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Summary: This powerful and emotional book shows one boy's struggle.
Review: Avi Wortis Nothing But the Truth This book is realistic fiction. It is a very powerful and emotional book about a boy struggling through his depressed adolescent years. His name is Phillip Malloy. Every day at Phillip's school the Star Spangled Banner plays. All the students stand at attention being perfectly silent. One day Phillip decides to hum along. He calls it patriotic. His teacher calls it a disturbance. He is sent to the principal and told to stop. The next day he continues to hum. He again goes to the principal. His homeroom is changed. He still cannot hum. He tells his parents. A reporter is there and thinks it is a big deal. She interviews him. The story is published and blown out of proportion. Within weeks, it is the biggest story in the nation. All in all I give it four stars. It was a great book up to the very last sentence. I completely recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading. Once you start you will not be able to put it down.
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Summary: One thing
Review: One thing that really bugged me was how the people talked. Come on! Everyone spoke in sentence fragments. Also, being in the eighth grade, I know for a fact that NO fourteen-year old boys talk like that. The fragments get REALLY annoying!
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Summary: The book is a total farce, I really expected more.
Review: The book itself was okay, but Avi is a really great author and WOLF RIDER one of Avi's other books was mor of a high paced story. The story was a total farce it could happen in the real world today but it is very unlikely that it would. I wish that the plot was like "oh wow" and I had to stay up night with it, but it did takke me about three days to read the whole thing, because there are better books and more revies that I do have to read and do.
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Summary: Great Book, AVI Did Great!!
Review: This book has all the qualities of being an an award winner, which it was. It's unique way of writing (format) made it interesting and fun to read. This book is deffinitely one of the best one's by Avi and he is probably very happy for his work and time he put into this book. This book is a must read and must buy. I hope Avi will keep writing books as great as this or even better.
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Summary: A novel approach to fiction
Review: I read this book as a young teen and again as an adult and was equally impressed both times. Avi's approach to writing has always impressed and entertained me. This book is no exception. Using the multimedia approach to storytelling moves this book along and gives you all sides of the story.
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Summary: It was all right
Review: It was pretty good except I thought it should have had a better ending where the teacher and Phillip apologize to each other.
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Summary: A boy gets in trouble for singing the national anthem.
Review: Ninth grader Philip Malloy hums along with the national anthem, in his home room. Miss Narwin (his home room teacher) sends him to the assisant principal, Mr. Palleni, because a school rule says to have respectful silent attention. When he gets to Mr. Palleni's office, he gives Philip a fair warning to stop humming. During the next day, he hums again, but this time he is suspended from school for the rest of Friday and Monday. Philip gets really mad and will not apologize no matter what. Everyone keeps bugging him about it, and won't leave him alone no matter how hard he tries. Philip talks with his neighbor, Mr. Griffen (who is running for school board) and his father. Mr. Griffen gives a speech to tell everyone what happened at the school board meeting. I think this book was okay, because it kept you wanting to read more. The book also dragged on and on like you would never get done. I really encourage people to read it because it was very interesting, funny, and relaxing. If you would like to read this fascinating book you can check it out at your local library.
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Summary: I would recomend this book to everyone because...
Review: I think Avi's Nothing But The Truth was a terrific book. I would recomend it to poeple of all ages. Avi has a special way of describing his characters in his books. He uses dialogue from other characters to describe things and some describing also comes from diary entries made by "Philip Malloy". I think Avi could've done more with Philip in terms of making a better story. I totally dislike the way he chose to do the very last sentence! The whole book is based on the fact that Philip gets in troble for singing the national anthem. The last sentence, Philip says "I don't know the words" when asked to recite the national anthem at his new school. This ending was a big put down to me after a terrific book!
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Summary: Absolutely Awesome
Review: I recommended this book to everyone of my friends. The most attractive thing about this book is it's unusual formatting. The plot I thought was extremely funny. I could totally relate to the main characters and Phillps parents as well, because mine are the same way. Overall, this was a stupendous book and a good thing too, considering it is my first AVI. Fan 4 Life.
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Summary: Nothing But the Truth--one of the worst books I've ever read
Review: It stunk. It's about this kid named Philip Malloy. This kid hates his English teacher/Homeroom teacher, Miss Narwin. He tries to get transferred out of her classes by annoying her--he loudly and disrespectfully hums to the playing of The Star Spangled Banner...a tradition of his school. It is played every morning and students are required to stand silently and respectfully. Philip tells this to his parents, which then in turn tell the public of this incident...trying to prove that Philip was only being "a good american patriot". Philip is now this american "hero" and Miss Narwin is in dumpsville. Even though Philip is lying through his teeth just to get of of Narwin's classes. In the end, Philip goes to a new school, and Miss Narwin quits work. At the end I was snoring. I think it was the worst book I've read in a long time.
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