Celeste (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)

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Summary: A really messed up book
Review: Sunday, October 24, 2004 5:20 PM
All I gotta share about Celeste is: It's a really messed up book. The mother in the book claimed that she saw and spoke to her ancestors, and after Celeste's brother (Nobel) dies in a tragic accident ... her mother has Celeste take Noble's identity. That's up until a new boy (Elliot) moves in to the old man's house next door, and finds that Nobel (AKA Celeste) is really a girl when she was found masturbating in the woods. Elliot soon rapes her in another order of 'black mailing her' to the public. Elliot dies drowning the same (maybe the same) way Noble had died. Celeste later realized that there is something growing in her tummy, and then her mother is told (by Celeste) about every thing that happened in the woods, and the mother then makes clear to her that there is a baby growing inside of her. Months later, Celeste (AKA Noble) gives birth to a baby girl with red hair. The mother dyes her baby girl's hair blonde, and forbids Celeste (AKA Nobel) not to go NEAR the baby in two weeks. She was forced to stay down in the living room, watching TV and eating meals. Once when her mother was knocked out with exhaustion, she snuck upstairs to find the baby screaming in her mother's locked bedroom. She slowly takes the keys from her mother's apron, and walks SLOWLY up stairs, in to her mother's room, and sees her daughter for the first time ever, noticing that her mother had dyed her hair blonde, because it wasn't red anymore. She picks her up, and let her suck on one of her boobs for her to feed. The mother finds them like that, and puts the baby back in the crib where the baby girl slept. Celeste asks for her name. "Baby Celeste", is the answer the mother gave her.


Give me a break, you guys. If there was such a thing that REALLY happened like this --- someone would take that insane mother of hers and put her in a mental institution! That's really f**ked up! I can't wait to read the second book to this: Black Cat.


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Summary: what a sick mother
Review: this is the story of a loving family with twins, a boy and a girl. the mother hears the spirits of her dead relatives and refuses to let her children have any type of life outside of the home. no friends, they are homeschooled(double yuck here) and the silly father goes along with it.

but when the father dies, and a few years later her son dies, the mother really loses it. she forces her daughter celeste to take on the idenity of her brother and completely emerge herself as a boy.

now there are some interesting scenes on how a mother deals with a girl' puberty problems whens she is supposed to be a boy but this is just a sick book. the first 200 pages makes u think the mother really needs to be in a mental institution. hopefully all the parenets out there who refuse to let their children have normal lives and attend school will look at this story and think twice.

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Summary: Bomb Diggity
Review: This was a nice change from the previous senarios in the first few series. This book was a little to long, and could have been cut down. But it was still a thrilling story. I only hope that Celeste can get rid of her mother, and live happily with her daughter and a husband. We'll just have to read more and find out!

This is deffinately a good book to read!