Toning the Sweep

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Summary: Toning the Sweep
Review: Toning the Sweep is about Emily, a rebellious young adult who lives with her family in Ohio. However, the story is set in the desert where Emily's Grandma, Ola, lives. Unlike her mother, Emily loves the desert and is devoted to Ola and their annual trip to the desert is the highlight of her year. When Ola becomes ill with cancer, in their concern for Ola's health, Emily's family decides to have Ola come and live with them in Ohio. In her last summer in the desert,Emily makes a videotape of the desert for Ola and in the process finds out about her family history and the tradgic death of her Grandfather. I enjoyed this book because I think that it is well-writen and I admired the way that Ola is dying with grace in the story.

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Review: Toning the sweep was a very good book about life.I didn'think i would learn anything from this book. The book tought me that ever one has inner secrets,that don't want ever one to know but they just are scared of there secerts. Her grandmother had a secrect but ever one knew about it i think she wanted ever one to know so that she colud have everone's help. She had help and she knew were it was it was in her family i think it was nice of here daughter to let her live with her. I think the diana justneed to catch up with her mother, and she wanted her daughter to learn more about her mother and to have her mother and daughter to spend time together.so she colud learn more about her faily histoy, i think that is why she was video tape was for i don't think it was more than a tape for her grandmother buti i help her get to know her grand mother.

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Review: Toning the Sweep, by Angela Johnson, in my opinion, was not an exciting book. It
did not catch my attention. There was no climax in the plot. The only dramatic
thing is Ola's pain, which is not too interesting because people go through pain all
the time. David and Martha's character's purposes were not apparent to me.
There were many parts I did not understand. I would not recommend this book to
anyone I know. I would not have chosen to read this book for pleasure. In the end,
when Mama (Diane) and Emily, her daughter, tone the sweep together to send
Emily's grandpapa's spirit to heaven. It seems too late but at least they can finally
be pacified with it. The plot in this book was rather vague.

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Review: Toning the Sweep
The book is about a fourteen-year old girl named Emmie dealing with the fact her grandmother is dying of cancer. Emmie becomes very confused by the change in her family and was too young to understand what was going on.
The book is very hard to understand becaues it jumps from place to place and character to character. The chapters don't seem to flow into one another and it made it hard for me to follow. I would not recommend this book to anyone to read. There is no action in it and it didn't keep my attention.
I think that someone in the 5th or 6th grade might like this book or if you like to read journal writing you may like this book.

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Summary: sweeping the tone
Review: Ty Parrish Bill Keeney Toning The Sweep Engilsh 10a Nov. 14,2000 Toning The Sweep, written by Angela Johnson, is a book about a girl's life who has to move from place to place and has had some loss in her time. Emily (main character) is a young girl at the age of 14 and has a pretty boring life. Ola (grandmother) makes the family move because of deaths in the family and hurt feelings. I think Toning The Sweep was kind of boring but had some good points about young people's lives. Emily has to deal with this death, and in doing so, she learns about the desert. I liked the fact that she is in the desert but I felt this book was missing something. I thought it should have some bigger climax scene. The climax scene was boring and I didn't care what happened to this character. Even though she has a dramatic life, it is still very boring and unsatisfying.

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Summary: The not so good story of a girl, her mother and grandmother
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I thought that Toning the Sweep was a good quick read if you are able to deal with boring chapters where nothing really ground breaking or important happens. If I had had a choice I would not have read this book at all. I think if I had to rate it on a scale of 1 to 5 I would give it a 2 since it wasn't that that good of a book in my opinion. I kept waiting for the book to get good but it never did =(!

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