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Summary: A perfect fit for teens
Review: (...)this book is a great fit for teens and the awards earnedare well deserved.Elvin is just starting high school, but beforeschool starts the directors at his school send all the boys to the St. Paul's Seminary Retreat Center, so they can be "placed" in the appropriate "slot" for sports teams at their new school. Elvin doesn't fit into a slot, he knows this and tried to tell the directors that he is "unslottable". The directors want to help Elvin find his slot. A great book that will leave you laughing at Elvin's wise-cracking remarks, especially in the letters home to his mom. Elvin's story continues in _Extreme Elvin_. END
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Summary: Questionable language for children?
Review: Am I the only one who questions the appropiateness of the language in this book? It was brought to my attention by a student who said "I can't read this book. It has bad words in it?" This is what the ALA recommends? I don't know that it is even appropriate for high school students.
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Summary: Amusing and Thought-Provoking
Review: Chris Lynch packs a whallop in Slot Machine. Any young adult who has searched for his slot, his place to "fit in", will identify with Elvin Bishop. Readers will cry, moan, and eventually laugh with Elvin as he suffers through defeat, rejection, and then triumph. Lynch manages to sum up many readers' entire adolescence in three weeks of an action-packed, bully-infested, humiliation-filled summer camp. And yet our hero, Elvin Bishop, emerges stronger than he went in. He is secure in his knowledge of who he is, even as he watches his two best friends lose a bit of their perfection. Even though this tale is a bit tall, Lynch's writing contains realistic dialogue and character traits that young adults will identify with. Slot Machine is the epitomy of "coming of age" books, leaving readers a little more secure in the knowledge of who they might become.
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Summary: a good book for teens
Review: I read the book Slot Machine by Chris Lynch. It is an adventure/comedy book and is very entertaining and I never wanted to put down the book. I choose this book because when I looked at it it seemed interesting because of the title of the book. I loved the book because of the predicament that the main character was in. Also, there was kind of a diffrent story on the side which included one of the main characters two best friends. I would recomend this book to people from the 6th grade to the 10th grade. Chris Lynch has written other books including the Shadow Boxer and Iceman. Lynch has a masters degree from the writing program at Emerson College.
This book is about a boy named Elvin who is going to a new school. He is at a retreat where all the freshmen go to find what "slot", sport, they are in. Unfortunately Elvin can't find himself a slot. For a side story he has two best friends. One of his best friends Frankie was trying to fit in with the older and cooler kids. His other best friend Mike found his slot easily and is like there father, he kept encouraging Elvin to find a slot. In one part of the story Frankie trys to pursuade Mike and Elvin to come with him to a party with the older kids. Frank says "You guys want another chance tonight, the O's kind of think you two are wimps". After Frank said that I wonderd if Mike and Elvin were going to fold under peer pressure, but they did not. That is just on of the parts of this excellent book. I recomend if you are between the age groups I suggested that you definetely read this book.
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Summary: a good book for teens
Review: I read the book Slot Machine by Chris Lynch. It is an adventure/comedy book and is very entertaining and I never wanted to put down the book. I choose this book because when I looked at it it seemed interesting because of the title of the book. I loved the book because of the predicament that the main character was in. Also, there was kind of a diffrent story on the side which included one of the main characters two best friends. I would recomend this book to people from the 6th grade to the 10th grade. Chris Lynch has written other books including the Shadow Boxer and Iceman. Lynch has a masters degree from the writing program at Emerson College.
This book is about a boy named Elvin who is going to a new school. He is at a retreat where all the freshmen go to find what "slot", sport, they are in. Unfortunately Elvin can't find himself a slot. For a side story he has two best friends. One of his best friends Frankie was trying to fit in with the older and cooler kids. His other best friend Mike found his slot easily and is like there father, he kept encouraging Elvin to find a slot. In one part of the story Frankie trys to pursuade Mike and Elvin to come with him to a party with the older kids. Frank says "You guys want another chance tonight, the O's kind of think you two are wimps". After Frank said that I wonderd if Mike and Elvin were going to fold under peer pressure, but they did not. That is just on of the parts of this excellent book. I recomend if you are between the age groups I suggested that you definetely read this book.
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Summary: I liked this book because it was interesting.
Review: I thought it was a good book because there was a lot of swearing , and because it was a good book. The reading level is about 8th grade level. The book is fiction. The main charecters are Eugene, Elvin, Mike, and Frank. Elvin goes to camp and spends 3 weeks there. in camp Elvin has to try all these diffrent sectore. He starts off at football, then baseball, then basketball then at the end he goes to art sector because he didnt find any other sector he liked. The book takes place in New York. The book is educational because if you are going to do sports when you grow up you can see the pain of them.
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Summary: Worst book ever
Review: The plot of the story is that some kid goes to camp and is bad at every sports and at the end he is in the very weird art group and did not change at all durring the book. A day in the life of some guy that sleeps all day would be more interesting than this. I BEG OF YOU DO NOT READ THIS BOOK IT HAS NO POINT. Everyone who writes reveiws are parents who love the book but the kid hates it. I am a kid and I know how the person who is reading it feels
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Summary: Worst book ever
Review: The plot of the story is that some kid goes to camp and is bad at every sports and at the end he is in the very weird art group and did not change at all durring the book. A day in the life of some guy that sleeps all day would be more interesting than this. I BEG OF YOU DO NOT READ THIS BOOK IT HAS NO POINT. Everyone who writes reveiws are parents who love the book but the kid hates it. I am a kid and I know how the person who is reading it feels
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Summary: Slot Machine is a very good book!
Review: This book is a very good book. It appeals to me because it is about a 14 year old boy that is overweight like me. He does not like physical activity but is enrolled into a sports camp by his loving mother. Little does he know what will happen. The boy's name is Elvin and he has to find a "slot". A "slot" is a position in a sport that you enjoy playing and will do so for 21 days. Elvin has big trouble finding his place and goes through many trials and tribulations along his only two friends that go with him. I would recommend this book to any teen or preteen that wants to read a funny, well written book. The only things I didn't like in this book were the cursing and explicit behavior displayed in this book (very little). The author (Chris Lynch) is very good at writing from a teenager's perspective and thinking like one. One might think that he is a teenager himself. Overall, this is a very good book and I would stand behind it. I enjoyed this book very much and hope that you will as well.
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Summary: slot machine
Review: This book is about a boy named Elvin who goes to a camp to get introduced to high school. He soon finds out that this camp is not to introduce him to high school but to slot him in a sport for one of the school teams. The only trouble is that Elvin doesn't fit into any sport at all. He goes through almost every slot until the counselors just give up on him. At the end Elvin finally finds a slot that suits him. The art slot. I would highly recomend this book because everybody can relate to not fitting in when you go to a camp or new school just like Elvin felt in this book.
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