Forbidden City

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Summary: Forbidden City
Review: This book was assigned to me this year to read by my grade 9 World Cultures teacher. I looked at the cover and it looked like a book completely about war and artillery and other things that seemed completely uninteresting to me - by the tank going down the street and the civilians running away. Basically, the old adage comes into play here - don't judge a book by its cover. This book (novel) is amazing, when my mother read my book report I had to do on it, she told me she remembered this incident in 1989 in Beijing, China. Alex Johnson and his father who works for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto are invited on a trip to China to get pictures of a conference the Chinese officials are having, and when a famous Chinese man dies, there is an uproar and many of the Chinese citizens hold a protest right outside Alex's hotel. In the meanwhile, sixteen year old Alex makes a Chinese friend. The protests get more and more violent... what will happen to Alex and his father? Will they get back to Toronto safely?

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Summary: what to Exspect
Review: well the story I read, I thought was great. This book is called Forbidden City.This book is about these two people that is going to film an event. well two of the character named Alexander Jackson and his dad goes to Beijing to do a report on the event. His dad does this and is risking his life as well as his son. Alex was a history freak, he collected soldiers in his basement.well they traveled to where they were going and it didn't turn out the way they expected. When they got there it was ok until the event was going on. They took out tanks and killed people. While this happened alex witness his chinese friend's death. well through this event he recorded it and when it was over his father didn't know his son recorded it. Well one month after the incident chen xi tong the mayor of Beijing submitted his report to the politburo of the communist party of china.

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Summary: The Best book a teacher made you read.
Review: When I frist started to read Forbidden City, It didn't seem that all interesting. It seemed lame and slow. But since we had to read it, I read ahead. I ended up finishing the book when the rest of the class was on pg. 60. The book really develops and is a great way to show teenagers what happened then, since it's through the eyes of a teen. You should definietly read this book, I have, and liked it a lot.

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Summary: A great and gripping read!!!!
Review: When my english teacher gave out this book, i thought it would be a boring read (by looking at the title) and put the book away for 2 weeks. One night i started reading it and could not stop!!! i just kept reading till it ended.!! what a sad ended... Buy this book, if you want to have a great time.