Stotan!

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Summary: Stotan Review
Review: Stotan was a book about four friends, Nortie,Walker,Lion and Jeff. Throughout this book they go through many hardships that a lot of teens today go through. The four friends were on a swim team together and for their season conditioning, their coach created "Stotan Week." They went through some really tough times during stotan week, but that would only prepare for the other hard times to follow!!!

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Summary: STOTAN!
Review: STOTAN! is an exceptional book for teen and adult readers alike. Chris Crutcher is an amazing writer, who, as a counselor, has obviously had quite a bit of interaction with troubled teens. This book is about 4 friends who endure stotan week together; not only building up their own physical strength and stamina, but also learning about frienships and relationships, and dealing with cancer, racism, and physical abuse. Chris Crutcher does a fine job of writing a book about 'tougher' issues, yet keeping the book amusing. If you enjoyed this book, I strongly reccomend Crutcher's other books, including "Chinese Handcuffs".

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Summary: Reality Stretch
Review: The book 'Stotan' starts off with a swimming team practicing to become Stotans or a cross Stoic and a Spartan. There is a wild love twist between the main character, Walker, Deveene, and Walker's best girl friend Elaine (girl friend as in a friend who is a girl). The main theme of the book to me and many others I know is that you can't always fight what you up against but you just have to go with the flow.
When I read the book 'Stotan' it felt pretty blah I mean other than telling people on how to live his or her life there is nothing exciting about the book. One of the reasons I disliked the book is that it just combines way to many issues, conflicts, and themes into on tiny 183 paged book. The book takes reality and stretches it a little to far for my taste, so that is why I only give the book a total of three stars.

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Summary: Stotan
Review: The book Stotan is a very exciting book.I beleive it was the best book I have ever read. It takes place in a little city involving 4 boys and 1 girl as the main characters. The four boys r swimmers at Frost High School. Their friend Elaine ( the 1 girl) was a swimmer but got burnt out at the age of 17. The boys end up forfeiting every meet because they dont have enough swimmers. Their coach Max posts a notice for "Stotan Week" a week long event over christmaas break getting them to become better swimmers. They show up the first day and Max works them hard, when he thinks they are not performing well he sends them to a roped off section of the pool called the torture lane. There they do sprints in the water, pushups and situps continously until he says so. They end up going to Montana for a meet and Walker ends up qualifying for state out of state. At the end of one of the events Jeff has a hard time getting out of the pool and needs Norties assistance. Jeff ends up gettting taken away in an ambulance. He is later diagnosed with lukemia. To find out what happens next read this book.

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Summary: Reality Stretch
Review: The book `Stotan' starts off with a swimming team practicing to become Stotans or a cross Stoic and a Spartan. There is a wild love twist between the main character, Walker, Deveene, and Walker's best girl friend Elaine (girl friend as in a friend who is a girl). The main theme of the book to me and many others I know is that you can't always fight what you up against but you just have to go with the flow.
When I read the book 'Stotan' it felt pretty blah I mean other than telling people on how to live his or her life there is nothing exciting about the book. One of the reasons I disliked the book is that it just combines way to many issues, conflicts, and themes into on tiny 183 paged book. The book takes reality and stretches it a little to far for my taste, so that is why I only give the book a total of three stars.

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Summary: it was an okay book
Review: this book takes you into the mind of walker, a high school swim team captian, and his troubles. this book will oull you some of the time, but you'll find your self waiting for a good part.

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Summary: The Best Life-like Book
Review: This book was a very interesting to read. It was more life-like than like a fairy tale. This book is life-like because real life things happened.

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Summary: Wonderful and enjoyable
Review: This book was required for me to read in a college literature class and I was not looking forward to it because I do not enjoy reading sports books but I was surprisingly wrong. This book is a very fast read and is very poignant. There are 5 very relatable characters that each have unique stories that draw the reader in. Even though the parts about the swimming were a little foreign to me, they were not too confusing to throw you off. I could find people that I know that are in each of these characters and I am female so it is not just a boy book. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants a good book and a wonderful story.

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Summary: Stotan is a great book
Review: This book was very remarkable. There are twists and turns around every page. The author did a very significant job writing all the tragic issues such as racism and domestic abuse. The book also talks about relationships and how to deal with almost the worst thing that they can throw at you. Stotan week is a week that Jeff, Lion, Nortie, and Walker have to deal with athletic and emotional roller coasters. In the beginning the book was a little unorganized. The book was a little slow in the beginning. It improved greatly towards the middle and even more in the end. I am recommending this book to older children, 12-17. It is a very short yet good book.

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Summary: Stotan is a great book
Review: This book was very remarkable. There are twists and turns around every page. The author did a very significant job writing all the tragic issues such as racism and domestic abuse. The book also talks about relationships and how to deal with almost the worst thing that they can throw at you. Stotan week is a week that Jeff, Lion, Nortie, and Walker have to deal with athletic and emotional roller coasters. In the beginning the book was a little unorganized. The book was a little slow in the beginning. It improved greatly towards the middle and even more in the end. I am recommending this book to older children, 12-17. It is a very short yet good book.