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Summary: This book is worth all the stars in the sky! -
Review: I just finished reading this book, and it is absolutely awesome. It's funny, sad, shocking, and has spunk. One of the best features about this book is that when something happens, Julianna has a point of view and Bryce does too. Juilianna has liked Bryce since the 2nd grade. And she has freaked him out. He did everything he could to avoid her. In junior high she lost interest in him, but he started liking her! I'm not saying more, you have to read it!
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Summary: Awesome Book!
Review: I loved this book! It was really cool to get both points of view from the main characters in the book. Normally in books like that I don't like them a lot but Wendelin Van Draanen wrote this extremly well. I would give this 500 stars but you can only give 5. I would reccomend this book to anyone how is looking for a cute, romance story.
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Summary: Absolutely engaging
Review: I am stunned by how much I enjoyed this book. Even now that I've put it away on the shelf, I keep thinking about it and realizing something new and wonderful about it that I hadn't quite seen before. The story is told by two distinct voices and feels absolutely authentic to me. Learning how each of the narrators sees the same events differently was inspiring - as a school counselor, I want more than anything to help my students see that sometimes our interpretation or perception of a situation is not at all what was intended! This book does that perfectly without being too pushy or in-your-face about it. Subtle and heartwarming, touching yet brilliantly clever (I often laughed out loud and also found myself with teary eyes a few times, sometimes simultaneously)! I loved the characters; I felt I had a vivid picture of everyone in my head without the author having to use three paragraphs to describe each person involved in the story. The people were described through their words, their actions, their thoughts. Excellent book! Entertaining, educational, insightful, inspiring, and fun! A must read for young adults and not-so-young adults alike!
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Summary: good because
Review: i think this book is good because we can indentify with both juli and bryce. like juli we a pine away for someone who didnt return our feelings. like bryce we all had people who annoy us. i really like the stroy and ulike the other reviewrs said the dual tell in of the same event is not boring that waht a makes it itresting.
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Summary: A disgrace to literature, maybe not that bad
Review: I believed this book [stunk] beyond all belief. This book isn't really a story, it's a series of events told from two different points of view. After a while, you get kinda bored with reading the same story but told differenty. This book is sorta like those books that are written to teach a lesson. And I'd rather read a good Harry Potter book anyday.
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Summary: Gotta Read it!
Review: To start, it's fun. You see both points of veiw, Juli's and Bryces's. Second, It makes it you think. You know the saying "It's not what's on the outside but what inside." But, as most know that isn't very easy to do. Bryce, just looks at her yard, and how she acts so passionatly. Juli, is entranced by his beutiful blue eyes. But as they relize it's on the inside, they change their veiws compleatly. With a suprise ending, you CAN'T miss this one!
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Summary: Uh...
Review: i really didn't think this book was all that great. I thought that the children were really naive. Really not that bad but I really thought it was a little sappy...
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Summary: Amazing book
Review: ...I picked up the book and read its back cover -- it seemed like fluffy romance to me. I was about to put it back when I realised that the author was Wendelin Van Draanen. Being a huge Sammy Keyes fan, I decided that even if it WAS fluff, it would be worth a read. And so I bought it.It took me a chapter or two to get into it, but by the time I finished it (less than two days, if I remember correctly -- I couldn't put it down) I'd fallen in love with Bryce and Juli, Bryce's grandfather Chet, Juli's father, even Juli's brothers. The book has a little romance in it, but not as much as the book's cover made it out to be. It is not a romance by any means; instead, it is a book about growing up -- but the concept is presented in a modern, real, noncondescending way. The book is downright funny many times, but poignant and serious at others. The chapter when Juli visits her uncle made an impression on me in particular, as well as the chapter when Bryce finally begins to "see" people -- his father, his grandfather, and at last, Juli. Though the Sammy Keyes books are well-written, Ms. Van Draanen has absolutely proved (to me, at least) that she is much more than a writer who merely entertains. It takes a very talented writer to cause the reader to become involved in the story, to care about the characters. It takes a gifted writer to involve the reader in the story and characters, to show the change the characters go through in the story, and to really make the reader -think-. Ms. Van Draanen is a gifted writer. Bryce's change is not only touching, but believable; Juli is not the know-it-all she seems to be, but a deep and beautiful young woman. And the story makes the reader question his or her own way of living -- a "fakeness" that I have been seeing in people so much more acutely as I grow up. I cannot recommend this book enough. Wonderful job, Ms. Van Draanen, on a truly wonderful book.
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Summary: Mars and Venus
Review: First we hear Bryce tell us about the day he met Juli and then we hear Juli's memory of the day she met Bryce. After you have read both chapters you wonder if they are even talking about the same event. Obviously, we are from Mars and Venus. This book tells the story of Bryce and Juli and how they see, don't see and finally start to see each other as they really are. Funny and endearing. I really loved reading this book. I am a middle school teacher, and think it would be a great tool to discuss points of view, how they change a story, and how and why an author chooses a certain narrator. The Sammy Keyes series by this same author are awesome too.
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Summary: Crazy with Style
Review: Flipped, your not so average book, is one manuscript that you should not judge by it's eccentric cover. The aforementioned novel is all about the relationship between Bryce Loskis and Julianna Baker, neighbors since the age of seven years old.
As of the very first day he met Juli, Bryce thought she was a wild child, know it all. Since the very first day she met Bryce, Juli was infatuated with him and would do anything to stand out in his eyes. And so the volume goes on. While the book may seem drawn out, it is due to Draanen's willingness to show both Juli and Bryce's point of view on every event.
I am sure that all who choose to read this book will find enjoyment and pleasure in doing so. Victoria
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