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Summary: One Beautiful book
Review: Thank you Adam Rapp for a truly touching novel. A book about true friendship even during the most trying times...I loved this book and I too, love that kid.
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Summary: buffaloing
Review: The book is a very boring book. But it has some scenes that are very interesting such as when the guys were in the shower and Boo and Hodge stabbed Demetrius Gord with a pencil. This book shows what happens when you go to juvy hall where you get treated like a prisoner. The boys have no freedom to do what they want or have fun. Some of the characters who were in the story such as Boo, Hodge, Long Neck and Coly Jo were very well played in the scenes that the author put them in. At the end of the story something very bad happens to a main character. I would recommend this book to people who like depressing stories.
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Summary: buffaloing
Review: The book is a very boring book. But it has some scenes that are very interesting such as when the guys were in the shower and Boo and Hodge stabbed Demetrius Gord with a pencil. This book shows what happens when you go to juvy hall where you get treated like a prisoner. The boys have no freedom to do what they want or have fun. Some of the characters who were in the story such as Boo, Hodge, Long Neck and Coly Jo were very well played in the scenes that the author put them in. At the end of the story something very bad happens to a main character. I would recommend this book to people who like depressing stories.
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Summary: The Buffalo Tree
Review: The book is narrated by Sura, a 13 year old boys who is in hamstock, a juvenile detetion center. The book had some great lessons about life such as that friendship will never die and you should never give it up. It has alot of painful things such as when Sura found the squirrel tail buried in the ground, because it belonged to Coly Jo's, his friend. It also had some action such as when Sura was shadowing the guard and he almost got caught by the gaurd. The story was kind of hard to understand because of all of the slang invovled. It had alot of funny parts in the story too, such as when Sura was talking about Nurse Rushing and how Sura was making fun of Boo, Hodge, and Dean Petty. This book had alot of profanity and some were funny and others weren't. This book had alot of depressing moments too, like when Coly Jo was put in the stink hole. Coly Jo was a great friend to Sura. I really enjoyed this story and I would recommend this book to any teenager to read.
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Summary: The Buffalo Tree
Review: The Buffalo Tree is about kids who were sent to juvenile hall (Hamstock). There was a kid Sura who was 13 years old and Coly Jo who was 12 years old. This book taught me a lot about juvenile detention centers. There you are treated with no respect. There are no doors on the rooms that they sleep in. There are many slang words you need to learn. The problem in this book is trying to stay alive which is hard because no one cares for you. There were a lot of instances of intimidation especially to inmates. Coly Jo was sent to the stink hole. It is where you go for doing something very bad while you are there. It is a small dark room,there is one bed and a bucket for a toilet. Coly Jowas Sura's roommate. Sura was planing to run away with Coly Jo until something interfered. This was a very powerful book about kids getting in trouble.
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Summary: An amazing story from a Great Author
Review: This book was amazing. Rapp does an amazing job of depictingthestrory through words. His writing is understandable and Sura's voicefeels real and believeable. Sura is a very well-developed character.This book picks you up with the first line and hurls you into an beautiful story until the last word.
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Summary: most boring book ever
Review: This was a very boring book. But I do have to say it does have some high points. In the beginning it was boring but toward the end it started to get better. The reason it was boring is because I didn't understand the slang words at first. But as I did, it got better and easier. I learned some new street words such as cripped, patch, patchmate, and cottage pops. One boring part of this book was when Sura got a new roommate, because they didn't fight or anything. And a few high points were when Coly Jo hit Mr. Rose over the head with a night table and the other one was when hodge and long neck got in a fight. Over all it was interesting to a point. I can honestly say I did learn something from this book.
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Summary: A haunting, lyrical story.
Review: When twelve-year-old Sura got caught clipping hoodies, they slapped with a six-month sentence in Hamstock, a juvenile detention center. Most juvenile detention centers keep you until you've reformed. At Hamstock, they keep you until they feel like letting you go.This book, written in the language of the street, details Sura serving time at the center with his patch mate and best friend Coly Jo, who got sent up for breaking into people's homes to watch them sleep. As Sura somehow breaks through the mire and rises to the top, Coly Jo is beaten down both physically and emotionally. At the end Sura is set free, and has learned to appreciate life at home with his mother, though I doubt he'll be there for long. An excellent novel, once you learn to decipher the street slang. Not that the slang is bad; it adds to the credibility of the story and I learned lots of new words.
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Summary: Here are just a few thoughts about THE BUFFALO TREE.
Review: With Sura I was interested in exploring a voice. A kind of hybrid of hip-hop, a street song, a kind of vocal jazz that I've heard on the basektball courts of Tomkins Square Park, on the stoops of the East Tenth Street Boys Club, and in the juvenile home and Military Academy where I lived for a few months at the age of eleven and for four years of high school. For me, the most important thing about Sura's voice is that the rhythms, inflections, the crudeness of his posed toughness and his sudden flights of tenderness -- that all of its music emerge from his broken world, which is a world of absent mothers and fathers; a world of cracked pavement and clipped hood ornaments; a world where young men make up words in order to ascribe their own government of survival. Hamstock is a place where men fail boys and boys who are on the twilight of becoming men fail each other. To me it is Sura's voice and his love for Coly Jo -- perhaps their love for each other -- their need to connect -- that transcends the fence. Unfortunately, I don't think I have any answers, and I doubt that there are any to be found in the book. Through the sadder moments of the story, I hope you find warmth and humor in Sura's journey. I hope you find a friend.
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