I loved this book and found the characters interesting enough to hook me into the story-line. I felt for Lia's struggles and the crossed out words didn't really bother me or put me off reading the book in any way. I am suffering from anorexia currently and I would like to warn readers that the bo...
I was recommended this book by my teacher. This is an excellent book that gives an accurate account of what it would be like to be a slave as a child here in America during the Revolutionary War. The story follows Isabel, as she is sold to a bad family with her sister, after being promised free...
If I had young readers in my home, I would definitely stock my shelves with this wonderful, historical set of books. Not only are the books interesting and entertaining, but my favorite part may be the appendixes where the author answers questions about her books, adding additional reading sugge...
The Impossible Knife of Memory is a book that includes love, hardships, death, and maturity. I recommend this book to people who are mature readers. The Impossible Life of Memory is about a teenage girl named Hayley Kincain who lived her life constantly on the road with her father, Andy,for five ...
The reason I decided to read this book was that practically every girl in my class was reading it. Based on what the girls were saying about the book, it pulled me in.Characters:The relationship between Lia and her mom had changed dramatically since her first "incident". After being sent to New S...
Honestly, I hated the book and loved it at the same time. At first, I felt quite horrible because my weight was nowhere near what hers was and I loathed that because I wanted to be that thin, feel as good as she seemed. But throughout the book I realized that she was slowly killing herself. Her b...
I thought this novel was awesome, but then again it’s written by Laurie Halse Anderson so I knew it was going to be great. It didn’t disappoint. The writing was very intense and rewarding, I felt like I was getting a treat as I read it. I enjoyed the characters, particularly Finn though I did fee...
My niece and nephew were both entertained by Zoe Fleefenbacher's hair. It did lots of cool stuff. It made her unique and interesting. It made school an adventure in mayhem and in learning. I think my fine-haired niece dreams of hair like Zoe's, but my nephew and I have a lot of hair that has ...
David is a great kid who can’t seem to do anything right. He loves to cut corners. David volunteers with Dr. Mac. David had an experience at Mr. Quinn’s ranch last year that made it so he couldn’t be around horses. In this book, he has a chance to redeem himself. He finds challenges along th...
I really liked the image of a flock of parrots living in the trees of an eastern town. It would be a great thing to see. Zoe tracks down their origin just as her mother returns to bring her home. Another good animal story from a great series!
This book is enlightening. It's so happy and sada. In this book, it's about this character named Maggie. Maggie is trying to save ten puppies who have been abused at a puppy mill and eight survived. Maggie wants to track the place but Gran has other ideas. Gran banned her from the clinic until sh...
January 9, 2013I'm now reading chapter five and page twenty nine of the book Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson. Fever 1793 is a huge attention grabber! It's sad, but full of happy moments! I'm just in the beginning, so I haven't got through a lot of the book yet, but what I have read is perfec...
I picked this book up on a whim-I'm a huge fan of Anderson's writing and I'm a horse fanatic, so I figured what could be better? From a horse standpoint, its actually one of the better equine stories out there. Horses in books are a pet peeve of mine because the majority of the time they are de...
12/17/10pg. 112jane found out that her beautiful dog yum yum has cancer and put him down since he was already 13. and that the cancer was untreatableand that if they did expencive surgury it would only give him a couple extra months to live. so yum yum was put to sleep. I know how it is to have a...
"THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL1. We are here to help you.2. You will have enough time to get to your class before the bell rings.3. The dress code will be enforced.4. No smoking is allowed on school grounds.5. Our football team will win the championship this year.6. We expect mo...
Vet Volunteers: Manatee BluesLaurie Halse AndersonBrenna, Maggie, and Zoe were on vacation with Maggie and Zoe's gran. She took Brenna and her grand kids to Florida, to help manatees. Gran's real name is J.J. Mackenzie, but the kids call her Dr. Mac. In the story, they go to an animal rescue cent...
So I haven't quite finished this book but I'll get there today, and I decided to just write my review now since I have a pretty good grasp on this book - over halfway through and the plot hasn't changed much from what was presented in the beginning, so I can pretty much guess how it's going to en...
Last night I dreamed that I was sitting in a gathering of people, waiting for my turn to get up and play my violin. There was a tall guy with dark hair speaking to the crowd, and a little fat blond girl sitting across the aisle from me who the tall guy called an idiot. This struck me wrong, so I ...