymphoma and is trying to fight it.
I generally like books that involve teen struggles, because it shows how good I have it. It's also interesting to read about how others' lives are, because I've never suffered like that or known anyone with cancer, where they were in critical condition. I would probably read this book again, just because I'm a sarcastic person and I understand Lizzy's humor in here.
I like the way Amy Goldman Koss characterized Lizzy in Side Effects, because like I said, I'm a sarcastic person and I understand her humor. I was laughing most of the time reading this, a cancer book for crying out loud. I just think Lizzy's personality made the book really interesting to read. It's also very believable because when older kids are in children's hospitals, they feel exactly like she did -- babied. This was a page turner, but the reader kind of figured out what was gonna happen in the end, judging by the picture on the cover. I know they say "don't judge a book by its cover," but in the picture she has a strong stance, she is bald which means she's going through chemotherapy, and in the book description she talks about kids that beat cancer. She says she's one of them. The ending is pretty obvious, and I'm not even ruining the ending here because the cover tells the ending. I think the purpose of the book isn't so much to make the reader wonder whether she beats it, as much as it's trying to show how she lives with cancer and fights it.
I've always had the idea that if I were ever on life support, I'd want to stay a vegetable. I'd never want anyone to "pull the plug," and the same goes for if I had cancer. I'd go through the treatment to fight it, not like what the kid in Deadline, by Chris Crutcher did. He didn't get treatment and just lived life to the fullest for his last year. That is not what I would do at all.
I recommend this book to any teen who is either struggling with cancer, doesn't fully understand it, or knows someone who has it or is fighting it. It's a little informative but not too much information all at once, and it's a more light-hearted side of the issue.
Catherine (Iowa)
Book review for Speak
Laurie Anderson’s Speak is a novel about a young girl who is lonely all because of the doing of one guy. She is now not speaking to anyone. This novel proves that you have to fight back and to never let someone control your life.
This novel starts with a girl named Melinda who is starting her 9th grade year. The view of this novel is first person as Melinda tells what is happening in her life. Also, she tells why everyone hates her and why she became mute. She had a strong friendship with Ivy and Rachel but that changed. Even though not one person wanted to be her friend a new student came to school, her name was Heather. She knows nothing about Melinda’s past and about her reputation. She was there for Melinda but later does not prove to be a good friend towards the end of the novel. Melinda also talks about this guy, Andy Evans. He is the cause the cause for all these problems.
At first, this book bored me. I did not care about Melinda describing her teachers and other students. Soon enough though there were other characters getting into the setting. The writing style was a little annoying when the author randomly capitalizes words. Also, I did not like when Melinda called characters by different names that she made up. I chose this book randomly for my popular fiction class. I think it was a good choice.
I did want to know more about this Andy guy. Also, I wanted to know what happened that was so bad that kept Melinda from having friends and talking. One last thing I wanted to know was why her parents did not do anything to help her and why they were not involved with Melinda. All of these things kept me turning the pages and reading.
I would change the ending to this novel a little. I would go further into Melinda’s sophomore year. I would go into whether or not she becomes friends with her old friends again and if her family starts to come back together. Overall, this was a good book and I give it a 4 out of 5 star rating. This book is more for high school students. It is not a good challenge for adults.
Angelica (Iowa)
Smiles to Go Review
Smiles to Go by Jerry Spinelli is a teen drama novel about a high school kid named Will Tuppence that has to overcome different tribulations. The theme of the story is that sometimes in order to get what you want, you need to just be patient and take life as it comes.
Will and his two friends, BT and Mi-Su, always have Monopoly night at either Mi-Su or Will’s house. Will has a little sister, Tabby, that sometimes has to tag along because his parents are out and can’t watch her. She’s always trying to pester him. The story is told in a first person point of view, by Will. The tone changes a lot in the story. It starts out with the reader wondering what in the world is going on, and Will is rude to his sister and never is truly happy with anything. In the end, he finally laughs out loud, which he hasn’t ever really done, and due to a big accident with his sister, he is always sweet to her from then on. The setting of Smiles to Go is in their town, and there are many conflicts. A few are that he wants to date Mi-Su, he can’t figure out how to get his sister off his back, and the world is disappearing proton by proton and no one can do anything about it.
I enjoyed this book because it was a real page turner. I read it in two days because I could never put it down. Whenever I had free time, I picked it up, even if I only had enough time to read a few pages.
BT was my favorite character because he was so funny and laid back. I didn’t like how Mi-Su was characterized because she was just a tease to BT and Will, and acted like a tramp most of the time. This is a realistic story because most little siblings try to pester their brothers and sisters, teens have problems with relationships, and also with friendships. Sometimes in the suspenseful parts, the author wouldn’t put any punctuation; it sped the scenes up a lot and made them more thrilling for the reader. The writing style was laid back, but the author didn’t sound uneducated like it’s very easy to do sometimes when writing like he did.
My brother is also a pest and I’m pretty mean to him sometimes. A lot of older siblings don’t understand their little brothers or sisters, and are maybe too hard on them. If people would stop and try to figure out why their sibling is acting that way, there could be more harmony in the home.
Anyone who enjoys reading about friendships and life at home, or even are a little curious about science, this is a good book to pick up because it’s a little dose of protons and friendships.
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