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Summary: Good use of vocabulary and wording. Very good! Love it!!!!!
Review: Personally this is the best book I've ever read. The use of vocabulary and woringing is excellent! All girls and even boys ages 10-15 should read this funny yet serious book. I think everyone can relate somehow.
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Summary: It was a great realistic book about young teens.
Review: Rachel had many problems but she couldn't learn to deal with them or let her friends help her. She's somewhat alienated because of her high grades, but she needs comfort. Things finally work out with her and her two best friends. This is a great easy going book for middle schooler's like myself!
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Summary: Swell sequel!
Review: Rachel reminds me of Stacey McGill from the BSC with a touch of Mary Anne(also from the BSC). Rachel is a math whiz like Stacey and has trouble relaxing like Mary Anne. She's dealing with her loud, obnoxious brother being back home from boarding school and her mother Nell is worried sick about him. Rachel ends up worrying about her mother. I liked how her friends Stephanie and Alison stood by her. Like Mary Anne, Rachel's friends tease her about being nervous. Also Rachel often feels self-conscious about her high grades and being a math whiz around kids who often ridicule "nerds." This book ranks up there with "Just as Long as We're Together."
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Summary: Sibling Rivalry
Review: Rachel Robinson is too perfect - I like her less than her best friend Stephanie Hirsch, along with Steph's friend Alison. She is incredibly gifted and astoundingly bright. Here's to You... was derived from a line Rachel's brother, supreme troublemaker, Charles, said out of anger.Here's to You... picks up where Just as Long as... left off. With the cliff-hanger ending of the prequel, we find that the best friendship between Steph and Rachel was never really fully repaired, basically due to Alison's arrival. "I can tell they prefer each other's company to mine," Rachel laments. Still, Steph and Rachel are good friends. If Charles is Rachel's main problem, and it seems as though he is, she should seriously consider herself lucky. Her family was happy until he arrived home, expelled from his boarding school. Before that, it was just Rachel, Mr and Mrs. Robinson, and Rachel's sister, Jessica. As we come to know Charles, we come to understand why Rachel almost seems to fear the 14 year-old. He has a mean streak. He honestly seems to get joy out of making his family miserable. Jess, who has a serious case of acne so bad that it is often painful, is able to live her life normally and have friends, which Rachel strongly admires. Charles cruelly asks, "Do they still call you Pizza Face or Jess the Mess?" Jess flees the room in tears. When Rachel is concerned, he teases her about being so smart in school. "The child prodigy speaks!" he trills in feigned shock. Charles also teases her about not having friends and when Steph and Alison show up, he shamelessly flirts with them. Oddly enough, no one really sees how wicked Charles is outside the Robinson household. His girlfriend Dana thinks he's sweet and gentle and asks Rachel "to please stop acting like such a bitch!" Charles instantly becomes popular. I think that because of his bad boy image, people are drawn to him. But that image is truly a front. Inside, he is a troubled young boy. His parents are at their wits end on what to do about him. Although this book addresses less issues than some of Blume's novels, I don't believe authors necessarily need to look for those types of things to constantly discuss. I preferred Just as Long as... but this book was by no means a letdown. Rachel does, however, have a much easier life than many Blume characters. A troublemaking brother shouldn't get in the way of Rachel's knowing she is truly lucky and blessed with parents who love her and each other, as well as perfect grades in school.
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Summary: A Book for Younger Kids
Review: Rachel Robinson is what everyone would call a perfect student. Even though she is only in seventh grade, she will be going to college for extra classes and is a role model to all students. She is the student, teachers recommend for special activities and never gets into trouble. Anything under an A is unheard of for her high standards.
Her life is not as perfect as it may seem though. Her older brother, Charles, just got kicked our of another school without passing the ninth grade for the third time. He is now home permanently, causing Rachel and her entire family to feel stressed. Charles is a troublemaker and Rachel definitely does not want him around.
All of Rachel's friends think Charles is the brother they have to impress and just do not see how much of a pain he really is. Rachel has to practically drag them away from him. Charles' room is always filled with people drinking and just hanging out without their parents knowing anything about it. Charles' tutor is the only person he will actually listen to and can not survive in regular school. Listening to his parents' requests to stop teasing his sisters and to be civil around the family is unheard of.
Having a fammily consisting of a wimp of a father, an ice-queen of a mother, a potato headed sister, and herself referred to as her mom's clone according to Charles is more than any of her family can bear with on a daily basis. (spoiler)
I would recommend this b ook for younger students. The plot is rather boring with no excitement. It drags on about the same events, which are not very interesting in the first place. A younger reader may enjoy it because of the easy to follow plot. Each of the characters are very simple and ordinary. Overall, the book was just an easy reader with no challenge to it
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Summary: An excellent read!
Review: Read this book! Even if you don't usually like Judy Blume's stories, this is a good one. Rachel's a straight A student, who is also gifted at music. She ends up with problems, though, because her teachers expect her to participate in more activities than she can cope with. And then there's Charles, her brother, who is a total pain. At the same time she's trying to stay friends with Alison and Steph. What can she do? The only problem I found with this book is that there is no real solution - the end isn't that good. But I think it's worth reading anyway, because the storyline is quite interesting. I particularly liked it because I could easily relate to the girl in the story. Apart from a few problems, fantastic!
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Summary: ''Here's to you Rachel Robinson''is the best book ever
Review: Sammy O. 12/01/04
Here's to you Rachel Robinson, Judy Blume, 0-531-06801-3
" Trouble in our family is spelt with a capital C and has been as long as I can remember. The C stands for Charles." You might be thinking, now who is this Charles and I would say to read exactly what is in the first sentence. The book, Here's to you Rachel Robinson is based upon a thirteen-year-old girl whose brother is nothing but trouble. It takes place during the year 2004, now, at school and at home. This book all started when Charles got sent to boarding school in Virginia. After that everything just went downhill for the Robinson's. Then Charles came home, Rachel, the main character, is already a worrywart. When Charles comes home she's an even bigger worrywart. So this whole story is about the life of Rachel and her older brother Charles and the ups and downs of their life. The genre of this book could be realistic fiction because it could happen in real life, but it is non fiction because it didn't really happen, it's just a made up.
This book isn't what I'm used to reading for a free read book, but I liked it a lot. This book had humor and suspense, which is everything I like in a book. This book is great for 13-15 year old girls because it has many problems that girls face today (Boys, brothers, boyfriend's etc). Judy Blume, the author, made this book very enjoyable. Her style of writing I much like because she writes as if Rachel is standing right next to you telling her story. I felt like I connected to Rachel and my brother to Charles. The only difference is I'm older than my brother. We argue constantly and get each other mad usually on purpose. This book was a page-turner, usually, sometimes I just wanted to stop reading because it wasn't very interesting and other times I didn't want to stop because I wanted to see what happened to the characters.
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Summary: A story that explains how all pre-teens have problems
Review: This book is a great story that really explains how ALL pre-teens to teens have problems. Whether it is family problems, such as your parents splitting up or your brother being a pain in the butt, or problems with your friends, such as worrying that they don't like you anymore. The three main characters, Rachel, Stephanie, and Allison all have one or more of these problems. Rachel, (the main character) is having problems with her brother, Charles. Stephanie's parents just split up and her mother is dating again. And Allison's mother has re-married and is pregnant with a second child. As you read this story you will laugh, and you may cry. Judy Blume did an excellent job with making her characterse so realistic.
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Summary: One of my favorite books
Review: This book is great. It is about Rachel Robinson, a junior high perfectionist who is getting fed up trying to be perfect. The book is about her friends, her crushes, and her family life. It is a great book about teens growing up.
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Summary: SMASHING!
Review: THIS BOOK WAS SO GREAT THAT I BORROWED MY SISTER'S HANDS TO GIVE IT FOUR THUMBS UP.
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