The Last Safe Place on Earth

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Summary: Okay
Review: The writing style is excellent, the characters are well created, and the story itself is believable. The only problem is that some parts are boring, like the haunted house scene.

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Summary: this book is interesting!!
Review: this book kept me wanting to read.
This family moved out of their town that they were in to get out of the misery they had in it. They moved to a town they thought was going to be different. It was different until they found out that the sitter they have had for their daughter Marnie was telling her that witches were real, and were getting things in her head about them. Like they were real and they will come and get you. Marnie has always loved halloween until the sitter was telling her that stuff. Marnie was changing drastically, she was changing in a bad way. She was always in her room all by herself every night and every day. The family got worried and had to think of something to do.
This book was interesting to read. I liked it

Rating:
Summary: this book is interesting!!
Review: this book kept me wanting to read.
This family moved out of their town that they were in to get out of the misery they had in it. They moved to a town they thought was going to be different. It was different until they found out that the sitter they have had for their daughter Marnie was telling her that witches were real, and were getting things in her head about them. Like they were real and they will come and get you. Marnie has always loved halloween until the sitter was telling her that stuff. Marnie was changing drastically, she was changing in a bad way. She was always in her room all by herself every night and every day. The family got worried and had to think of something to do.
This book was interesting to read. I liked it

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Summary: very good
Review: this book really made me aware of evil in the world, and how even though something looks nice and civilized, it can be bad. the way that laurel made the little girl into a brainwashed weirdo when she babysat was a great plot twist. i give this book a nine instead of a ten because the story never really ended. i didnt feel the sense of closure that i always feel when i finish a book.

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Summary: mind boggling and fun
Review: This book teaches people about the different thoughts and religions of other people. This book shows how personal thoughts and beliefs can tear apart friends, and even family. In the book, Todd, a high school sophomore, carries on a normal life. He goes to school, works, fights with his siblings, and does teenage things. Then, Laurel comes to babysit his little sister Marnie. Todd thinks she is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Laurel begins to talk to Marnie about what is bad and good, and what will get her to heaven. Laurel tells her that Halloween is bad and involves witches and demons. Marnie had been looking forward to Halloween because she was making her own witch costume. Marnie begins to become frightened by what Laurel is telling her and tells her parents. This brings about a lot of problems within the community. The book ends in a peaceful way with Todd realizing know one is perfect, and everybody is different. I give this book three stars because I really enjoyed reading it, and learned about different religious beliefs.

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Summary: The Last Safe Place on Earth
Review: Todd, the main character in the book is in tenth grade. Everyone in his town thinks they live in a picture perfect town and community. They soon realize that not everything is what it seems. They also find out that outside forces are not going to stop influencing their towns and their children. Todd's little sister starts getting horrible nightmares and wakes up screaming in the night. The parents think that removing all the bad books from the library will eliminate the nightmares and influences that books, TV/media have on kids. It is a story about censorship and trying to keep kids in a "bubble" away from the rest of the world. I enjoyed this book because it was easy to understand and it was a good mystery and suspenseful book.

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Summary: The Last Safe Place on Earth
Review: Todd, the main character in the book is in tenth grade. Everyone in his town thinks they live in a picture perfect town and community. They soon realize that not everything is what it seems. They also find out that outside forces are not going to stop influencing their towns and their children. Todd's little sister starts getting horrible nightmares and wakes up screaming in the night. The parents think that removing all the bad books from the library will eliminate the nightmares and influences that books, TV/media have on kids. It is a story about censorship and trying to keep kids in a 'bubble' away from the rest of the world. I enjoyed this book because it was easy to understand and it was a good mystery and suspenseful book.

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Summary: Is anyplace safe from censorship?
Review: Welcome to Tranquility Lane in Walden Woods. The Tobins, a respectable, church-going family moved here after a knife fight broke out in their children's middle school. The picture perfect town and community appeared to be "the last safe place on earth." For fifteen-year-old Todd Tobin, life is really looking up. Not only has he come around to being normal at school by "working real hard to be noticed without being different," but the beautiful new girl, Laurel Kellerman, is to be his little sister Marnie's regular baby sitter. Everything seems perfect this Halloween season until it is discovered that Laurel is a fundamentalist Christian who, in an attempt to steer Marnie onto what she sees as the righteous path, traumatizes and turns the little girl against her parents with talk of witches and devils. Laurel's family is part of a religious group who wishes, not only to ban the traditions of Halloween, but to censor books from the high school curricula. (They say Anne Frank's diary, should be removed simply because it "clearly asserts all religions are equally valid") As always, Peck's narrator, Todd is as likeable as he is witty. His self-effacing humor draws the reader in so that you can't help trusting him. (One of his memorable lines: 'My technique with girls needs work.' 'Work? It needs government funding.') It is through Todd's diligent affection for Laurel that Peck makes it possible for the reader to sympathize with even Laurel's family. Through Todd, we see that they are not just bad people, they are vulnerable and troubled victims of their own narrow mindedness.