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Summary: This is a Good Book!
Review: I didn't read The Pinballs when I was a kid but I do remember watching the movie on TV sometime in the 70's and I believe it was shown on TV as one of those ABC after school specials and from what I remember the movie was very good. I did manage to read the book a couple of years ago when I read my nephew's book and I must say that I really liked it and felt bad for Carlie, Harvey and Thomas J for all the rough times they went through and as I recall Carlie had an abusive step-father and Harvey had the alcoholic father who hit him with the car and broke his legs and Thomas J had no family except two little old ladies who were too old to take care of him any longer and they wound up in nursing homes so Carlie, Harvey and Thomas J wind up in a foster home together and form a bond. This is a really good book and I highly recommend it to anyone ages 10 and up.
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Summary: I liked This Book! The Movie was Good Too!
Review: I read The Pinballs several years ago and I thought it was a really good book. It is about three children in a foster home who have all had a rough life. They are two boys Thomas J. and Harvey and a girl named Carlie and I highly recommend this book. BTW: Sometime in the mid 70's this book was turned into a movie, it was part of The ABC After School Specials series and starred Kristy McNichol as Carlie and it is coming out on DVD in boxsets of The Afternoon Specials and I will definitely be buying it!
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Summary: Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down
Review: In the book we give the character, Carlie two thumbs up. The story is about three children living in a foster home with Mr. and Ms. Mason. Carlie cares about other people, and helps around the house. We like Carlie because she tried to help Harvey by saying, " You know, I can be a big help when there's a fight." Other kids should read about this character, because they could learn that they should care about people even though they dislike them.
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Summary: GREAT READ!!!
Review: PINBALLS by BETSY BYARS is a good read for a 4TH or 5TH graders.
Charlie, Harvey and Thomas are young people who live in a foster home. Each person has different reasons for being placed in foster home.
This book is a must read. Charlie and Thomas felt sad for Harvey who was in the hospital. To help out they brought Harvey a puppy. Harvey was in the hospital and lonely. These three kids survive together in the foster home. They realize they need eachother.
What an interesting person Betsey Byars is. She parks her plane in the bottom floor of her house. She won a Newberry Medal for her book Summer of the Swans. If you want to know what happens in the end you'll have to read the book.
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Summary: 2 Thumbs Up and 2 Toes Up too!
Review: The "Pinballs" is a wonderful book. It brings laughter, tears, and joy to the reader. Carlie, Thomas J., and Harvey - all are foster children sent to a foster home. Carlie was abused, Harvey's dad ran over his legs, and Thomas J. lived with older twins until they broke there hips. My student teacher read this book to me and the class in the fourth grade. We had activies to do with the book. This book is one of my favorites and will always be my favorite! If you like happy, sad, and fun moments, this book is for you! Please take my word for it! You will become keen to this book forever and ever and ever!
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Summary: Ashtonishing
Review: The Pinballs is a book about three children who are sent to a foster home. The three children are Carlie, Harvey, and Thomas J. Carlie is a fourteen-year-old girl who is at the foster home because her stepfathers abused her. Harvey is a thirteen-year-old boy who is at a foster home because his father had drinking problem and he couldn't take care of Harvey. Thomas J. is an eight year old boy who is at the foster home because when he was two his natal parents left him at the door step of the eighty-two year old Benson twins and they broke their hips walking down a path to their house and they couldn't care for him. So those three children were sent the Mason Foster Home. At first Carlie doesn't like anybody in the house, Harvey really doesn't communicate and Thomas J. talks too loud. What will happen to Carlie? What will happen to Harvey? What will happen to Thomas J.? Find out in The Pinballs by Betsy Byars.
I think the Pinballs was very good because most of the characters were dynamic. Betsy Byars painted a vivid picture of the characters. There is a very big lesson that taught in this book and you will have to read this book to find out. I would suggest this to any person above the age of ten.
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Summary: The Pinballs
Review: The Pinballs is a powerful look at how living in a foster home may change your life. The setting takes place in the Mason's foster home during the summer. The characters are believible. They are Carlie, Harvey, and Thomas J. All three characters want to go gome, however their parents are in a conflict. The author of this novel is Betsy Byars. She writes in a lively way. The aurthor has great descriptive images and is a great writer of non-fiction stories.Carlie is 13 years old, Harvy 11 years old, and Thomas J. is 8 years old. They all have certain problems. One of those three problems is that Harvey's dad abused him. He was an alcholholic and Harvey is now paralized. Thomas J., never got to know his biologicial parents. Thomas J's mother left him at he door step of the Benson's twins. Carlies's stepfather also abused her. He hit her, punched her, and did everything to hurt her. How can these three children go beyond their problems? Read this novel The Pinballs.
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Summary: Bad
Review: The Pinballs is a typical KIDS book. Those books teachers tells to read for English or Reading. Those typical books where in the end u learn a lesson.
This book is not bad, not good. it was really intersting and wasn't boring as i thought it would be. But i wouldn't say it's a page turner like other books i've read. how ever it wasn't bad and the end was really cool.
It's about 3 froster childern, each with their own problems.but in the end they were all happy. THAT kind of book. I recommend it to school teachers for 5th or 6th graders or just people who are searcing for a good book to read.
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Summary: Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down
Review: This delightful treasure was my first book that I ever read when I was in first grade ( in 1977 I think )from cover to cover. Being adopted I related to the authors messege of abondment buy my birth parents that I felt at the time.
I am know 33 years of age now , and over the time span of 26 years reading over ( I would guess ) 300 books that I have read for pleasure. This one will always be my favorite. Because it opend my mind to the wonders of books that I still love today
I would recomend this to any child for their first read especailly if the child is a foster child or adopted.
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Summary: This book was a winner with us!
Review: We just finished reading The Pinballs in our fourth-grade classroom. Most of us thought it was a great book. We felt that we learned a lot about what it's like for someone to have to leave his or her family and go to a foster home for a while. We were interested in how Carlie changes. At the beginning she is sharp-tongued with everyone and she's angry all the time. Later on, she begins to trust and really care about the other foster kids and Mr. and Mrs. Mason, the foster parents. Carlie is not the only one who changes. We saw that Harvey reaches a deeper understanding of his father. Instead of just hating him for running over his legs with his car, he becomes more understanding after realizing that his mother never answered any of his letters (his mother ran away to join a commune). We liked what Carlie and Thomas J did at the end of the book to bring Harvey out of his depression in the hospital. We're not going to say what that is, though, because we want everyone who reads this review to read the book.
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