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There are short stories from 15 different authors and each story is based on something that actually happened to each author.Two of my favorite authors, Joan Lowery Nixon and Jay Bennett, contributed stories to this collection. Their stories were quite good, but actually most of the stories in this ...
I'm really torn about how to rate this book. Many a time, the writing would pull me out, but just as often, the characters and story sucked me right back in. This tale of a young Pakistani girl starting to navigate what it means, in her world, to be a woman is engrossing at times, framed through the...
This really wasn’t a bad book, except for the underlying need for the author to again, throw horrible event after horrible event at the protagonist that really was unnecessary. Reading page after page on how her mother suffers due to the entire village somehow blaming HER for the tornado that destro...
i had to read this book for school in sixth grade and it is so disturbing. i was scarred for life. it's a realistic but very depressing book, and i didn't really like the writing style or the characters. and it has one of those endings that leaves you feeling like life is pointless. i wouldn't recom...
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