The Girl Who Owned A City

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Summary: From a kids point of view.
Review: I read this book four years ago when I was eight, now normally, after four years you would forget a books title, the plot, the character's names, almost everything about it. I didn't; this book really lodged itself in my head.
It's about Lisa, a ten year old who finds herself in a world where no one is above the age of twelve. If you think about it, could this actually happen, could Lisa be smart enough to save her neighborhood? Yes, she could, because if you're forced to do something, you do it right if your life depends on it.
This book really shows what would happen if something like this ever could happen. You remember it years later, and the story is always fun and new. Lisa and her group show you that anything is possible, and I like it because of this. It's not meant to scare you, it's meant to educate and inform you. It's a great book and I reccomend it to children and parents alike. 5 Stars.

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Summary: This book was so interesting to read!
Review: Imagine living in a world with no adults, no power, no running water, and very little food if any whatsoever. This is the life that Lisa and "Toddy-boy" lived their lives. After the plauge, their was only children left in Grand Avenue. To live, these children formed power, and love for each other, they needed to get away and stay away from the Chidester Gang. Lisa wants to get the world movong again, she wants schools to run, and the jets to fly, she eventually learns to drive and then teaches others. They find a grocery warehouse and they have a wonderful food supply. Bad things and good things happen and...I'm telling too much, if you want to find out what happens to the children, go ahead..read the book. I highly recommend it!

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Summary: Unimaginative treatment of a fanciful premise
Review: Here is a book with every cliche notion about leadership applied to a setting that opens with everyone over 12 having died of a plague. Ten-year-old Lisa becomes run-of-the-mill leader of a neighborhood of children trying to protect themselves and their supplies from a run-of-the-mill gang who steals what provisions other children have looted from warehouses, rather than "work to get what they need." A militia is presented as the only answer to the gang threat. I guess we are supposed to admire Lisa's clever, no-nonsense "strategy" for getting the neighborhood kids to join her "militia." She dangles samples of her secret food supply before their famished faces and says she'll share if they join her militia and won't share if they don't. Gee, how imaginative! There is nothing noble or uplifting in Lisa. She's just a stereotypical hardliner who plays on others' desperation to command obedience. Unlike that evil gang that would be living off the dole if there were one, Lisa and her hard-working friends are presumably justified in their brutality. They use rock slides, molotov coctails, and drums of boiling oil poured from the roof of the high school where they ultimately live as citizens of a new city, owned by Guess Who. The book reads like an excuse for right-wing propoganda, where whiney 5-year-old orphans magically feel better when given an opportunity to earn their keep by collecting gas cans and the car keys of their dead parents. Good old-fashioned hard work heals all. The book is rife with plausibility problems and shallow in its study of how children might react and survive in a world with no adults. While the author preaches about the need to earn one's keep, the author pulls rabbit after rabbit out of his (her?) hat instead of doing the hard work of thinking deeply about characters and presenting a true and moving manifestation of the hard work of authorship.

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Summary: An epic disease... a girl who wanted to fight for her life
Review: In this story a gruesome disease wipes out all people over twelve. 10 year old Lisa and her brother Todd to try to defend themselves in Mid-America against gangs, starvation, and death. Lisa decides to take over a local high school, making it a small town complete with a hospital, school, guard dogs, and weapons. She lets children into her "city" called Glenbard. Throughtout the book Lisa has struggles, such as wars, hunger, supply shortages, etc. I highly recoomened this book because of the overall point that you can do anything once you set your mind to it.

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Summary: THE COOLEST BOOK BY:ELISE
Review: THE BOOK THE GIRL WHO OWNED A CITY WAS A WONDERFUL BOOK!!!!! I WILL RECCOMEND THE BOOK TO WHOEVER WANTS TO READ A WONDERFUL BOOK. IT IS FULL OF BRAVERY AND EXCITMENT:)

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Summary: Individualism for children
Review: My nine-year-old finished this 200-page book today, then I read it! Not a week ago I finished reading Atlas Shrugged for the third time in twenty years. The book cleverly draws on Rands' individualism, illustrates to children why private property is vital to civilization, and shows how gangs of mindless brutes don't stand a chance against the powerful mind of a small girl. To call the heroine a "totalitarian," as some reviewers have suggested, is absurd. If you're a guest in someone's house, and you suddenly become unwelcome, then showing you the door doesn't make the host a fascist!

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Summary: the girl who owned a city
Review: I really enjoyed this book. It made me think of how much we depend on what we have. In thios book Lisa(a ten-year-old)and her younger brother, Todd, are struggling to find the basics of life, like food and medicine. Then she has her neighborhood work together to protect each other from the gangs. Lisa learns to drive, which opens up a world of opportunities to find food! after many attacks, the children move to the local high school(Glenbard), where Lisa's "city" is ste up. after many more exciting struggles lisa comes out victorious against the gangs. i would recommend this book to anyone with a good imagination!

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Summary: Read this book
Review: If not my favorite childhood book, definitely top 3. I will be passing this treasure on to my kids, and their kids, and recommending to anyone who listens.

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Summary: Remind me not to wear platform shoes around the plot holes..
Review: Goodness gracious. Well, let's start at the beginning: A devastating virus tears through Earth (or at the very least, the USA), killing everyone in the world over 12 years old. Yeesh. In a small neighborhood somewhere, a 10-year-old girl named Lisa is forced to fend for herself in her house with her little brother, Todd. When violent gangs (of pre-pubescent children... ^_^;;) start to attack and steal from other childfamilies, Lisa, who's seemingly brilliant, rallies her neighborhood into army. Throughout the book, they fight the gangs and for their lives... Okay, review time. To put put it gently, this book was a minefield of plotholes. Really, the plot itself would be fantastic if it weren't for lots of bits that annoyed me to no end, such as: why isn't ANYONE upset over the death of everyone over 12 in the world? And where is the logic in the virus? It's never explained! And where are the dead bodies? I mean, come on! And, no offense to anyone, but 10-year-olds just aren't smart enough to do the things Lisa does. I could go on and on. The book, while it tries to let some good values shine through, is drowning in a sea of violence (they pour boiling oil and shards of glass and rock on the gangs--- OWWW!), thieft (with no real visible consequences), starvation, greed greed greed (did I mention greed?), egotism, depressing ideas, and more. Sooo... While I did somewhat find that thinking about the plot and what might have really happened, the book itself was a big letdown. Someone out there: pease rewrite "The Girl Who Owned A City" and send me a copy.

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Summary: Awesome Book!
Review: I really enjoyed this book! It is about a plage that has swept over the earth killing everyone over the age of 12. This book is a series of good and bad things that happen to Lisa and her Militia. It is one of those books that you just can't put down and you never want the story to end! I highly recommened it!