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Summary: Not So Good
Review: I have read several Spinelli books and have rated them all a four or above-except this one. This book builds up two characters only to stop the story once they are known to us and start a completely different story. This happens 3 times!!! Different characters, incomplete story. If he had started and finished with any one of these characters, it could have been a decent book. As it is, I just feel like I was left hanging and wasted time I could have spent on another book. Synopsis: Great author, just read his other books.
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Summary: Not So Good
Review: I have read several Spinelli books and have rated them all a four or above-except this one. This book builds up two characters only to stop the story once they are known to us and start a completely different story. This happens 3 times!!! Different characters, incomplete story. If he had started and finished with any one of these characters, it could have been a decent book. As it is, I just feel like I was left hanging and wasted time I could have spent on another book. Synopsis: Great author, just read his other books.
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Summary: Library Card
Review: Ignore the other reviews, because they are not accurate.1. The book was far from boring.
2. It wasn't hard to follow, there was definitely a plotline for each chapter.
3. I think it was great how each chapter ended, because it left you wanting more. To me, that is a brilliant way of writing. Keep in mind that these are mostly little kids who didn't like the book.
Silly kids.
They probably don't like it because it's about a library card.
:P
I think Jerry Spinelli is an awesome writer.
We even share the same last name, which is weird considering we're not related and that I live in Canada.
Anyways, he is one of my favourite authors, read and buy all his books, you won't regret it!
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Summary: The Library Card
Review: Jerry Spinelli is one of the best writers of young-adult fiction currently writing. His ideas connect not only with his main target audience, but with many adults as well. His writing style is full of vivid images and he uses unusual vocabulary words that force readers to grow in their language skills.
THE LIBRARY CARD is basically a novella written around four different stories tied together through a mysterious blue libary card. The first revolves around a boy named Mongoose and all the pranks he pulls and trouble he gets into with his friend named Weasel. The second focuses in on a girl named Brenda who is obsessed with televsion. The third story is about a homeless teenager named Sonseray who lives in a car with his uncle near a junkyard. The final story in the book is told as a first-person narrative from a girl named April and tells about moving to a Philadelphia mushroom farm and being hijacked on a bookmobile. Each story is unique in and of itself and the main characters have very little in common. However, each story illustrates the power of reading and how reading really can change a person's life.
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Summary: The Big Blue Library Card
Review: The Library Card In my second period L.A class my teacher Mrs. Donohue (Mrs. D short for Donohue) has us read 3 books per quarter. We have to do a critical review each quarter. Our first quarter, we have to do a critical review on the first book we read. I have to tell you some information about this book. So here we go. My first book I read was called The Library Card. The author is Jerry Spinelli he writes a lot of different books like Loser, Stargirl, Wringer, etc. The Library Card is a story. There are different sections of it. The Library Card falls into a mystery/adventure category. This book is about to boys that are bestfriends. They always sit on top of a tall building. They go to a market and steal quite a bit of candy and sell it, to buy spray paint cans. Then they go around and spray paint things. As they do this one of the boys find a blue card in his pocket. Then he realizes that it's a library card so he goes to the library and starts to check out books. Then the library card gets passed around to different people, and they use the library card. The books have strengths and weaknesses. The strength part of the book is that at the end of every chapter it leaves sentences that make you want to keep reading. This is called a narrative hook. The weakness in the book is that when the library card gets past around to different people it kind of goes into a different story so it's a little confusing. Jerry Spinelli is a great author to write books. He has adventure, drama, mystery, and so much more in his books. I think this book is a great book, if people have a chance they need to go to the library and check out The Library Card. This is a great book for readers from 5th to 8th grade because they can learn a lot from this book. They could learn that going to the library and checking out books is a great thing to do for your education.
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Summary: Library Card Review
Review: This book is very interesting, and the storyline is strange but good. There are 4 different characters, each affected by a library card. The first is a kid by the nickname of Mongoose, who happens to find the card. He uses it to learn about a certain bug which he found (he accidentally spray- painted over it while painting graffiti). He ends his chapter by becoming a book- addict and becoming obsessed with random things he learns in his readings.
The card is then carried over to Brianna, a TV- obsessed maniac with a life of "Teen Toons" and other shows. Her school holds a great TV turnoff- one week of no television. Will she survive? read to find out. there are also 2 other characters, which you should read about yourself. I would recommend this book to a 5th- 6th- or 7th- grader.
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Summary: Don't let the title turn you off!
Review: What sounds like a boring topic actually turns out to be a wonderful series of four individual stories, about four different young people whose lives are about to change because of the mysterious appearance of a blue plastic card. Mongoose lives in the inner city. With his good friend, Weasel, he writes graffiti all over the neighborhood. Weasel eventually drops out of school -- Mongoose has found a strange blue card that opens up a world he hadn't even dreamed of... Sonseray lives in a car, with his uncle. They travel from city to city, often leaving earlier than his uncle wants because of Sonseray's anger over the early loss of his mother. But that funny blue card shows up mysteriously, leading him to a nice cool library with more than central air conditioning. Brenda loves television. Her life evolves around her favorite shows -- until one week, when she has to participate in her school's Great TV Turnoff. How will she ever survive? That blue card pulls her so far away from the television, she may never return. And April Mendez, who loves to read. Stuck in a funny farm... when her family moves, she meets Nanette, a tough runaway teen who loses April's library card! Some strange blue card shows up -- April eventually gives it to Nanette and -- well, things really change. My almost 10 year old son and I read this. He is NOT an avid reader, which is why I am always reading WITH him, and he surprised me by begging to read the next story after we finished each one (he had to wait a whole day for each story!) Very different, high quality story that gives a message without being at all preachy.
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