A Taste of Blackberries

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Summary: Hey check this out!
Review: A Taste of Blackberries is an exellant Book. The words are absoulately stunning. The book has a lot of suspense. I've enjoyed reading it. It is the best book I have ever read.

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Summary: Trouble at The Blackberries
Review: As I was researching a recipe for blackberry cobbler, I was reminded of this book that I read over 20 years ago. By reading reviews from 10-12 yrs. olds, I was swept back to my childhood and was suddenly 10 again!
Even though I haven't read the book since I was a child, the memory of it is still as crisp as ever! I remember this was the first book that gripped me and made me feel something. All others before it were jouvenile and emotionless.
"The Taste of Blackberries" made me fall in love with reading. As I purchase it again today, I will make sure it's a story read over and over again to my children, and by my children! I HIGHLY recommend this!!

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Summary: Sad but Uplifting
Review: I also read this book over 20 years ago for the first time. I still have my own copy and every couple of years I re-read it. It deals with the friendship between 2 boys and also about how the surviving boy deals with the "too early" death of a friend due to an allergic reaction to a bee sting. It is a fantastic book and one of the few that I have kept from my child hood. I highly recommend it for readers.

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Summary: A Taste Of Blackberries
Review: I came across this book in my sister's bedroom. She's only 7 and i think one of her teachers recommended it to her. Anyways, i picked it up and began reading it for no particular reason. This is a fantastic book. This will become my 2nd favorite book. I'm only in high school but this book moved me deeply. I'm not ashamed to say that i cried while i was reading it. This is such a touching story and i'm sad that jamie had to die but i liked the way that the book ending. It didn't end up really sad. ( i hate sad endings) Normally i don't like books where people die but in this book it was so pure and simple that i don't mind it. I would recommend this book to anyone it is a wonderful book that everyone needs to read. The most heartwarming part of this book is where the main character offered (silently) to be Jamie's mom's "substitue son." That part made me cry too. The most interesting part of this book is that the name of the character is never revealed. It makes the story seem so much more personal, as if the reader is actually the main character and is experiencing everything along with him. I can't tell you how many times i love this book, but i love this book! Read it or else you are missing out on one of the best books ever written! :-)

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Summary: One of The Best Books Out There!
Review: I have read this book in the 4th grade and still love it to death. This book mad me cry at the end because of what happens. i would recommend this book to all people no matter what age. The book is about two best friend that pick blackberries with each other over summer but one of the boys ends up getting stung by bees and dies. His best friend the summer he is gone goes and picks balckberries for his best friends mother (cause that is what they would do they would give give the blackberries to their mothers.) I love this book and I will never stop reading it. I have been trying to find it for almost 3 years now and finally my mother is getting it for me for christmas. It just shows how much I love this book. i would lke to thank my 4th grade teacher for making me read it. So if you ever see this book in the store in the libary check it out you are going to love it.

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Summary: The taste of blackberries
Review: I read this book over 20 years ago and I find every few years or so I read it again. I am planning on buying this book again when I think my children question me or expereince a death of someone they know. I think it is a great book to read aloud to your child or give to them to read for themselves to help them learn what another child thinks about death. A book with a great lesson to be learned and revisted.

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Summary: A book you can't forget
Review: I read this book over 20 years ago, when it first came out. I was in the third grade. I can still remember sitting in my house, on my front porch, carrying this book around with me and finishing it as soon as possible. Jamie was the kind of kid we all knew and sometimes didn't like. We may have even wished something bad would happen to him as we read the story. But when it does, we are taken aback, and just can't believe that he will never play another trick again. The descriptions of picking and eating the blackberries, of attending Jamie's funeral, of eating food that still tastes good even after Jamie's death, are so very vivid to me today, 26 years later. This book is such a classic. I'm so glad you continue to offer it.

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Summary: This was the worst book I ever read!
Review: I read this book when I was in the 4th grade and I absolutely loved it!!! That was almost 30 years ago, and the story has remained with me ever since. I haven't been able to eat a popsicle in all that time without thinking about the passage where Jamie is so careful not to let his tongue freeze to his own popsicle. I've just purchased the book for my own 4th grade daughter even though I have told her the story repeatedly. This one will stay with you forever!

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Summary: Trouble at The Blackberries
Review: What would you do if your best freind died? In A Taste of Blackberries By Doris Buchanan Smith the narrator's best freind dies. Jaime and the narrator are best freind. They go to the blackberry patch together. One day the ambulance came and something happened to someone. If you want to now what happened read this book. If you like sad books thi is the book you want to read. I recommend this book to everybody.