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Summary: An Anlien Spring
Review: I thought the novel "An Alien Spring" was good. We had read this book in reading class. Was fun to read this novel, many mystics and secrets, many young characters. I think this book is really interesting, for all my classmates. I like this novel, because it is not so long. Many events were about unnatural.
I think many students should learn something from this novel. Because many people make mistakes, and many people just can't understand another people. This story is like for example, about peoples' differences and about peoples' comprehension. Because in this story is one guy, named Edward, who just moved in the new Town Marnard. But he is absolutely different to another student, and in this story is descriptions, how one boy named Mark wanted to make introduction with Edward, when many peoples thought he is Alien. Because he didn't talked with anybody and he was looked very different and strange. All towns people were afraid him, even teachers seemed afraid. Their eyes were full of fear. He is really alien?
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Summary: The Worst Book Your Middle School Teacher Made You Read
Review: Preachy, dull, AND stupid is a deadly comibnation. AN ALIEN SPRING is designed to teach the kids a lesson about life, supposedly using an exciting science fiction format. In the opening scene, a corn field burns to the ground in the night. Then there's the new kid in school, Edward, who people think is a weird alien. A wave a illness hits the town, and bofore you know it, the townspeople are off to play "lynch the stranger". But it all comes out O. K., because Mark, our hero, trusts his feelings, and helps Edward and his brother escape. The writing is crashingly dull -- primer-like simple sentences, one after another. And the stupidity abounds... Mark is supposed to be on the basketball team. But he never goes to practice, never has a game, and basketball season should have been over for several months when the story takes place. He's also supposed to be the handsomest boy in the school. But when the story starts he doesn't have a girlfriend, and hadn't even thought about going to the prom. Mark's Dad is supposed to be unemployed becasue nobody will give his a job after his "nervous breakdown". But at a critical point in the plot, somebody loans him a helicopter. He's too crazy to get a job selling insurance, but he can borrow a helicopter? Sorry, but this is one of those "let's teach the kiddies a lesson" that got shoe-horned into the bare threads of an attempted plot. There's no attempt to resolve anything -- we never learn if Edward and his brother really are aliens, or just "strangers with ways different from ours". And if you know anything about life in the country, which the author obviously doesn't, you are put off right from the first when you realize that the termpurature required to burn down a field of green spring corn would be so great that the entire area would be set ablaze.
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Summary: The Worst Book Your Middle School Teacher Made You Read
Review: Preachy, dull, AND stupid is a deadly comibnation. AN ALIEN SPRING is designed to teach the kids a lesson about life, supposedly using an exciting science fiction format. In the opening scene, a corn field burns to the ground in the night. Then there's the new kid in school, Edward, who people think is a weird alien. A wave a illness hits the town, and before you know it, the townspeople are off to play "lynch the stranger". But it all comes out O. K., because Mark, our hero, trusts his feelings, and helps Edward and his brother escape. The writing is crashingly dull -- primer-like simple sentences, one after another. And the stupidity abounds... Mark is supposed to be on the basketball team. But he never goes to practice, never has a game, and basketball season should have been over for several months when the story takes place. He's also supposed to be the handsomest boy in the school. But when the story starts he doesn't have a girlfriend, and hadn't even thought about going to the prom. Mark's Dad is supposed to be unemployed becasue nobody will give his a job after his "nervous breakdown". But at a critical point in the plot, somebody loans him a helicopter. He's too crazy to get a job selling insurance, but he can borrow a helicopter? Sorry, but this is one of those "let's teach the kiddies a lesson" that got shoe-horned into the bare threads of an attempted plot. There's no attempt to resolve anything -- we never learn if Edward and his brother really are aliens, or just "strangers with ways different from ours". And if you know anything about life in the country, which the author obviously doesn't, you are put off right from the first when you realize that the termpurature required to burn down a field of green spring corn would be so great that the entire area would be set ablaze.
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