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  • Shadowland
    • Rated 3 stars

    Not as good as #1 & #2.

    Olympia High School Library Media Center wrote this review Wednesday, February 24, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Rules of Survival
    • Rated 0 stars

    This is an excellent book! Living with an unpredictable, psychotic mother has taught Matthew how to survive. Constantly on alert, he and his sister, Callie, devotedly shelter their younger stepsister, Emmy, from their mother's abuse and worry about staying safe. Matt insists that "fear isn't actually a bad thing . . . . It warns you to pay attention, because you're in danger. It tells you to do something, to act, to save yourself," but his terror is palpable in this haunting, powerful portrayal of domestic dysfunction, which is written in retrospect as a letter from Matt to Emmy. Unfortunately, the adults in the children's life, a distant father and an apathetic aunt, don't help, though Matt sees a spark of hope in Murdoch, who dates his mother, Nikki, and then leaves when he becomes another target for her escalating rage. It is Murdoch, with a violent past of his own, who is willing to risk getting involved and eventually becomes the change agent that the children so desperately need.

    Olympia High School Library Media Center wrote this review Monday, September 14, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Shack
    • Rated 2 stars

    I did not like this book at all. From what we talked about at book club, you are either going to love it or hate it.

    Olympia High School Library Media Center wrote this review Monday, April 20, 2009. ( reply | permalink )