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Summary: A fun book for all ages
Review: CHEATING LESSONS combines humor, suspense, and an intriguing moral conundrum into an engaging stew that kept me reading into the wee hours of the night. This story has the power to make even "grown-up" readers think about growing up, learning about human nature, and the importance of figuring out and acting upon one's own sense of morality. Bernadette Terrell is a well-crafted character, one that teens could identify with, but also one who has her own contradictions and is grappling with the challenge of how to become the person she knows she should be. If you're doubtful that a suspenseful story of the "can't-put-it-down" variety can be created from controversies surrounding a high school Classics Bowl match, read CHEATING LESSONS and see just how it can be done.
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Summary: cheating is bad
Review: Cheating Lessons is a great book to read. Nan Willard Cappo is a fanstic writer. Bernadette Terrell begins to suspect that perhaps someone cheated to get Wiclham into the contest and is still cheating. The entire book is really good. I think cheat lessons is riveting story about right and wrong.
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Summary: cheating is bad
Review: Cheating Lessons is a great book to read. Nan Willard Cappo is a fanstic writer. Bernadette Terrell begins to suspect that perhaps someone cheated to get Wiclham into the contest and is still cheating. The entire book is really good. I think cheat lessons is riveting story about right and wrong.
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Summary: A great book for anyone!
Review: Cheating Lessons is an awesome book. I've read it three times, and the third time was as exciting and enjoyable as the first. The heroine, Bernadette, is smart, witty, and very funny. The supporting characters really do have character. The plot is gripping, and you never know what's coming next, right down to the harrowing final scenes. The ending is both surprising and satisfying. This book deals with a moral conflict, but does so without being boring or preachy and the result is a thoroughly refreshing and just lovely book. Cheating Lessons is well written and funny, exciting and suspenseful, and its characters are believable and entertaining. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a truly great read.
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Summary: My Fancy Review Title
Review: Cheating lessons was a great book that reminded me so much of my school days. It had the classic good vs. evil and yet still was able to relate to our lives today. I would recommend this book to anyone looking to read, or even if you don't like to read, I'd still recommend that you did.
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Summary: Cheating Lessons. . .
Review: Have you ever cheated on something? Anything. It doesn't have to be a test or changing your grades or lying. It could be anything. Be honest with yourself. Well, in this book cheating isn't neccesarsily a bad thing. It all starts out wit Bernadette, the star of the Wickham High School debate team. She's been elected to lead the school into the Classics Bowl against rivals Pinehurst. She's elated at the fact of representing her school at this pretegious affair. Then, she becomes suspicious at the fact that someone might have cheated to score better. You might ask, well why doesn't she just accept the scores and be happy? For one thing, she believes that they didn't learn enough of the material to score so well. So, she asks the team's leader Mr.Mallory to explain the grading system. Well, he mentioned it to the school principal who wants to know exactly what Bernadette is getting at. From them on, things turn into quite a mess. When she casts her suspicions on the teacher himself, things go from a mess to very complicated. This book gives you some very good doubts about cheating and whether or not, in what circumstances, is it right to do. Should Bernadette tell that the teacher cheated or throw the contest and pretend nothing happened? You be the judge. You might not exactly agree with the ending though.
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Summary: Not that cheating's funny, but....
Review: I borrowed this book from my daughter because I'm a quiz show addict but I kept reading because Bernadette made me laugh. I couldn't wait to see how she'd solve her cheating problem without losing her friends or her standards. I teach college English, and I'll give this to all those non-majors who think there's nothing funny about reading the classics. (I'd worry about them adopting B's shortcuts if I didn't know they'd thought of them and then some.) Also--if those mysteries about Sarah Sloan, Librarian Detective, don't exist, somebody ought to write them.
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Summary: Cheating Lessons doesn't cheat the reader...
Review: I read this book on the advice of a friend, and I wasn't sorry. In fact, I will recommend it to my junior high students as entertaining, thought-provoking, and timely.
This book has a smart, wise-cracking, main character, Bernadette, who faces the question of exposing a cheater in her high school English class. Reading this book exposes teens to a novel idea - reading is fun. Further, classical books are enjoyable, and being a well-read high schooler has multiple merits. While Bernadette works her way through this dilemna she also deals with a high school "crush" and an on-going self evaluation.
Ms. Cappo's story is well paced and well written. Teens may find themselves identifying with Bernadetter and enjoying a glimpse into her life and ideas. Even if nothing like Bernadette, teens should find her and her story entertaining as well as thought provoking.
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Summary: Cheating is Terrible!
Review: This book is mainly about a girl named Bernadette who is on the debate team. She goes to school at Wickham High School. There enemy is Pinehurst, a private school. When Wickham scores higher on a test then Pinehurst they are invited to a Classics Bowl. It's a contest between the top two schools about literature. Pinehurst always wins so Bernadette gets suspicious. She thinks someone might have cheated to get them into the Classics Bowl, but has no idea who. She and four others are made onto the team and they study hard for it. While all of this is going on they are also not the most popular kids in school so they are having peer pressure put on them all the time. I liked this book a lot because of how it really relates to lots of peoples life. It's possible to do whatever you want is one of the best things I got out of it. This book has 262 pages and it's a really easy read because it gets you caught up in it fast. The best part of the book was when Bernadette goes into her favorite teacher's house and spies on him. I just thought that was really interesting to read about. I recommend this book to any teenager in ninth to eleventh grade. It helps you realize some things about school and it also is just a great book. It's sort of a mystery, but it could really happen. I liked it a lot and I think almost anyone else would too.
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Summary: A Young Adult Book for Children
Review: This book's target audience (grades 6-10) is too high. It's a cute, original story but it's one that I find too young for Young Adult. The character is supposed to be a junior in high school but she acts more like a sixth-grader- with an entire chapter of her explaining the habits and mannerisms of a cat and a train of thought that is very immature for a seventeen-year-old. The plot in the YA novel is usually almost identical to that of an adult novel-with multiple, complex (teenage) problems that need to be solved, or at least recognized, by the end of the book. The plot in this particular novel centers around one thing- the fact that one of the students on the quiz bowl team is cheating. Cheating is not a complex teenage problem. Kudos to Cappo for touching on a subject that is frequently over looked by YA authors, but this is still a childrens book with a 17-year-old character. From a publishing standpoint this isn't a problem as children always like to read about characters that are older than them but from a literary standpoint, it doesn't make sense.
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