Somewhere in the Darkness

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Summary: "Somewhere in the Darkness" doesn't make a lot of sense
Review: When I picked up this book, I figured it would be as entertaining and insightful as Myers' other works (like Scorpions). However, I found this book to have a weak plot and other flaws. The conflict was never really resolved in the book. How it ever became a Newbery honor book is beyond me. One plus was that this book uses realistic dialogue. However, this one thing could not save the book as a whole. Let's just say that "Somewhere in the Darkness" will leave you there; in the darkness and confused.

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Summary: Somewhere out There
Review: When Jimmy come home from school he finds a man outside his house that turns out to be his father. His father had come to take him to Chicago, but Mama Jean his care taker doesn't want him to go. But Jimmy goes with his father anyways. On the way there Jimmy asked him where he had been al these years. His father told him he had been to jail. When Jimmy asked him what he did, his father told him that he had been in jail, but that he was innocent. Jimmy and Crab continue traveling to meet a friend of Crabs to find out why he did not tell the police that Crqab was innocent. What happened on the way there will change their lives forever. This book has lots of drama. This book would appeal more to boys or kids who wonder about a parent they never met.