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Summary: Leaving Fishers
Review: Hello my name is Nicole. The book Leaving Fishers was an okay book. I was waiting for an exciting ending but it just ended. Overall the plot was well written. To me I think the best part of a book is the begining and the ending so that is why I only give this book 3 stars. Thank you for reading my book review. Bye
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Summary: A Very Good Book!
Review: I didnt bye this book but i got it from my school library. It was a great book and i came on the internet looking to bye it. If you need something to read that you just can't put down then pick this book up, it is very interesting. -The Codester
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Summary: Leaving Fishers.
Review: I first found Leaving Fishers at the book fair at my school, and normally I don't just pick out books out of the blue without someone referring it to me, but I made an exception this time, and it's a good thing I did! Leaving Fishers is all about an insecure girl who moves to a town where her first two weeks of school she spends alone and invisible, but one day someone notices her, the one noticing her being Angela, and invites her to another table where she finds new friends and at first things go great in the book, it seems as if everyone is so happy and so joyous with what they do.Not. By mid-book the praises end and Dorry is put to work, forced to do all these things she doesn't want to do, starving herself on Thanksgiving Day, trying to force her religion on children (which by the way ends in her getting fired), treating her parents badly, compromising her grades, and anything else bad that you can imagine all because she wanted to be liked. In the end she winds up leaving the Fishers, and even that was hard as they constantly called her house for days, giving her the cold shoulder in the halls and acting as if she no longer exits, but as the book where's on she finds that others have left as well, and one in particular that towards the end of the book told her of the Fisher ways, and how it was nothing but a cult. In my opinion Leaving Fishers was a great book, that at times had its funny parts, I myself found it quite funny when Dorry said she wished she could take her fork and stab Angela in the heart with it. Heh. So that's why I give it five stars!
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Summary: Catching Stars
Review: I gave "Leaving Fishers" five stars because it is one of my favorite books. I read it, and I had many reactions to it. I was angry, sad, and mostly, it made me think. About religion and God. The only thing I don't like about this book is that the Fishers [of Men] lead Dorry to beleive that if you do one little thing wrong, God would be angry with you and you wouldn't be able to go to Heaven. The Fishers made Dorry do things she shouldn't have done, like fast on Thanksgiving. (For those who don't know, to fast means to go without food.) But I loved this book. I lent it to my baby-sitters husband, a pastor, and he liked it too. I recommend it to everyone.
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Summary: OUT WITH FISHERS
Review: I gave this book four stars because it didn't start out very good in the begining and it didn't draw me in. You really need to read this book so you can tell if you are getting drawn into a cult. This book starts out about a girl named Dorry Stevens. She just moved to Indianapolis from Bryden, Ohio. She feels lonley at first but then she gets invited over to a table during lunch. She didn't really have a clue about what her new friends were about to introduce her into. At first she is reluctant to join but soon finds herself in the middle of Fishers of Men. She soon realized that it wasn't what she thought it would be. This book could be realistic fiction because some people get drawn into cult groups without realizing it.
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Summary: Disapointed reader
Review: I read the book "Leaving Fishers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix. I thought that the book was very different and odd. I didn't like the book all that much. But I did like how the book got you curious and it made you keep reading. This book shows a good example of how some people do anything just to fit in and make people like them.
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Summary: Not the Best in the World!
Review: I say this book is knid of boring. I lost interset in this book about half the waythough. Now I don't think this book is a complete failure. It has an really good moral stroy for all teens. The moral story is about a high-school girl named Dorry. That has just moved from Bydren,Ohio to Fishers,Indiana. Anyone who has moved can relate to what happens. She has trouble meeting new friends at school and wants to move back to Bydren and live with her sister. Dorry's parents both say "no"! So, dorry is stuck in Fishers. The next day at school she meets a group of friends. Their names are Angela, Brad and Lara. They are part of a church group named Fishers of Men. Dorry and Angela get close! Then alot of strange thisngs start to hapeen. Read the book to find out what happens. The author has a outstanding word usage for this book. If you want to expended your vocab read this book. Allow I would not read this book if you plan to read it cover to cover. I recommend this book to kids in grades 8 thru 12. I give this book two stars for all of those reason
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Summary: Interesting Book
Review: I thought that this book as very good, but at times boring. The story was very creative and it showed something that could happen to anyone who just happens to be the right type of person and in the right place at the right time. I hadn't heard very much about religous cults until i read this. Margaret Haddix is one of the best authors out their for teens. She comes up with the greatest storylines. If you like this book I strongly recommend you read "running out of time" which is also by Haddix. Bye BYe Bye
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Summary: A balanced, tense look at cults and Christianity
Review: In LEAVING FISHERS, Margaret Peterson Haddix takes a lonely, insecure, and likable girl and slowly draws her under the influence of the Fishers of Men, a religious cult whose members believe the group is the only escape from eternal damnation. Haddix' novel is well-crafted, slowly leading the reader through Dorry's experience with the Fishers, subtly transforming the group from one which welcomes her with open arms and promises of God's love to one which makes increasingly unreasonable demands on her, all of which carry the threat of an afterlife in hell if she fails. The book is ultimately a very balanced look at the fine line between faith and fanaticism, between cults and Christianity.
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Summary: Scary But Eye-Opening Look Into Cults
Review: It is very rare to find a book such as Leaving Fishers that draws the reader in and keeps them on the edge of their seats for the entire book. Even rarer is the facts that the book does all this with a very unlikely subject...cults. Consistently, Margaret Peterson Haddix has taken subjects that most other authors wouldn't touch with a 40-foot pole, and developed them into books that left the reader desperate for more. She displays this talent in Fishers incredibly well, as is evident in her well-rounded characters, fast-moving plot, and dialogue that seems to draw you right into the story. (I think that's a run-on sentence, but I am typing so fast because I love this book so much...well, you get the picture.) And I end this rambling review with a plea: Ms. Peterson Haddix, PLEASE write a sequel to this book, or more like it! Oh, and absolutely wonderful job with all of your books!
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