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Summary: The Greatest
Review: "I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This" is a book that ANYONE would love. It makes you think about not seeing everything in the world in black and white. It is the most wonderful book about two girls who overcome the racism and are best friends. It's very detailed and life-like. I hope that you read this book. Please give it a try cuz once you stop, you ain't gonna wanna put it down! Jacqueline Woodson is very amazing and talented...
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Summary: Sad but a very exciting Story
Review: A lonely girl named Lena just moved to Chauncey, Ohio but isn't making any friends. Marie is a black girl who thinks she is very raggedy. Evenetually, the find out that they both have a deep, secret. To find out, read the book!!!
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Summary: I was bothered
Review: As an adult, I enjoyed this book for its full development of character and the bond shared between the girls. But also, I was extremely bothered that Marie didn't decide to tell an adult about Lena's abusive father. This, to me, seems like the kind of secret that one must tell in order to really be a friend. Running away just doesn't solve it. Lena and her sister needed professional help (as did Marie, in my opinion) and I would hate for a young adult to follow in Marie's footsteps and keep a secret such as this private.
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Summary: Short, outdated, and dry, but get past it and it's okay.
Review: As I stepped into the worlds of well-to-do leather jacket wearing Marie, and the abusive home of "whitetrash" Lena, I realized that this book wasn't exactly "up to par" by the standards of young reader books today. In order to relate to the reader, the author must know the world of teenagers, not just guess as it is evident Woodson did. The leather boots and jackets, the cupcakes in class are all outdated, and ruined a perfectly good book. It seemed Woodson tried to condense the book into a shorter version than it originally had been planned. Overall, the book was not as insightful or intersting as I had expected, just basically the life of two confused pubescents, which, to the supposed reader, is nothing new
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Summary: Poignant and Eye Opening
Review: Daringly confronting the issues of sexual abuse, death, divorce, pain, racism, and relashionships, this eloquent novel was deeply affecting. It reads easily, holds your attention, and leaves you crying with a new look on the world. I recommend it to all.
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Summary: poor choice of setting
Review: I grew up in Athens, Ohio. Chauncey is a village a few miles away. Same school system, library system, all that. Chauncey is white. Heck, the whole county is white, almost. But Chauncey is not anything like the Chauncey, Ohio, depicted in this book. Maybe the story is terrific, but I was so caught up in the surreal feeling of Chauncey-as-a-different-universe that it didn't work for me at all. And I like Woodson's other books. The setting was just a major flaw for me.
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Summary: Excellent Novel!!!
Review: I Hadn't Meant To Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson is an excellent novel that shows how two girls from different races can share a secret and have a impact on each others lives. Anyone who considers reading this book should know that is placed in the elementary-junior high reading level.
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Summary: A touching book about an often-unspoken problem
Review: I Hadn't Meant To Tell You this is about a friendship between two girls that the world around them thinks shouldn't be friends. But for them, the world around them can almost disappear -- after reading them I remembered only them, not what they wore or did in class. The shocking secret that Lena hadn't meant to tell Marie is that that she is being molested by her father, and the description of how she deals with it, and how difficult it is to break the silence, rings perfectly true to the behavior of many abuse survivors I've known or known of. This is a book to tell those being abused that they are not alone, and give others a chance to see the kind of problem sexual abuse can be.
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Summary: Excellent Book!!
Review: I Hadn't Meant to tell you this is an excellent book for the elementary-junior high level. It shows a great friendship between two girls of different races and shows how a bond will last a lifetime.
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Summary: Very good Book
Review: I have read this book 2 times now.It is a very good book,in the story theres this black girl named Marie and a WhiteGirl called Lena moves in,they call Lena 'whitetrash'.These two girls Marie and lena become friends but lena has a terrible secret,Marie dosent know what to do,Should she tell?Yet the two girls learn the value of freindship,and something that is true is,keep it in your mind,"Why cant we all be people here?'
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