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*screams*

So I'm gonna backdate this entry. Let's put something worthwhile in it, though, shall we?

I know! I'll make fun of amazon.com again!

Trickster's Choice

I have just finished this book and I thought that it was almost wonderful. The ending stank! It was inconclusive and it did not answer any of my questions throughout the book such as... What happens to the Balting children? Who becomes queen, Dove, Sarai, or even Aly? What ends up happening between Nawat and Aly?
I most sincerely hope that she is planning on writing a sequel. I hold her writing in the very highest respect, but this would crash her reputation with me. I am giving her the benefit of the doubt.

Do you think she doesn't know what she's doing? Of COURSE it's getting a sequel, that's why the ending was left "unfinished", as you put it. Otherwise, it'd be the first of her books (and this reviewer goes on to say she's read the rest of them) to be written sans sequel.

Nothing but the Truth

Now really, what school would suspend a kid for humming The National Anthem? I've yet to read a book i school that I actually like but this was by far the worst of them all.

You'd be surprised what people try to do.

This book is full of irony. It is more ironic than a person starving to death in a grocery store. An example of irony is the title is Nothing But the Truth, right, but in fact this book is full of liars. Such as the main character, Philip Malloy. He never told the truth about what had happened the day he was suspended for singing the national anthem. Another way this book was ironic was the whole problem was from Philip singing the national anthem when the announcements were on supposededly to be patriotic. But in the last sentence of the book you find out he doesn't even know the words.

HUMMING, you idiot, HUMMING. And, if you must know, he never claimed he was being patriotic. He just hummed along to whatever song he heard. Did you even read this?

If you have the Chance NEVER read the book read HARRY POTTER! (now that is a good story)

*smitesmitesmitesmitesmite*

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.

IT IS NOT ABOUT SINGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM! It's about people overreacting, and communities being torn apart, and lots of things that have NOTHING TO DO with singing or anthems or patriotism or ANYTHING.

This book was ok. It didn't teach you much.I liked Phillip.He liked to have fun just like me!

*cries*

First of all, the book started out fairly boring and just kept getting more and more annoying as the plot went on. Phillip sounded like a very very uptight child where everything was his way or no way. He was also REALLY spoiled. I know my father wouldn't run off and tell a press lady all about my little "problem" just because I was disrespectful on singing the national anthem during the middle of class. It was Philip's fault, he should have shut up. Ms. Narwin wasn't all that bad, yet the whole time they talked trash about her. Suspended for singing the national anthem? What school plays the national anthem in the morning anyway? Now we say the Pledge Of Allegiance and have a moment of silence. The book is completely wrong and I do not recommend it to ANYONE! By the way, I would've given it no stars but Avi deserves a little bit since he took the time to write such an annoying book.

Let's take this step by step. He was not singing the national anthem in the middle of class, he was humming along as it was played over the loudspeaker. He was not trying to be disrespectful, he was, in fact, correct in asserting that she overreacted. And yes, some schools do things differently from your school. Just because YOU do not hear the national anthem does not mean that other schools are in that situation.

The main character is really boring. Some of the characters were useless to the story. Philip's parents were really weird. Normal parents do not act like that. My parents would back up the teacher.

Normal parents act like that when they feel their child's rights have been violated. Believe it or not, adults aren't always correct.

I am disappointed that Avi took such a simple conflict and, through his writing, has it lead to serious consequences.

Hey. It happens. You think it doesn't happen, you're fooling yourself.

Well, that's done. Night all.