by Catherine Ryan Hyde, Enid Graham, Leland Gannt, Anne Pitoniak
This movie makes me cry, every time!
This movie makes me cry, every time!
Ugh. I have a problem with these overly-corny "the innocent little child softens the hearts of all the mean people" kind of books. It was like a slightly more modern, more depressing version of Pollyanna (which I also hated...), only with a boy of course.I actually liked the basic idea; it could hav...
It's an amazing story, handled with enough grace to make it seem realistic, even in this cynical world of ours. Because really, how difficult is it to pay it forward to just three people?Few books have made me cry this much. The tears were literally running down my cheeks while reading the last few ...
I check off "books that made me cry" for any book that will bring a lump to my throat, even if there are no actual tears. This is one book, and the only book at that, that made me actually sob, put the book down and have a good cry, before picking it up to carry on reading. I've never found anothe...
While I like the idea of a social studies assignment to do something good, the whole story is just a little too smug for my taste.
Boy has project to make world a better place. A little forced.
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