What Jamie Saw

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Summary: WHO WOULD READ THIS BOOK
Review: I didn't like this book very well. T thought it was pretty bad. I also thought it was a little slow for my tastes. This book was about Jamie see's his mom's boyfriend throw Jamie's baby sister and his mom caught it. They move to her mom's friend's trailer and end up living there and Jamie's mom gets a job at IGA. they live by themselves and the boyfriend comes and Jamie and his mom tell him to leave and that's pretty much it.

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Summary: Sad and Happy All Together!
Review: I have enjoyed What Jamie Saw so far because the book is funny and kids can learn from it. Jamie is a nine-year-old boy who has a mom named Patty and a baby sister named Nin. Van is a friend of theirs who is very mean and has a mother named Agnes. She babysits for Patty when she needs her to. Agnes and Van don't get along very well. This is all I am going to tell you because this is all I know so far because I am not done reading the book. So it will be a little hard to tell you the rest. I also don't want to tell you any more because then it won't be that fun to read. So I well let you read the book and find out for yourself what happens at the end. I hope that I have not told you too much information because I really don't want to ruin the good book for you. You better start reading so you can learn more and just enjoy reading it. HOPE YOU ENJOY THE BOOK!!!!! I gave this book 4 stars because I am not done with it and I don't know how it will end!!

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Summary: What Jamie Saw
Review: Jamie was a little boy that saw his step-dad throw his little sister because she was crying. After this happened Jamies life was never the same because he dreamed about the accident in his sleep or even when he would be sitting around. Jamie and his mother and little sister moved that night when the accident happened. THey moved to a place in New Hampsire to live with one of his mothers friends. His family gets a little trailer on an old logging road, his family is very poor and she depends on her friend Earl to help them make it.

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Summary: The book was a little borring. There was hardly any action.
Review: The book "What Jamie Saw" was about a boy named Jamie, his mom, his sister Nin, and his dad Van. Van gets mad and throws Nin across the room. Then Jamie's mom takes them all to find a trailer in the middle of nowhere. It is very cold and small. I did not think this book was very good. There was hardly any action.

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Summary: What Jamie Saw
Review: The book I read was What Jamie Saw .I enjoyed the book for many reasons. The main reason I enjoyed the book was that it had a good story line that was very easy to follow. I felt the author did a good job writing the story, yet the author could have possibly used the character Van a little more. I feel the book reflects people's lives more than I know because in the book Van drank and hurt the baby. All in all I would recommend What Jamie Saw because of its content and how it was written. I can understand why it has been on the following book lists: Newbery Honor Book, 1996 National Book award finalist, ALA Notable Book, and Booklist Editors Choice. This selection is a good book for older readers and is a very enjoyable book.

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Summary: Weaking Writing
Review: There was no intensity or action I had come to expect from this difficult story's situation...but come on...a little more description would have scared readers and left them more intrigued. I found _Bruises_ to be a much more powerful and poetic book.

What Jamie saw just tells what this little boy sees, not what he experiences, which is the real reader grasper here.

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Summary: This book deals with child abuse.
Review: This book deals with the abusive behavior within a family. The family consists of a mother: Patty, a father: Van, a step-son of Van's: Jamie a 3rd grader, and a daughter of Van's: Nin a baby. Jamie wittnesses his step-father Van throwing his step-sister Nin across the room. His mother, Patty, immediately takes the children out of the house. It's freezing cold, December and Christmas is nearning. She is careful to bring warm clothes and blankets. She also brought the children's toys as well as Jamie's magic book. Jamie loves to perform magic.

A friend Earl helps them by giving them an old trailer in the woods to live in. The trailer has very little comforts. Patty has very little money. Jamie is kept out of school for several days while he and his mother cope with their situation. Patty tries to make ends meet by working part-time at the local A&P gorcery store. Jamie's teacher comes to find out why he's not in school and how she can help. She offers to keep! Jamie after school on Tuesdays so Patty can attend a self-help group.

The devestated family has very little to eat let alone spend on Christmas. Patty wants to make their Christmas enjoyable but can't afford to buy to much. The family decorates a small pine tree outside their trailer with makeshift oranments. Also, their friend Earl comes just before Christmas and brings a few gifts for them. Jamie gets a pair of ice skates. Earl and Jamie skate on a nearby pond. They have wonderful time. For a moment Jamie forgets his pain, forgets what he saw.

Jamie is sadden by his situation and lives in constant terror that Van will find them and hurt Nin. Jamie loves Nin and his mother and wants the pain to stop. Van locates the family and comes to make peace with them one day when Jamie is left alone to tend to Nin. Jamie is frieghtened that Van will break in the trailer door and hurt or possibly kill them. In desperation he hides a sleeping Nin under the only bed in the trailer, ! being careful not to wake her, for he fears her cries may a! lert Van to their presences. Van comes into the trailer and Jamie tries to act as if Nin isn't there. Jamie now fears that his mother will come home and Van will hurt her too, so he tries to distract Van by showing him magic tricks. Jamie loves to perform magic. His mother Patty comes home and finds Van in the trailer with her children. She demands that Van leave them alone. He leaves without incident and this is when Jamie, Nin, and Patty realize that they made the right the choice to leave a bad situation.

This book is heartwarming, but only at the end. It is descriptive when outlining the abusive situation; therefore, I recommend that a parent or teacher be present to answer any questions a child may have. Child abuse it something that is ever present in out society and must be dealt with. This book can faciliate a meaningful decision on the topic. Their is so much more to this book. It's only a 126 pages, but it says a lot. Enjoy!!!

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Summary: What Jamie Saw
Review: THis book has a lot of emotional fellings in it. THe mood is very powerful and and can be suspenseful at times.

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Summary: So Stupid
Review: This book is not even close to what happens in real live because a mother is not going to walk in the room at the same time her baby is being thrown across the room and catch it. I think that would be impossible also this book starts off really weird you would need to read the whole book to understand the beginning of this book. This book was a waste of my time!.

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Summary: There were a lot of problems and not all of them were solved
Review: This book's story was about a young child named Jamie. He was involed in a family crisis. Our opinion is that this book was average. We would have liked to see more action. It was a good book but it just didn't click. It got confusing because it's intensity was like a roller coaster ride. Each problem was short and not well detailed. Just because it got a Newbery Award doesn't mean it's great.