Planning the Impossible

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Summary: Dissapointing
Review: I am a mother and when my daughter told me to read it...i was dissapointed. I found one or two mistakes in the novel and the dialogue was not life-like at all. It was annoying how the main charachter (river) kept making comments about every statement someone said. The slang was used through out the book and was outdated and some were inappropriate.Also throughout the book, sex-education was being taught to the students which i thought was unnessacary and a nuisance to add to a child book. The good part about the book is that it has a good climax and you don't want to put the book down, although the dialogue is annoying.

Rating:
Summary: Parents should read this before handing it to their child.
Review: There were many problems with this book. I expected more froma Newberry Honor. I read this book for a book review in my Children'sLiterature class. The constant dialogue and slang is frustrating, andsome of the slang is outdated. Jukes tries to make this book current with the use of slang, which is a poor choice. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to connect with the characters, because of the lack of description and trite plot. Jukes even changes point of view at one point in the book. Another problem the editor should have caught, was she misplaced a character name at one point in the book. Jukes was supposed to use the name of the main character's sister, Megan, but used Margaret instead. Part of the story was unnecessary when describing male anatomy. Somewhere on the cover should be a clue to the parents of the content, so they can make an educated decision whether they want their child to learn these topics in juvenile fiction. Overall I was very disappointed.