Nothing But The Truth: A Documentary Novel

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Summary: Why Was This A Newbury Honour Book?
Review: A juvenile novel, i think that is the audience Avi generally writes for, of school, grade nine, to be precise, and the way in which one event can be turned and twisted, even by people generally trying to be honest and accurate, until anything but the truth is the result. The boy, Philip Malloy, who is at the centre of the story, is an arrogant, lazy, self-considered humorous, ninth-grader who wants to do what he wants to do on his own terms and at his own speed. Since he does not try, he is failing English, and therefore cannot be a part of the track team ~ his true love. Once he learns that it annoys his homeroom teacher, also his English teacher, he hums along with the Star-Spangled Banner as it is played each morning. After a couple of days and warnings, Philip is suspended for causing a disturbance in class. Naturally, he twists the truth, as do his parents, a potential school board member, the press and the administration, all for their own purposes; in the end, Philip becomes a minor celebrity for being suspended for singing the American national anthem. The one person who is most poorly treated is the teacher, the one person who tried to help the boy, the one person who comes closest to telling the truth the whole time. The moral, unfortunately, of the tale seems to be that one must tell one's own version of the truth first, loudest, and most continually to be sure of getting what one wants. A rather sad, annoying ~ or worse ~ meaning for a young adult to be given in an otherwise well written novel.

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Summary: answer...
Review: Hey, I DO care about a kid that was supended for singing. I mean, what if he was innocent. And just for your information! The story have a plotline. It has main chaacters, settings, themes, and plotlines. You just probably just didn't get the story very well. I like the book very much.... Because in order to understand the ending, you pretty much have to get really involved with the story itself. I think that it was pretty smart of AVI to do such a ending. I mean would you think of such a ending? Something that would actually make you think about the story and about what it means.... And if you do have the chance everyone else! Read the book!

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Summary: Class review for Mrs. Stanberry's progect!
Review: We read this book in class. I didn't like it a whole lot but it was pretty good. It's written in documents...so it's kinda hard to understand but you'll get the hang of it!
This book is about a high school boy ,Philip Malloy, who wants to try out for the track team but...he gets a D from his english teacher, Ms. Narwin,. This D doesn't excactly help how much he likes her. Well there's kinda a school rule that you have to have all passing grades to tryout for track and a D isn't excactly passing. Now is it? So his chances of getting on the team's shattered! Well a lot of people try to give him advice but (There's always a but!) he doesn't take that advice. And getting moved into her for homeroom doesn't help a thing! So he just bugs her and bugs her by humming the "Star Spangled Banner" and not listeneing to her when she tells him to stop. So the next stop is the principal's office! Philip goes the first time and is told to stop. When the next day he does it again he again is sent to the principal's office. Where he is told that he has a chance to apolagize or be suspended...and guess what he chooses! That's right...get suspended! So when he gets suspended for being "patriotic" and "singing" the "Star Spangled Banner". It gets turned into a huge deal after he doesn't tell his parents the whole truth. It turns into a Nation wide deal! This is a prime example of how a molehill can get turned into a mountain!

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Summary: My book review
Review: We read this book in school and I found it really good. It's abouta boy who gets in trouble w/ his English teacher when she gives him a D. And he really loves track and wants on the team. But there's sorta a rule that says you must be passing all your classes before you can get on the team. And a D isn't exactly passing. So he trys and trys to bug Ms. Narwin, His English teacher, till she kicks him out of the class to the principal's office for singing the "Star Spangled Banner" w/ the audio cassete. Finnaly he goes to the office so many times he gets suspended for singing. And his parents and him turn it into a huge deal involving politics, teachers, and students from all over the country. But see his parents are on his side and see he's really not telling the whole truth and he can't help it before it's blown out of proportion.
It's just a little hard to read but you get used to it.
I recommend it for classroom reading material.

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Summary: The REAL truth:
Review: This was a outrageously bad book. No offense to Avi, she has some other really great books-but this one? I am suprised it was even published! I mean who cares about a kid was suspended for singing? This story has NO plotline whatsoever!!! And the ending isn't even a real ending! If you have the Chance NEVER read the book read HARRY POTTER! (now that is a good story)

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Summary: a good book writen by avi
Review: I really like this book because it falls in my age level and it helps me understand better. I think this should be a book read in all classrooms. It is a great book and i dont think that old adult would like it as much as teens. If a teacher is reading my respones i highly recommened that you get this book in your class room. The book may start off slow, but dont they all, but it is a really good book, about a teen and problems he is haveing in school and sports.

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Summary: cool book by avi
Review: our 9th grade english class had to read this book for school. i thought it was a fairly good book. the set up for the book was very interesting and let you see all the sides of the story. it had an interesting conflict and i finished it within a short time of starting it.

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Summary: A Good Story But Something Confusing
Review: A boy named Philip Malloy transported to Miss Narwin's homeroom class. The problem is that he hates her, because no one understands what she is reading to the class. So in the morning, he starts to hum along the "Star-Spangled Banner", which is not appropiate in the school. Then it starts to be reported in the radio. The thing I didn't understand was that the people who were involved in it kept on talking about the problem so it made it even worse, but this still is a good book so start reading it!

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Summary: A Very Bad Book by Avi
Review: I think that this book is very bad. There is no real plotline, and what there is of one is piontless. I mean singing a long to the star spangled banner. Who cares? It seems to me that the book goes too slow and it's not very exciting.

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Summary: A Great Novel by Avi
Review: Very suspenseful, never realizing what will happen next. Wonderfully written. An awesome beginning, middle and end. Leaves you with suspicion and excitement the whole way through. Phillip was so unpredictable. He was ok and nice at one time, then a second later he was not. One day on the bus he was fine when Alison tried to sit with Philip, the next day he was in a bad mood. A complete description of teenage issues. Philip goes from at least halfway popular to hated all around the school for being mean to Miss Narwin. He was trying to get out of her classes and went too far. A very ironic novel if you think about it. Philip wants to get out of Miss Narwin's class when he then ends up in different school with no track and no Alison. It's amazingly well written a lot better then I thought it would Be. It's one of Avi's best. It was an outstanding book, my friends and I really enjoyed reading it.