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Summary: Fiction as a way to connect with the truth
Review: I wrote Welcome to the Ark because in my work as a consultant to parents of extremely intelligent children I have come to believe that we know far too little about the possibilities of the human mind. I have met and worked with children whose clearly demonstrable abilities seem impossible. What we could learn about children as far from the norms as the "Ark children" could teach us a great deal about the rest of us if we were willing to look. In addition, I felt a powerful need to create fictional characters whose lives and feelings reflect those of real children who are often discounted, neglected, or disallowed because of differences we have not yet come to understand or to accept.
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Summary: SHE GETS IT
Review: I'm going to be frank--I read this book because I am smart, and I wanted to know what the author's take on the world of smart people was.
I'm tired of stereotyping. You know who I am. There's one of me in every school. The Kid Who Makes A's On Report Cards--100s, even. The Smart Kid. The Geek. I'm that person, but I'm not like an stupid steroetype. I don't wear glasses, and I'm not a kiss-popular-butt-pushover. I'm loud and like to have fun.I just think a lot. I don't really like math or science--I like writing. I'm thirteen, and I'm writing a book. Unfortuantely, most people have bought into the Hollywood image of smart people: "geeks", interested only in facts. I'm not a geek. Facts are OK, but they're not that great.And I don't try to learn them. They just happen. It's not my fault, but most people think it is.
This is why I liked "Welcome to the Ark" so much. Stephanie S. Tolan completely understands how smart people think. We are normal. You just have to get to know us. Sure, we're a bit extraordinary, but we're still people. It was refreshing to read a book that depicted smart people as real.
I highly recommend that every teenager, intelligent or stupid, read this book. It will help you gain understanding for the smart kid in your school. We're really not all that bad, and Miz Tolan reveals that fact far better than I could. So please, read this book. It's an easy read, and at the end, you might just understand more than you did when you started it.
P.S. If you want a real review, read the Editor's Reviews. I've got better things to do.
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Summary: A Compelling Read
Review: If you haven't read this book, buy it right now! This book is the best young adult novel you can find. I found myself to be inside the characters' heads. I could feel the relationships between the kids. Submerse yourself into this book, and I guarunatee that you will fell the same. Enjoy!
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Summary: Welcome to the Ark
Review: In our class we are reading Welcome To The Ark. In my group everybody loves the book. It's easy to read, and easy to follow. It's an exciting adventure of four prodigies who are fighting the terrors of the outside world together. Welcome to the Ark is inspiring to me because it shows no matter how alone you feel, there is always someone like you that you can connect with. It was really easy to relate to the problems they face. We would reccomend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Welcome To The Ark
Review: In our class we are reading Welcome To The Ark. In my group everybody loves the book. It's easy to read, and easy to follow. It's an exciting adventure of four prodigies who are fighting the terrors of the outside world together. Welcome to the Ark is inspiring to me because it shows no matter how alone you feel, there is always someone like you that you can connect with. It was really easy to relate to the problems they face. We would reccomend this book to anyone.
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Summary: welcome to the arc
Review: In the year 1999 four brillent young misfits becme psychiatris patients at the Laurel Mountian Reserch Center,which is a very nice ad expenceive mental hospital for chilldren. Miranda the child prodigy, Doug the computer wiz, Elijah is a telipathic, and tayrn talks with trees.
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Summary: I hated this book
Review: Maybe it was because I was forced to read this book for my 8th grade English class, and the fact that I hate everything that I am forced to do...but I hated this book. This book was just filled with too many mind-numbing dreams, which the class went over in detail so that every below average student would understand what they did not read. We got tested on every little detail of this book...all of which were insignificant...what color are her eyes...what did they see in the 4,723rd dream? and so on. Do not waste your time reading this book unless you want to read what the imaginiations of unoriginal authors have to think about pain and suffering in this world.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: So rarely do books come out that deal exclusivley about bright people, bright CHILDREN no less, we must give it a fair shot. In this book two psychologists took brilliant children, and helped them realize that they weren't all so very different from one another. Each child was bruised in someway, in every way from feeling different from the rest of the world so intensley that they can barely stand it, to being physically abused. Ms. Tolan did the (expected) wonderful job I was hoping for with this book. From the ending, I believe that a sequel may be published in awhile, but I am not sure. You will be astounded by the outcome, and how much you connect to these amazing characters.
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Summary: Exceptional insights about exceptionally gifted children!
Review: Stephanie Tolan's experience in the real world of very gifted children is obvious in this well written story. It is one of the first books I recommend to parents of even moderately gifted youngsters. The best indication of this book's value, however, is that my 12 year old son has re-read "Welcome to the Ark" at least twice since we purchased it a year ago.
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Summary: A beautifully written tale of four fascinating children
Review: Stephanie Tolan's intriguing account of four incredibly gifted children and the interactions they have with each other creates a fabulous tale of intelligence and its effects on the world. Though fictional, it adds realistic dimensions to international violence and the only way it can be stopped.
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