Rate the book: 6
17 year-old Mia's life is changed forever when a terrible car accident faces her with a difficult choice: to stay or go. The ideas behind this heart-wrenching story are original and inspired. However, this novel felt more like 196 pages of pure sadness which took away from the book.
This is an extremely well written story but one I would not recommend to the faint-hearted.
If you decide to follow Mia on this moving journey, make sure you've got tissues at hand.
----reviewed by lily
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Books - Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
Rate the book: 10
By the same author as "Looking For Alibrandi", is another great book about a teens life. Even though the main character, Francesca is Italian (like in Looking For Alibrandi), this book focuses moreso on the troubles she faces when she is sent to a school that has only just become co-ed, leaving her friends from her old school behind.This book is also about boy troubles rather than trouble because of her ethnicity. A great read for those who love romance/friend/family type books.
----reviewed by sarah
By the same author as "Looking For Alibrandi", is another great book about a teens life. Even though the main character, Francesca is Italian (like in Looking For Alibrandi), this book focuses moreso on the troubles she faces when she is sent to a school that has only just become co-ed, leaving her friends from her old school behind.This book is also about boy troubles rather than trouble because of her ethnicity. A great read for those who love romance/friend/family type books.
----reviewed by sarah
Monday, September 01, 2008
Books - Marty's Shadow by John Heffernan
Rate the book: 10
Bigotry and racism are harsh realities in Marty's world. Families and their secrets destroy young lives, but Marty fights his family shadows....absolute page turner!
----reviewed by rowanne
Bigotry and racism are harsh realities in Marty's world. Families and their secrets destroy young lives, but Marty fights his family shadows....absolute page turner!
----reviewed by rowanne
Friday, December 28, 2007
Books - The Black Dress Mary MacKillop’s Early Years by Pamela Freeman
Pamela Freeman appears to have taken real characters and places from what is known about Mary MacKillop and placed them into a fictional story about what Mary MacKillop’s life was like before she became a nun. As a result this book is interesting and an enjoyable read.The Black Dress is written with Mary MacKillop looking back on the influences of her life, particularly focusing on her childhood. Pamela Freeman presents Mary MacKillop as a girl who is trying to do the right things by her parents, church and the community as taught to her by her parents yet at the same time she is learning about the world in which she will live as an adult, both the good and the bad. Pamela Freeman highlights the struggle between families, communities, those who have money and those who don’t within the context of Australia from 1845-1861 with other dates until 1909. Through highlighting this struggle Pamela Freeman shows the impact of what happened on Mary MacKillop’s life and therefore, her resulting choices with her life.
---- reviewed by Sarah
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