Sunday, December 26, 2010

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Review #2: If I Stay

Title: If I stay
Author: Gayle Forman
Rating: 2/5 (I didn't like it)
Approximate Age Range: 14+
Genre: Realistic Fiction
*Price: $8.99
*Number of Pages: 234 (Plus bonus material)
*=New Feature
My Writen Review: I usually don't dislike books...but I was not a fan of this one at all.
Mia had a decent life, a nice family, two good friends, a promising future...But that all changed on the family's car ride to the grandparents for lunch on a snow day. Here whole family has gotten into an extremely fatal car accident and Mia's parents and little brother, Teddy, are all dead. But Mia is still alive, but she is in a coma. Mia must choose weather to live or die. This whole book has constant memory flashbacks from when Mia was 5, or 15, which makes this book confusing. It got annoying and I wouldn't recommend this book. I chose to read this because it is very popular, and I indeed thought I WOULD like it, but I was wrong. This book was a big disapointment. As for the ending, I wont spoil it...but I just want to let you know, it is VERY confusing. So confusing, that I had to search on google weather she chose to live or die. There was an answer...but I was also told that there will be a sequel in 2011. I might read it, but I am not sure, seeing as I didn't like this one.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Review #1: Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree

Title: Emma-Jean Lazurus Fell Out of a Tree
Author: Lauren Tarshis
Rating (Out of 5 Stars): 4/5 (I really liked it)
Approximate Age Range: 8-12
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Written Review: Emma-Jean is a 7th grade girl, and has always been described as... a little, well, strange, weird, out of the ordinary, etc.
She doesn't have many friends, actually no friends in school at least, but she appreciates her few friends she has like, Henri (her parrot), and Vikram Adwani (her grown up friend from India who rents a room in Emma's home and cooks amazing dishes from India). Emma Jean lives with her mom, (and Vikram), her dad had died 2 years ago and was a beyond intelligent professor at the university. Emma-Jean loved her father with all her heart and still dearly misses him. The whole story starts out on one normal school day when Emma finds Colleen Pomerantz in the batroom crying. Emma and Colleen establish some what of a friendship and  she helps Colleen cope with the evil Laura who is trying to steal Kaitlyn, Colleens best friend, by taking Colleens place on the annual ski trip Kaitlyns family and Colleen go on every year. But when Emma-Jean tires to help Colleen out,  it doesn't all end in a smooth way, Emma-Jean comes up with an intelligent, yet devious, plan that may just get the two expelled. This is a heart-felt book of friendship, family, love, and mystery. It is a fast paced book that you will want to keep on reading.Find out what they have done, and how Emma-Jean falls out of a tree by reading this book!