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Summary: Excellent book for Your Teens (correction)
Review: "It's a great book that teens can lread and hopefully notice that there are other people that have the some of the same struggles that I have."...woops...i meant to say that it is a great book that teens can read and hopefully notice that there are other people who may have the same feelings or struggles that they also have...
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Summary: I wish I could give more stars for this book
Review: Before I read this book I was haveing a spiritual down fall after reading it I was complete reformed.Rachel became my role model and should be the role model for any christian of any age. The author uses Rachel's poems, writtings, stories, quotes, ect to teach other's through Rachel's life. I am happy they didn't say much about her death because she isn't dead, she is living forever in heaven. If more people would read this book and take it to heart and tell others to read it our world would be a better place. Full of love, kindness, gentelness, out reaching, and hopefully more people living their lives for our Lord Jesus Christ. When I tell others about this book I am speechless...God helped me grow through this book and He will work through it to you.
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Summary: I found myself forgetting that Rachel hadn't written it
Review: Certainly everyone has been impacted by the Columbine shootings in some way. As for me I watched in stunned disbelief as the story unfolded on TV the same day I was celebrating my birthday. The tragedy left many a broken heart across the country and world. This book is the fictionalized story of one of the Columbine victims as told by the author who plays the role of Rachel Scott. Klingsporn does her best to reach into the mind of this young lady using entries from her journals and interviews with her family and friends as the foundation. Of course no one can truly capture the essence of Rachel but the author seems to do a good job of recreating Rachel's final years of life based on what information she had.The book is written in an easy to read way mainly for younger teens and paints a story of a very typical yet very unique person. Rachel experienced the same life challenges as most teens, sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing. Her faith in God played a crucial role in her life and was the focus of her goals which seemed to lead her to a more stable yet no less dramatic path in her final year of life. It was this same faith though that led to rejection and ridicule by some. While I can see why they may have seen her as being somewhat of an "oddity" with her upfront, no nonsense approach to God being that I'm not a Christian myself I nevertheless see though same qualities as the key to unlocking the hearts of people everywhere of all walks of life, religious or not and I can't help but ask myself if I would like to live in the kind of world that Rachel would create. The answer is easily yes and I dare say even Rachel's killers would have preferred her world too because the world Eric and Dylan created for themselves only led them to their own destruction.
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Summary: A Unique story about a unique young lady
Review: Certainly everyone has been impacted by the Columbine shootings in some way. As for me I watched in stunned disbelief as the story unfolded on TV the same day I was celebrating my birthday. The tragedy left many a broken heart across the country and world. This book is the fictionalized story of one of the Columbine victims as told by the author who plays the role of Rachel Scott. Klingsporn does her best to reach into the mind of this young lady using entries from her journals and interviews with her family and friends as the foundation. Of course no one can truly capture the essence of Rachel but the author seems to do a good job of recreating Rachel's final years of life based on what information she had. The book is written in an easy to read way mainly for younger teens and paints a story of a very typical yet very unique person. Rachel experienced the same life challenges as most teens, sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing. Her faith in God played a crucial role in her life and was the focus of her goals which seemed to lead her to a more stable yet no less dramatic path in her final year of life. It was this same faith though that led to rejection and ridicule by some. While I can see why they may have seen her as being somewhat of an "oddity" with her upfront, no nonsense approach to God being that I'm not a Christian myself I nevertheless see though same qualities as the key to unlocking the hearts of people everywhere of all walks of life, religious or not and I can't help but ask myself if I would like to live in the kind of world that Rachel would create. The answer is easily yes and I dare say even Rachel's killers would have preferred her world too because the world Eric and Dylan created for themselves only led them to their own destruction.
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Summary: Oh look - a false martyr!!
Review: Does it even matter that after polic reports and countless eye-witness accounts that it has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Rachel Scott was not killed for her belief in god? Well it should. Burn this book, it's a sham.
Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are not hateful anti-god monsters, but if it makes it easier for her mother and others to accept the tragedy - go ahead, let them indulge in their lies.
In search of better reading try 'No Easy Answers: the Truth Behind Death at Columbine' or the police report available through investigating police department
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Summary: Oh look - a false martyr!!
Review: Does it even matter that after polic reports and countless eye-witness accounts that it has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Rachel Scott was not killed for her belief in god? Well it should. Burn this book, it's a sham.
Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are not hateful anti-god monsters, but if it makes it easier for her mother and others to accept the tragedy - go ahead, let them indulge in their lies.
In search of better reading try 'No Easy Answers: the Truth Behind Death at Columbine' or the police report available through investigating police department
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Summary: Honest and Open Book
Review: I have read the book The Journals of Rachel Scott and I feel the writer had a very tough job to write from Rachel's point of veiw without ever knowing her personally. As Rachel's sister I feel that she did an awesome job. Much of the book was based on things written and said to her friends and family in letters and journals. Though no person could ever truly capture who Rachel was and what she would write I feel that the book shows a young girl who made a difference with her life because of her willingness. I am very proud of my mom who wrote this book and I know that Rachel would want her to know that same!!
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Summary: Gave this to my 17 year-old niece
Review: I haven't read this book, but I gave it to my niece after she read "The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernal" and she loved this book. Though the book is not actually written by this Columbine victim, it does contain excerpts from her personal diary and it was very inspiration to my neice.
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Summary: Gave this to my 17 year-old niece
Review: I haven't read this book, but I gave it to my niece after she read "The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernal" and she loved this book. Though the book is not actually written by this Columbine victim, it does contain excerpts from her personal diary and it was very inspiration to my neice.
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Summary: Wish It Had Come From Rachel
Review: I thought the book was beautiful and moving but I was really dissapointed that it wasn't Rachel's actual journal, instead it was written by a woman who looked through all of Rachel's writings and then wrote "from Rachel's point of view" plus her own vision. I think it would have been a lot more hard hitting and real if the book really was a reprint of Rachel's real journals, that way we could hear from and learn about this amazing girl from her own words. No offense to the writer who did a good job but I think Rachel has touched so many people that we want to learn all we can about her and read her thoughts for ourselves without someone else's impression of them mixed in. I hope Rachel's parents print her real journals in the future.
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