Sanctuary

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Summary: Meg Strikes Again
Review: I saw the movie "Princess Diaries" and I decided to read the books. I read them quicker than I noticed and found myself wanted to read more Meg Cabot books. The next Princess Diaries book wasn't coming out for awhile (being that I only get the paperbacks) so I didn't know what to do. I ended up reading All-American Girl, Victoria and the Rogue, Nicola and the Viscount, the Mediator series and then I only had one thing left to read: The 1-800-WHERE-R-You series. So I picked up the books and was completely addicted (like I was by all her other books). Meg Cabot seems to have a way of making all her readers love every guy she makes up. I finished the whole series in no time at all and wishing (once again) I was the main character. By the end of the series I was wishing it were longer and there would be another one soon. But now I don't think so. But I can still wish can't I?

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Summary: Woah.......
Review: I want to agree with Silmarwen (earlier). This book, along with the other three books in the 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU series are soooooo good. I can't describe in words how good they are. You have to read the book to know what I'm talking about. Meg Cabot has a wonferful sence of humor and enfuses it into her characters making them all the mor loveable. I cant tell you how many times I laughed at Jess's sassy remarks. I loved this book and so will you. My advice? BUY IT!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Offensive!
Review: Jenny Carroll aka Meg Cabot's use of the term grits in this book is very offensive to southerners. She basically says in her latest book that people who eat grits are trashy, uneducated, racist scum. I cannot believe that she would put something like that in her book. If she had made a comment about a specific race, there would already be tons of reviews crying out against that but for whatever reason, Miss Cabot thinks it's okay to bash southerners. I think it'd disgusting and it's nothing but a form of hatred. Grits are a staple in any true southerners diet. They're eaten with breakfast, as a snack, with lunch or dinner. Blacks, whites, all races of people who grow up in the south eat grits. Rich or poor. It's a normal, everyday thing. It is not something only done by "crackers" which is what she basically says in her book. Also, her book insinuates that there is something wrong with the confederate flag. The flag does not stand for the kkk or any form of racism. The flag is about southern pride. The kkk did use the flag but that does not mean that everyone who flies the flag is racist. Terrorist groups attack innocent people in other countries and wave their flags but no one says that those flags are evil or racist. Cabot should have done some research on the confederate flag and grits before she used them in her horribly offensive book. I won't be buying or reading any more of her novels. She is nothing but a hateful person as far as I am concerned.

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Summary: i love meg cabot!!
Review: Jess is having Thanksgiving dinner with her family when their new across-the-street neighbor Dr.Thompkins comes over to ask if anyone knows where his son, Nate, is. Jess doesn't think anything is wrong and just continues with her plans to sneak out to Rob's house for a second Thanksgiving dinner at his place. While she is there, she has no idea what has happened to Nate, because she is so caught up with trying to get Rob to go out with her. However, on her way back from his house, while Rob's following behind her on his motorcycle, Jess encounters a police car roadblock. Jess knows something is wrong, and she finds out that Nate's body was left in a cornfield with a snake shaped mark carved into him. Jess goes about figuring out who did it. Soon after, Seth, a twelve year old, gets kidnapped on his thirteenth birthday right before his bar mitzva and his synagogue gets burned down. In her sleep Jess finds where Seth is but when she makes her anonymous phonecall she doesn't warn the police that the kidnappers are armed and a policeman is injured. Then Jess and Rob try to solve the mystery murder and kidnappings before things get too out of hand, while their relaionship grows.

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Summary: Sanctuary
Review: Jess knew she wasnt going to be able to keep her secret from the government forever. She just wished she had more time. But when her knew neighbor is found dead (Nate), Jess can help but feel guilty. But everyone assumes the murder was gang related, because the sign found on the guys chest, was all over town. But when a Jewish boy vanishes, Jess knows she has to do something, and that whoever took the boy killed Nate took the kid, too. Now Jess finds herself joining up with an enemy (Dr. Ktrantz) to fight an even bigger enemy. Will she be able to pull the whole thing off?

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Summary: Another Great Book By Carroll/Cabot!
Review: Jessica "Jess" Mastriani was never what anyone would call a normal girl, but ever since she was hit by lightning, she can find anyone if she sees a picture of them. Since getting this new talent, Jess' life was made miserable by the media and the military, so Jess pretended that she can't find anyone anymore and so is officially without powers. However, there are a few people that know she can find people and most of the people in town, as well as the FBI, are pretty sure that she is faking. So when Dr. Thompkins, the new African American doctor who just moved in across the street, swings by on Thanksgiving to ask Jess if she knows where Nate, his son is, Jess tries to explain that she doesn't do that anymore. Turns out that Dr. Thompkins has no idea what Jess can do and was just trying to find out if she had seen Nate, as in with her eyes while awake. Anyway, Jess is way too busy trying to sneak out of the house and over to Rob's house for her second Thanksgiving dinner to worry about where Nate is, until she is on her way home. While Rob follows her on his motorcycle, Jess is stopped by a roadblock on the road and immediately assumes it is because she doesn't have a driver's license. Okay, Jess is way old enough to drive and is a totally safe driver, she just likes to go a little fast. I mean, how bad is it to be going 80 in a 25 mph zone? Anyway, Jess soon finds out that the reason for the roadblock is they found Nate's body in a cornfield with a weird snake like tattoo carved on his chest. Unluckily for Jess, Dr. Krantz, a special agent who is in charge of an elite team of "specially-gifted" crime solvers is on the scene to once again question if Jess has really lost her talents.

Jess feels guilty about not being able to save Nate and she knows when Seth, a Jewish boy, is missing and the synagogue is set on fire that she has to do something. She dreams of Seth and knows where he is, calls in an anonymous tip, but doesn't tell the police that there are men with guns guarding Seth. One of the cops is in critical condition after being shot and Jess knows that it is her fault. She is determined to find Seth without getting anyone else involved - except for Rob, of course. Rob gets a bunch of bikers from Chick's Bar to join them on their insane quest to rescue Seth from a group of white supremacists who live out in the woods and Jess is off on another one of her wild adventures...

This is the 4th book in the "Lightning Girl" or 1-800-WHERE-R-U series and it is just as hilarious and entertaining as the first three. Of all of Cabot's/Carroll's series I would have to say that Jess is my favorite heroine and always makes me laugh while I am reading. She is very honest and just says what she is thinking or feeling and it is just so funny! Jess is always trying to get Rob to kiss her and to be her boyfriend, but he cannot date her because she is only 16 and he is 18 and on probation. The situations she gets Rob and herself into are very entertaining. I cannot recommend this series highly enough - all of the books by Cabot/Carroll are great, but this one is the best! I simply cannot wait for another book in this series - I really hope that she keeps writing more!

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Summary: Another Great Book By Carroll/Cabot!
Review: Jessica "Jess" Mastriani was never what anyone would call a normal girl, but ever since she was hit by lightning, she can find anyone if she sees a picture of them. Since getting this new talent, Jess' life was made miserable by the media and the military, so Jess pretended that she can't find anyone anymore and so is officially without powers. However, there are a few people that know she can find people and most of the people in town, as well as the FBI, are pretty sure that she is faking. So when Dr. Thompkins, the new African American doctor who just moved in across the street, swings by on Thanksgiving to ask Jess if she knows where Nate, his son is, Jess tries to explain that she doesn't do that anymore. Turns out that Dr. Thompkins has no idea what Jess can do and was just trying to find out if she had seen Nate, as in with her eyes while awake. Anyway, Jess is way too busy trying to sneak out of the house and over to Rob's house for her second Thanksgiving dinner to worry about where Nate is, until she is on her way home. While Rob follows her on his motorcycle, Jess is stopped by a roadblock on the road and immediately assumes it is because she doesn't have a driver's license. Okay, Jess is way old enough to drive and is a totally safe driver, she just likes to go a little fast. I mean, how bad is it to be going 80 in a 25 mph zone? Anyway, Jess soon finds out that the reason for the roadblock is they found Nate's body in a cornfield with a weird snake like tattoo carved on his chest. Unluckily for Jess, Dr. Krantz, a special agent who is in charge of an elite team of "specially-gifted" crime solvers is on the scene to once again question if Jess has really lost her talents.

Jess feels guilty about not being able to save Nate and she knows when Seth, a Jewish boy, is missing and the synagogue is set on fire that she has to do something. She dreams of Seth and knows where he is, calls in an anonymous tip, but doesn't tell the police that there are men with guns guarding Seth. One of the cops is in critical condition after being shot and Jess knows that it is her fault. She is determined to find Seth without getting anyone else involved - except for Rob, of course. Rob gets a bunch of bikers from Chick's Bar to join them on their insane quest to rescue Seth from a group of white supremacists who live out in the woods and Jess is off on another one of her wild adventures...

This is the 4th book in the "Lightning Girl" or 1-800-WHERE-R-U series and it is just as hilarious and entertaining as the first three. Of all of Cabot's/Carroll's series I would have to say that Jess is my favorite heroine and always makes me laugh while I am reading. She is very honest and just says what she is thinking or feeling and it is just so funny! Jess is always trying to get Rob to kiss her and to be her boyfriend, but he cannot date her because she is only 16 and he is 18 and on probation. The situations she gets Rob and herself into are very entertaining. I cannot recommend this series highly enough - all of the books by Cabot/Carroll are great, but this one is the best! I simply cannot wait for another book in this series - I really hope that she keeps writing more!

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Summary: Sanctuary
Review: Jessica Mastriani is a sixteen year old girl with the psychic ability to find literally anyone, compliments of a bolt of lightning, and an attitude problem. But amongst all of her problems, her "different" brother and her annoying mother, her brother who just dropped out of college to be with the girl he's had a crush on all through highschool and whom Jessica saved in the last book, the fact that the government of the United States is monitering her every move just waiting for her to make a mistake and reveal that she lied and still has her power, and her boyfriend who is on probation and 18 so refuses to actually be her boyfriend and whom she has yet to tell her parents about, when driving home from her boyfriends house after Thanksgiving dinner they come upon a riot of activity on a long back road.

It turns out that a body had been found. The body of her neighbor. The son of the only black family in town. With the help of her friends Jessica tries to uncover the truth. But suddenly a boy is kidnapped. Using her gift Jessica reveals to the police where he is, but not only do the kidnappers and the kidnappee get away but a cop is shot.

And so Jessica and her boyfriend, Rob, take it into their own hands. Some graffiti tips them off to an extremist group called the True Americans who hide in the woods, they hide because they refuses to pay taxes and yet help themselves to electricity and water. They won't pay taxes because they believe America must be purified, leaving only the white Christians, in other words, them.

They sneak into camp and then, when caught, proclaim that they wish to join them. Jessica is sent to the kitchen to start to cook while Rob is welcomed with open arms. When Jessica is ordered to deliver food to the men, not to eat any herself because the men must eat first, she sneaks out and finds the boy. Unfortunately they're caught, but all of Rob's friends once again come charging illegally to rescue. There is a great deal of fighting and the end is quite ironic.

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Summary: Sanctuary
Review: Jessica Mastriani is a sixteen year old girl with the psychic ability to find literally anyone, compliments of a bolt of lightning, and an attitude problem. But amongst all of her problems, her "different" brother and her annoying mother, her brother who just dropped out of college to be with the girl he's had a crush on all through highschool and whom Jessica saved in the last book, the fact that the government of the United States is monitering her every move just waiting for her to make a mistake and reveal that she lied and still has her power, and her boyfriend who is on probation and 18 so refuses to actually be her boyfriend and whom she has yet to tell her parents about, when driving home from her boyfriends house after Thanksgiving dinner they come upon a riot of activity on a long back road.

It turns out that a body had been found. The body of her neighbor. The son of the only black family in town. With the help of her friends Jessica tries to uncover the truth. But suddenly a boy is kidnapped. Using her gift Jessica reveals to the police where he is, but not only do the kidnappers and the kidnappee get away but a cop is shot.

And so Jessica and her boyfriend, Rob, take it into their own hands. Some graffiti tips them off to an extremist group called the True Americans who hide in the woods, they hide because they refuses to pay taxes and yet help themselves to electricity and water. They won't pay taxes because they believe America must be purified, leaving only the white Christians, in other words, them.

They sneak into camp and then, when caught, proclaim that they wish to join them. Jessica is sent to the kitchen to start to cook while Rob is welcomed with open arms. When Jessica is ordered to deliver food to the men, not to eat any herself because the men must eat first, she sneaks out and finds the boy. Unfortunately they're caught, but all of Rob's friends once again come charging illegally to rescue. There is a great deal of fighting and the end is quite ironic.

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Summary: Read it
Review: The 1-800 series is one little jewel!
Sanctuary is the forth book.
Things get complicated, but things work out in the end. That's one thing I love about Meg's books.

It all starts when Nate goes missing. Jess doesn't think anything of it at first, but on her way back from Rob's house - where she has Thanksgiving dinner - she finds Nate and not because of ther psych powers.
Then another boy goes missing... and things are just about to start!!!

Can't say much, it'll spoil the plot!

But Chick is one hell of a character worth to remember!!!