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Summary: OUTSTANDING REFLECTION ON THE TEENAGE YEARS!!
Review: I truely enjoyed this book! It gave me a chance to reflect on my teenage years. It focused on family relationships, peer pressure, jealousness, expensive clothes, flashy cars, drug-dealers, and sex. If there was a situation in the book that hadn't happen to me, then it happened to one of my friends or relatives. Excellent idea for a middle school graduation gift!!
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Summary: I loved this book and would recommend it to all!!
Review: I read this book when I was 15. I started it at a cousin's house and could not put it down when it came time to go home. My mom surprised me a few months later with my own copy! I loved this new fresh style of writing and now I own:Battle Zone, Capital City, and Flyy Girl. I've lent out Flyy Girl atleast 8 times to friends,and my sister is borrowing Capital City and now holding it hostage in GA:) I love these books and I'm looking forward to buying A Do Right Man. I read that he attended Howard University. I'm now 16 and going to 11th grade and that college is one of my choices. He is one of my influences! Also my mother met him in Philadelphia last year and he signed a picture for me, my mother said he seemed like a down to earth person. I wish I had been there to meet him and to ask him to sign my books. Buy the books, you'll thank yourself later!
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Summary: A BOMB A** BOOK!
Review: Omar Tyree knows how to open a persons eyes. Flyy Girl had me comparing myself to Tracy. In this novel, you find yourself thinking the way of the characters and then actually growing-up with them. I started seeing views of Tracy and agreeing that I can get anything I want from a boy because I was (and still is fine.) Then when Tracy started to get dogg and used, it opened my eyes. This book is great book to read by any gender and anyone that is a teenager or has been one or who is looking foward to being a teenager, your outviews on life determine your lifestyle and how people treat you. This novel also points out that you have to be careful about who you choose as a rolemodel. Mecedes obviously wasn't one. I rate this novel a ten. Omar, PLEASE come out with more novel like this! zn
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Summary: This book is a waste of paper, ink, and time
Review: This book was sophomoric at best, trite, banal, and vulgar at all other times. Bebe Moore Campbell, Eric Jerome Dickey, Benilde Little, et. al. have NOTHING to worry about.
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Summary: It showed the life of a girl.
Review: He really got to the point about being a teenaged girl.
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Summary: FLASH BACK!!!!
Review: THIS BOOK WAS REALLY GOOD. IT WAS TRULY SHAMELESS HOW LOOKING BACK AT HOW LIFE WAS IN THE 80'S. IT'S MAKES YOU WONDER HOW YOU LIVED UP COMPARING TO THE CHARACTER TRACY. IT IS TRULY A PARENTS HANDBOOK ON HOW 'NOT TO' LET YOUR LITTLE GIRLS HAVE TOO MUCH FREEDOM. WATCH EM' PARENTS! THIS BOOK WAS A TRUE WAKEUP FOR ALL WHO GREW UP IN THE '80'S'. BRAVO OMAR!
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Summary: Excellent page-turner,would rate 10,but too much explaining
Review: I thought this one of the freshest books I've read in a while. I am an adult newpaper journalist and poet and I could not put the book down. I am also a p/t young adult librarian and I find many kids gravitating to this book after I do a booktalk. The book is true-to-life for most black girls, middle- or lower-class. Though many adults pretend they don't remember, many of us were just as boy-crazy as Tracy, the young heroine in the story. We may have just curtailed it, or handled it a bit more slickly. The story begins with Tracy as a young girl who knew she was pretty because of her skin tone, light eyes, and features. It accurately describes the elementary playground scenario. Girls start to notice boys. Some act on it. Others don't. Most boys, at that age, are not yet into girls, and have to be coaxed by the fast girls, or either act the way they see men act in videos. Tracy's neighbors are her best friends. The older is fast and uses her looks and body to get her way with men. The one Tracy's age is more of a studious (considered stuck-up) good girl. Tracy admires the former. Like most fickle teens, Tracy is out for the conquest and gets bored with boys once she gains control. Sometimes she is on top of the game. Other times she is not, such is life. She attracts all sorts from the studious, nice guy to the straight-up bad boy. The bad boys are more of a thrill to her. Tracy seems to go from bad to worst with boys as she gets older until she learns the tragic lesson, from viewing the one other female who is flyy in her opinion, about what happens to girls like her when they get caught out there. Tyree does a good job of describing the "going for a walk, but really to check out boys" scene. He also has the reader visualize the party scene in rememberance. He definitely has not forgotten what it was like to be a teen. I was very happy that Tyree made sure that Tracy had both parents around. And he did a good job of showing that parental relationships aren't perfect and that imperfection can affect the kids, but adult relationships have to be, and can be worked out. I was very happy that he showed this without selling out. The only problem I had with this book was that he explained the slang too much. It distracted from the book. So you wonder who is he writing for. I knew perfectly well what the brutha was saying without the explanation and the way videos influence people of all cultures, I'm sure everyone else did too. In my opinion Tyree is better than writers he is compared to. He has more of a plot that agenda. He is a contemporary writer, yes, but I think the literary crew would give him his props - and no I won't explain the meaning of props! Hint, hint, Tyree.
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Summary: Too Many Characters
Review: I could relate to the era in the book. The main character changed men (boys) like she changed underwear. It's a shame that sex has been reduced to such an act. I was very disappointed with her parents behavior. The first confrontation of Dave and Patti in the book, threw me. The next door neighbor, Keith was a tyrrant and his wife, Beth was a wimp. It was inevitable for Mercedes to choose the wrong path. I wished the author would of developed the college characters in detail because they were able to make a difference for Traci. I would recommend this book to a person between 18-25.
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Summary: THE BOMB! THOUGHT PROVOKING, TRUE TO MY TEENAGE YEARS
Review: IT WAS A BLESSING TO READ THIS BOOK. NEVER BEFORE HAD I READ A BOOK THAT EXPLAINED HOW OUR LIVES WERE IN 1985 AND BEYOND. I COULD TOTALLY RELATE. THIS BOOK TELLS IT LIKE IT WAS FOR ME GROWING UP, THE TALK, THE CLOTHES, THE SLANG USED. EVERYTHING WAS ON THE MONEY. I ACTUALLY FELT I PERSONALY KNEW EVERYBODY. DEFINATELY SHOULD BE ON AMERICA'S MOST WANTED LIST. IF YOU DON'T KNOW, YOU BETTER ASK SOMEBODY, BETTER YET CHECK IT OUT YO-SELF. I CRAVE MORE BOOKS LIKE THIS, THANKS TYREE.
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Summary: FABULOUS REAL-LIFE story. Tyree was on the mark!!!
Review: I thought this was one of the best fiction books I have read in a long time. It was hurtful, angering, frustrating, funny, sad, and even nerve-racking sometimes, but the fact is, IT WAS REAL! There were sooo many different people from my childhood years that I could have placed in each of the personalities Tyree portrayed in Flyy Girl. I am also thankful that unlike some African-American stories, the main charater was allowed to grow and develop in the book w/out coming-up short (I don't want to give anything away). I would never want to do those years again, but the book really brought back memories of all kinds. I was, however, disappointed to read the Kirkus review of the book - "the shapeless docudrama", to which the reviewer referred, is a true depiction of the adolescent lives of several African-Americans. While it may be difficult to relate to our being, it was/is a wonderful life, full of hope, blessings, trials and tribulations -- and I wouldn't have it any other way!! Two cheers of Omar Tyree!!
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