Letters from the Inside

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Summary: It was a great book and I loved every minute of it!!!!!!!!!
Review: This was a terrific book in every way and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Summary: A good book, but watch out!
Review: This book has become one of my favs. When I took it out of the library you can bet I didn't get what I expected. It was so intriguing and well written I couldn't put it down. I was so into it. The letters were personal so you really did feel as if you knew the characters, which rarely happens for me. But I was headed for a fall. The ending left me dizzy with unanswered questions. I felt empty, either of them might be dead for all I know! That's why it got a 9 from me and not a 10. This is one unique book and I still reccomend it with a warning. Please write with your thoughts

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Summary: Great book, full of suspence.
Review: I think Letters From the Inside was a great book because it let the girls thell about their problems and get an answer with out emberisment. This book is highly recomended by me and should be read by everyone. The suspence is great and it deserves a big recognition.

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Summary: Excellent! Intriguing!
Review: I loved this book. The only problems were at the end John Marsden just left you hanging. You don't know what happened. Also, at times it got a little confusing. I recommend this to all young adults that want a good book to read. This book is very unique because it's all letters. OI think this makes teenagers want to read it more because it makes it more interesting. I wish there were more books out there like Letters From The Inside.

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Summary: This book was open ended
Review: I thought this book was strange at first, then as I got into it I thouroughly enjoyed it except for the fact that it leaves me with too many unanswered questions. I would like to share theories if anyone is interested

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Summary: Good book. The ending is... surprising.
Review: If you couldn't figure out what happened at the end... in the words of another reviewer (hope she doesn't mind me quoting her): "read Mandy's last letter and the dream Tracy has twards the end!!!" I was pretty sure about what happened, but the dream makes it almost certain. Anyway, read this book. It's good, but not as good as Tomorrow, when the War Began. The Australian expressions might make it a bit strange for American readers, but not too confusing. Recommended for ages 13 up-- younger kids would probably be disturbed by it or not understand. The main characters are 16 year olds (15 at the beginning.) I am 15.

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Summary: "Don't ask what I did, don't try to find out!"
Review: I read "Letters From The Inside" in the third grade, and it just... haunted me. The ending I mean. I read it a few times since, and my love for this book didn't go away. The book is about Mandy, who, bored one day, answers an ad she saw in a teen magizine, seeing she has some things in commom with Tracy, the girl she is writing too, like they both like the group Power Without Glory. Mandy and Tracy start writing to each other about their familys, friends, school, boyfriends, ect, and Mandy thinks that Tracy has the perfect life- great boyfriend, nice siblings, rich parents, ect- until Mandy finds out that Tracy in in a teen prison. Only afer "haressing" Tracy for awhile does Tracy aswer Mandy, and then the book goes into an amazing twist. The ending is totally haunting and open, and leaves you with a lot of stuff to think about. Pick this book up.

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Summary: Letters from the inside
Review: Letters from the inside is about two girls who write back and forth to each other. Tracey is in jail and she puts an advertisement in a magazine looking for a pen pal and Mandy replies. Mandy is a clean-cut adolescent suburban girl and initially believes that she and Tracey are similar. She begins to realize through the letters that Tracey is in trouble. Tracey admits that she is in a youth detention center for a crime. Tracey never explains to Mandy why she is in the youth detention. Tracy thinks Mandy's life is perfect. She has too been misleading though, but not because Mandy lied, but because Tracy never listens. Mandy has mentions that her brother is violent with her and that Mandy fears him. Tracey never answers back to Mandy when she writes about her brother instead Tracey only like to read and listen about Mandy's "perfect" life with her friends and school. This novel is told completely through the exchanging of letters between these two girls Mandy and Tracey, and a lot is left unsolved. It never discovers why Tracy is in jail and what becomes of Mandy, but when the letters fail to turn up, the author let the reader believe that Mandy's brother threats gave been realized and that she and her family are dead.

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Summary: After all these years...
Review: I still can not froget this book. It's about two friends Tracy and "Manna" who start writing to each other as pen pals. It starts of as kind of joke but the two girls become real frineds. Espically after Tracy tells the truth about her life.The more they write the more they are pulled into each other life, which not as near as perfect as the other thinks it is. This book is great at showing you that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. That no one has a "perfect" life or family. I think the most unforgetable thing about this book though is the ending. This is what made me never forget this book. Thought you can pretty much figure out what happens it'll still keep you up at night thinking about it. If you want one really great unforgetable book, by this one.

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Summary: Awesome - I still think about it 7 years later
Review: This book is deceptively amazing. I first read it when I was in year 5 or 6 and it has stayed with me ever since. John Marsden is such a talented writer, no teenager in Australia should grow up without reading one of his books. Originally i read it as an 11 year old, laughinhg at the superficial jokes but when i got to the ending i realised how powerful it was. There are so many things going on in this book, i think you have to be a little older to apprecaite all the little sub-themes and the hints. I read so much trash when i was younger and it has all been wiped from my brain except for this book. Keep at it - at first the characters appear to be your stereotypical, cliched teenagers but as you read on you see what amazing characters Marsden has evoked.
I love this book! I have wanted to ask John Marsden about the ending for so long...i want to see if my theory is right!
Americans, don't be put off by this Aussie writer - he is fantastic. I would also highly recommend the "Tomorrow When the War Began" series, they are also frightengly amazing.