This book was your run-of-the-mill high school novel. Judging the crap out of people for no real reason. Who uses their school newspaper column to speculate about their secret admirer? And in keeping with the stereotypical profile of Holly, she hates Valentine's Day and proceeds to spew the boring spiel about it being a commercial ploy that everyone has heard from bitter, single people. This has to be a joke - I mean, who in the world likes me that much? Making a mockery of me? That I understand. And the columns were not only stupid, but she used them like a freakin' diary: As far as her column goes.who the hell are we kidding? Maybe 10% of the book focused on Holly's role with the whole school newspaper thing. Every other sentence ended in an exclamation point, giving me the impression that she screamed all the time. Her dialogue wasn't the least bit believable. It was so impossible to have sympathy for her as she complained about going to Las Vegas for Christmas and whined about being given money to buy her own Christmas presents. Holly fulfills every aspect of the teenage girl stereotype. She thinks she knows everything, everyone else is so lame, her parents are the worst people to ever undertake the task of parenting, and high school totally sucks. Holly is a stuck-up, whiny, stereotypical teenage brat.
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I'm sure there is a lot of good information in this book, but it's impossible to know which are real issues and which are misrepresented to exaggerate the narrative. The result, for this curious reader anyway, is that I don't have faith that what Perez presents is factually or summarily true. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to know prima fascia which is which. If you do this, you'll find the narrative summary is sometimes right on, sometimes misleading, and sometimes just plain wrong. If you read/listen to this book with genuine curiosity, you’ll want to check into some of the data that are presented. Some fraction of the statistics and studies presented in this book are either misrepresented, misinterpreted, or flat out wrong, and the fraction is significant. This won't be a popular review, but here goes. 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No part of this book may be used, reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher, except where permitted by law, or in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.Ĭhapter Sixteen - The Joan of Arc InstituteĬhapter Twenty-Five - Here’s Lookin’ at You, KidĬhapter Twenty-Seven - Crazy Little Thing Called LoveĬhapter Twenty-Eight - Nothing Gold Can StayĬhapter Twenty-Nine - Don’t Wanna Miss a ThingĬhapter Thirty - The Collector’s Daughter Continually striving to perfect his technique, which leads him to a unique style of fighting with two swords simultaneously, he travels far and wide, challenging fighters of many disciplines, taking nature to be his ultimate and severest teacher and undergoing the rigorous training of those who follow the Way. 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The follow-up to the #1 bestseller The Winter Palace-perfect for the readers of Hilary Mantel and Alison Weir. Some people don’t want a girl on the team. Mikayla is a wrestler when you grow up in a house full of brothers who are die-hard mat heads, it's in your DNA. Laura other novels for children include Takedown, selected by Junior Library Guild and PJ Our Way, and the ALA’s Amelia Bloomer Project List, and A Place at the Table, co-written with author/activist Saadia Faruqi, (Clarion, 2020). Kindle 6.99 Rate this book Takedown Laura Shovan 4.25 307 ratings85 reviews You’re only as good as your partner. The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, Laura’s novel-in-verse for children, won the Cybils Award for poetry, was an NCTE Notable Verse Novel, a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, and was included on the ILA-CBC Children’s Choice Reading List, among other honors. Takedown is written by Laura Shovan and published by Wendy Lamb Books. Laura edited Life in Me Like Grass on Fire: Love Poems for the Maryland Writers Association and co-edited Voices Fly: An Anthology of Exercises and Poems from the Maryland State Arts Council Artists-in-Residence Program, for which she is a longtime teacher. Discover what happens when one girl wants to break barriers in a sport dominated by boys in this exciting and thoughtful novel by the author of The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary. Her chapbook, Mountain, Log, Salt and Stone, won the inaugural Harriss Poetry Prize and her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. Laura Shovan Laura Shovan has over 20 years of experience as an educator, and poet-in-the-schools. |