BoOk rEvUe On aRE YOu ThERe GoD itS me MaRgAReT?

Posted by jordie on March 08th 2006 to Uncategorized

By Judy Blume
Are you there god it’s me Margaret, is an interesting and very girlie book.
The book is about a young 12 year old girl called Margaret who moves to a new town  and desperately wants to fit in with all of her new friends…….. But her new friends have a religion. Margaret doesn’t feel that she can tell her friends that she can talk to god and not have a religion at the same time. During the book Margaret and her new friends form a group to talk about boys, getting their first periods and bras. While Margaret is juggling whether to tell or to not tell her friends that she doesn’t have a religion.
Enjoy reading a book that makes you feel a lot more comfortable about yourself and lets you imagine what’s really happening in Margaret’s life. 
 

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Juggling With Mandarins

Posted by jordie on March 07th 2006 to Uncategorized
  
The book juggling with mandarins deals with a 12 year old boy named Pip whos dad is very competitive and expects Pip to be better than he is, a brother who treats Pip like a nobody and talk to him as if he is a litle child and most of all his love life, with the girl next door, his best friend Katie.
My favourite part of the book was at the very end when Pip was competing in the rock climbing competition. It was like his whole life was going the way he wanted it to go.His brother was treating him with respect, his father was proud of him and let Pip do a sport with out any competition, and Pip was doing something for himself for once not for anyone else around him.
I would have to say that Rob would have to be my favourite character in the book because he understands what Pip is going through and knows that Pip is doing rock climing for fun not for a competition. Rob is a kind caring person who respects peoples dicisions and shows Pip that he needs to do things for himself not a family member or a friend for himself.
I thought that by the end of the book Pip and Katie would be together but it turned out that they still werent talking and they acted as if they didnt even no each other.
I believe that book is called Juggling with Mandarins not only because Pip learns how to juggle but also through out the book he is juggling with problems in his life. He gets better at juggling so tries to juggle with more than two then when he juggles more balls more problems pop up that he has to deal with.

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