The Girl Who Owned A City

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Summary: a great book
Review: this is a relly great book! I encourage everyone to read it.it is about kids who are forced to survive without adults. Has some of my favorite things in it (murder, war, using the power of words).

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Summary: Good enough to be read in one sitting.
Review: Though I was in junior high long ago and usually read Orwell, Vonnegut, and the like, I immensely enjoy a good children's book once in a while. This book reminded me that even a ten year old with no one to boss her around can clearly distinguish between good and evil. The story is well thought-out and very realistic, considering the situation, of course. It teaches all readers of it to not buckle under fear and at the same time is incredibly entertaining.

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Summary: Excellent
Review: I read this book when I was in 6th grade and was captivated by it. It is a definite read for grades 6th through 8th.

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Summary: A book that leaves you thinking for YEARS.....
Review: A true masterpiece of modern novels, this book is a must read by everyone of all ages. O. T. Nelson jumps right into the story, leaving you to discover for yourself what really happened. The conclusion to the story leaves the reader with one word...WOW! Many books and novels of today's world discuss and explore the trials and tribulations of growing up with divorced, widowed, seperated parents. This book creates a world where the children are forced to grow up....without a living soul over the age of 12. Read on, and enjoy....(I also recomend this book for junior highschool teachers to use in class. )

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Summary: I really enjoyed this book... in sixth grade!
Review: I remember being captivated by this story, the plight of children, good and bad. NOt often is there a book that can captivate a reader, make them stage their own pretend battles... The Girl Who Owned a City did this for me. I loved the story and the plot, and the girl, LISA, is not the average stereotypical female. She is rough, tough, and ready to fight. A good read for those in 8th grade and under.

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Summary: An aggravating book, very poorly written, ridiculous outcome
Review: The number of five star reviews for this book is astounding. This book was assigned to my son's fifth grade class and I read it along with him. The characters are uniformly unpleasant. The author ignores any continuity or strategic problems by simply glossing over them and magically arriving at "the solution," like a TV chef pulling a pre-made pie out of the oven with a flourish and saying, "It will look like .... THIS!"

The ending of the book is the most egregious of each of the successively terrible chapters. Lisa's big, took-three-days-to-puzzle-this-out plan to retake the city/high school("It must be perfect, perfect! No mistakes!" she intones to herself ad nauseam.) is to....walk in by herself, carrying a gun. And then to top it all off, the leader of the opposition surrenders the city to her because she tells him he's "afraid." Huh? It seems like the author couldn't think of any reasonable way that Lisa could take back the city without a significant loss of life, so he/she came up with this lame, unsupportable conclusion.

I hated this book with a passion. I felt like I was reading someone's totalitarian manifesto badly disguised as a children's novel. Christians or other deists beware: there is strong atheistic content in this book.

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Summary: terrible book, would have given it 0 stars if possible
Review: This book, is possibly, the most, ...powerful book I have read. I do not know why people might say it was bad. However, to answer perhaps one of the mysteries, the effects of the plague might be that it deteriates the body inside out, like the effects of Ebola.
Some of the most interesting things are that, this plaque. Lisa, is perhaps the most resourceful lass I have ever read about, whether in fiction or non-fiction.
I would like people to know, that, people, kids like us, could learn from this book. It is very powerful, pull of meaning, and anticipation, and perhaps the most valued lesson of all-To appreciate what we have and to work for it.
I must say, two thumbs up to the book, and two thumns up to O. T. Nelson. Congrats for the outstanding book.
~Yati