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Summary: A Wonderful Story for All Ages
Review: I first read this book as a young adult...and then, as a neighbor to the Chesapeake/Eastern Shore community and as a young female with a sister very close to my own age, I was able to relate very much to the story of Caroline and Louise. IT evoked such true emotion and the certain turmoil that can arise from sibling rivalry. "Jacob Have I Loved" quickly became one of my favorite novels. And I read it many times during those young adult years. Even now as an adult, I pick it up to read occasionally...and as a new educator am considering using the book in my classroom. It's a book you can continue to come back to and can learn much from.
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Summary: The book isn't a favorite of mine, but for some it might be.
Review: JACOB HAVE I LOVED was mildly enjoyable, but once I was through with it I realized that it was corny and timeworn. It is not worthy of the Newbery.
Rating: 
Summary: An excellent book about how I think, many siblings feel.
Review: Children of all ages, even teenagers, should read this book because I think many of us kids can relate to the way "Wheeze" feels about her sister.
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Summary: What a strong, meaningful book!
Review: What a wonderful book! I thought that this was definitely one of the best books I have ever read. I think it was aimed at someone a little older than eleven, and maybe someone
who understands the bible more than me, but I still thought
it was a wonderful novel. Each feeling of each character was described so deeply, and poetically. And the tension
grips you so hard in the end, that the book seems to stop too abruptly.
It is not action tension though. It is tension from staying with the characters so long that you are beginning to see forward
in the book. One thing I did not like was the last sentence. I am sure if you understood it, which I didn't, it was probably very meaningful. And even though I didn't
understand it, I think it ended the story well, and the
story ended like I hoped it would.-Katharine Manning,
American School In Japan, 6th grade.
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Summary: Very good!
Review: This book shows what it it truly like to be a twin. Not all fun and games. I read this book for school, and wished I had read it before I read it in 7th grade. I recomend it for any age
Rating:
Summary: A wonderful, powerfully written book!
Review: Jocob Have I Loved is a wonderful book about twins who don't
get along. One is pretty, talented, delicate and everything that a lady should be,while the other is not as pretty, untalented,
hearty, and acts like a man by bringing in traps and helping with "men's" jobs. Kit, the unpopular twin is rejected by her sister Caroline (the popular one) and especially her
grandmother. Life seems to laugh in Kit's face and help Caroline along. The reason for this is because Caroline's life is considered a miracle because at birth she wasn't
breathing. Later, justice prevails in a tricky way and Kit sees deja vu in her future career.
This was a very powerful book, as real as our lives
at this very second. The characters have very distinct personalities
and seem as real as you and me. The author is a wonderful writer and her stories are so powerful and so real that you feel
as if you could reach out and touch them. For this book,
I give it googooplex stars!!!
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Summary: Disappointing and Depressing
Review: I read this book and was greatly disappointed throughout. It was depressing and extremely annoying. This book is inappropriate for young teenagers, especially when the main character, Sara Louise, lusts for a 70 year old man. Disgusting.The ending did not make up for the long, long, drawn-out torture of enduring the main character's pain and hatred. The supposed happy ending made no sense considering what a messed-up teenager she was. The last 2 chapters tried to tie things up nicely to make the reader feel relieved that the main character grew up and made a good life for herself. However, those chapters have little relationship to the rest of the book. How did she magically get over her hatred of her sister and herself? Just by yelling at her mother, she is suddenly cured? I do not recommend this book. I'm still wondering why it received a Newbery Medal.
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Summary: Depressing and NOT A BOOK FOR CHILDREN!
Review: I read this book at the young age of 13 and it had a terrible impression on me. It made me afraid to grow up, and I felt continuelly depressed about the blant favoritism shown by the girls parents.
If I was their parents I would not have kept that crazy and wicked grandmother around I don't care who she is. She went out of her way to hurt Louise. That's just plain wicked.
I also found Louise's sudden interest in being a doctor quite unbelieveable. She had never mentioned anything like that before and I just found it innane.
I also found it disturbing that they had her falling in love with someone so much older then herself. Children can't look at that and make any sense of it. It was so embrassing to me that i didn't tell my parents till years later how uncomfortable I felt about it.
I would never recommond this book to anyone ever! Certainly never for children and certainly not for anyone else.
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Summary: Jacob Have I Loved
Review: I read this book and was greatly disappointed throughout. It was depressing and extremely annoying. This book is inappropriate for young teenagers, especially when the main character, Sara Louise, lusts for a 70 year old man. Disgusting. The ending did not make up for the long, long, drawn-out torture of enduring the main character's pain and hatred. The supposed happy ending made no sense considering what a messed-up teenager she was. The last 2 chapters tried to tie things up nicely to make the reader feel relieved that the main character grew up and made a good life for herself. However, those chapters have little relationship to the rest of the book. How did she magically get over her hatred of her sister and herself? Just by yelling at her mother, she is suddenly cured? I do not recommend this book. I'm still wondering why it received a Newbery Medal.
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Summary: Redemption
Review: The book covers probably about a decade of time and is from the POV of an older twin sister. The thick teenage angst of this book detracts from the more interesting stories of Captain Hiram, Auntie Braxton, the dementia of the protagonist's grandmother, Call and Caroline. Until I read the last two chapters, I was going to rate this book lower but these chapters, the last one especially, give the protagonist a chance to mature and redeem herself.
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