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Summary: Hope Is Now Here To Stay!
Review: The young girl Tulip has now blossomed into the bright, adolesent Hope. Hope hated her real name which was Tulip and so now she changed it to Hope. Moving from exciting Brooklyn, New York to Wisconsin does not sound like a good time to Hope but once she moved in and settled down everything was going just fine. Now she has to stand up and fight for what she feels is right so that G.T. can have one last chance at what he loves. This novel was exciting and at times very heart warming. "Hope Was Here" is a novel here to stay!
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Summary: Where's your tires at!
Review: ....Hope and her Aunt Addie are on the road again. Addie has got invited to work at the best selling resturant in Mulhoney, Wisconson. But who knew they would be entering the arms of a leukemia patient, who would soon die from the deadly disease. You will find out how Hope finds a new father, and how she did find HOPE in herself. You will be touched by how inspiring GT. Stoop really is. You'll laugh, cry, and be amazed all at the same time. ....
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Summary: A book you'll love
Review: "Hope was Here," was a great book!!! I loved it. In the book 16 year old Hope and her Aunt Addie move from Brooklyn N.Y to Muhoney WI. Where they meet G.T Stoop. G.t stoop is an owner of a Cafe who has lukimia. In this book ther is a little romance for Hope and her aunt Addie. Hope finds her self doing things that she never thought she would do in her life. She joins a campain to get G.T Stoop elected for mayor so that the evil Millstone can't get mayor for the 4th year running. I think this is really the best book I've ever read. It has humer,hope politics, diese, romance every thing. So I urge you to pick up the book today and read, you won't be disapointed.
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Summary: An amazing book
Review: Hope was Here by Joan Bauer is an amazingly interesting book that will be hard to close. If you think you have problems wait until you meet Hope! Her mother named her Tulip and left her with her Aunt Addie. Fortunately her aunt allowed her to change her name to Hope. Of course the name Hope comes with a lot of responsibilities. Her Aunt Addie is a traveling cook so Hope is a traveling waitress, and one of the best. When Hope leaves her perfect life in Brooklyn, New York to go to Mulhoney, Wisconsin she thinks everything will go wrong. After all she is there to help a guy with cancer who is dying. Brooklyn was her home or so she thought.
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Summary: A GREAT read for all ages
Review: I had to read a Newberry book for one of my college reading courses and had gotten this one from a friend. Even at 22, I could not put it down. It is such a wonderful book! I would reccomend it to anyone. It shows that the sometimes the good guys do win and how successful you can be if you are surrounded by the ones you love.
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Summary: "Hope was Here" A marvelous book!
Review: This original and interesting book captures your mind and takes you to the beautiful countryside of Wisconsin.
Hope, a 15 year old girl, who was abandoned by her mother when she was a baby, and now lives with her aunt Abby, tells us about the summer that changed her life. Because of Abby's job as a cook, Hope goes from the busy state on New York to a quiet, small town in the countryside of Wisconsin. This journey changes her life forever.
She might not fit in at first, but when she plays a great part in the town's future by helping G.T win for mayor everything changes. G.T is a 50-year-old man that suffers from Leukemia. Hope gains faith in G.T and herself and knows from deep inside she has to help G.T win for mayor. So hope, and her friend Braver man join the town's teenagers to help G.T accomplish his last true dream, even though the town's people might not agree because of G.T's sickness.
As everything was going great for Hope , to her surprise her mother was coming to visit . At the end of this visit she feels very disappointed but forces herself not to let this get in her way. Maybe her mother had let her down her entire life, but she isn't going to let G.T down for the life he had left.
Know try to think what would you do in Hope's shoes, with the responsibility of conceding a dying man his last wish, but also, satisfying the town, when you are only 15 years old? It's a hard one isn't it? So find out what Hope does and how this changes her life from feeling an orphan to feeling the luckiest girl in the world.
I think the author wants us to see and feel the goodness in our hearts, to appreciate what we have, and to also search in every sad face or tear the heart, soul, and mind that lives within it, like a never-ending fire.
There are lies, cheating, love, romance, family and friendship all put together to make up this wonderful novel.
There is no gender in this book and its probably ages 10 and up.
I recommend this book to all teenagers that feel nobody understand them, or what they are going through.
Read and enjoy.
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Summary: Sometimes what you are looking for is right there
Review: Hope has been looking for her father, who she doesn't even know, as she and her aunt Addie move from one town to the next.
Hope has to face the small town midwest in a Wisconsin cafe, and she isn't really too excited about yet another move, especially from New York City to Mulhoney Wisconsin. Add to this the fact that G.T. Stoop, suffering from leukemia and the cafe owner, has just declared his candidacy against a long-serving and apparently corrupt mayor, and the stage is set for a coming of age story with a twist. As Hope begins waitressing in the restaurant, she learns, as small town waitresses often do, all about the people in her new town. Some of what she learns gets her excited enough to start working on G.T.'s mayoral campaign. The campaign is the backdrop against which Hope comes to terms with her constant moves in life, her wayward mother who visits on her on a whim, and Braverman, the grill cook who moves from a 7.5 on the "guy scale" to close to 9 in short order! In the midst of all this, Hope yearns to find and know her father, and in a surprising and sweet twist at the end, her search ends, but not at all in the way she or the reader expects. When so much of the fiction written for this age group lately seems full of angst and dark themes, "Hope Was Here" is a breath of fresh air; witty, clever and not at all saccharin, with enough in the way of "grown up" themes to appeal to older adolescent readers, yet allowing those same readers to have what the heroine's name has always suggested--hope.
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Summary: A pretty good book
Review: This book was a pretty good book. With the owner of the restaraunt having leukimia, and trying to acomplish something good before he dies. So he runs for mayor and gets elected.
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Summary: Can you say sappy?
Review: Beware, the good reviews that this book has gotten have been honest, but too forgiving. Hope is sometimes an unbelievable teenager trying to do it all. ... Hope is constantly trying to save the world. Another note is that this book is too short, 186 pages is not enough to develope the complicated plot that the author attempted. I think 30 more pages would be satisfactory. Although I thought that the characters were intriguing, I also thought they needed more faults. The story is very satisfying, but sometimes more should be expected.
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Summary: Delicious-A Real Treat
Review: Hope was Here is a book about a girl named Hope who lives with her aunt addie and travels from state to state waitressing.Some boys may take one look at the word waitressing and run for their lives expecting some girly girly book, but i as a boy can assure you it is not.It is a very good book filled with comedy,spirit, and a very slight touch of romance.It is a book worthy of the Newbery Medal it recieved.
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