Missing May

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Summary: Missing May
Review: This was an awesome book! It is one of the best books I have ever read. I would recomend it to anyone ages 8-15!!!

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Summary: 1 Great Book
Review: Missing May is one one of the best books in the world. It talks about problems and feelings. In this book you feel as if you are right there with the carracters and feeling the same things they are. This book also is very touching and insperational book. I bet I have read this book about a million times I love it so much. I hope you have the same feelings I had about this book when you read it.

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Summary: A Story with a Voice
Review: My sixth graders love this book! For these struggling readers there is a tenderness and honesty in the telling of the tale that seemed to resonnate with them, some of whom live with circumstances not so different from the protagonist. A story with a southern cadence and plenty of humor, it is amazing how quickly this tale weaves the reader into the characters' hearts. One of my all time favorite books of any genre!

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Summary: jeffs review
Review: This book is exciteting and sad. I recomend this to young teens. It teaches kids about life and death. It is educational for all ages. Personaly I did not love the book but its ok. Those are my thoughts on Missing may.

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Summary: Adults consider it a great read for kids. Kids..don't.
Review: It seems that no one but adults liked this book. The kids or young adults thought it--well lets just say that most would recommend it only to someone who was either eight years old, or someone who was was hated and in need of sufficient torture. Adults, it seems to me that you guys probably didn't like it so much, but thought that kids would like it. And it is the neverending tradition of adults to think kids to be younger and dumber than they really are. This book will be enjoyable to kids? Maybe eight year olds and six year olds will like it, but certainly no one older. Kids, pick your own books and take a good look at the adult recommended books before reading them. My review probably won't do anything to stop you from reading it. The reviews didn't for me. But after reading it, you'll probably choose to join the club--the "I hate Missing May club."

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Summary: Lackluster account of how a family deals with grief
Review: I had chosen this book to be included in my 4th grade reading class because I trusted that a Newbery Medal Winner had to be the best there is. I found this book to have some merit, but my students agreed that it "wasn't all that". Of the 5 books we have read up to now, Missing May was our least favorite. The story of a pre-teen and her adoptive "grandpa" going on with life after the man's wife dies is told with minimal excitement and "blah" characters. This was NOT worthy of a Newbery Medal! If you need to pass 3 hours and don't mind asking yourself "was that IT?" after you finish, then go ahead and "treat" yourself to Missing May.

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Summary: Teachers worship it; Kids squash hornets with it
Review: If you've read up on this book (checked out the reviews, the other editions, that stuff) than you've probably noticed that all of teh comments either give MISSING MAY 1 star or 5 stars. I've also noticed that many of the 5-Star People's reviews are perfectly spelled and gramatically correct and SOUND adult-ish. This suggests to me that Teachers and Adults thought it was a great book, and the kids were bored out of their mind.

Our 6th grade teacher picked this book because she thought it was a good book to explain death, and all kids deal with that someday, and blah blah blah. PLEASE! This book has a plot that can be explained in three sentences!

Okay, maybe I'm being harsh. When I started reaidng, I got to, like, the second or third chapter and said, "Hey, maybe for once we got a good book to read in school." However, this book soon went downhill, and by Chapter 12, I was dragging my eyes across the page, half-asleep.

I'm sorry, Cynthia Rylant. I'm sure you're a good writer and all... Just, maybe you should try writing for adults. So many kids seem to find MISSING MAY boring.

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Summary: SPEW!
Review: I have been sitting here at the computer wondering how and why this book got a Newbury Award. One problem, the word spew repeatedly pops into my head. This book basically went like this: - Summer gets adopted - May dies (O the tradegy) - Ob starts to go off his rocker and Summer spends all of her time complaining about Cletus, who, at least, has a hobby - They all go to the city trying to contact My's spirit through this physic lady - They get there and find out that the physic lady is also dead - Everybody is happy. Yay.

This book absolutely bored me out of my skull! That's just my opinion though, maybe you'd enjoy it, especially if somone you were close to recently passed, but I DEFINITELY do not recommened it for everyday reading!

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Summary: May's gone forever
Review: Summer's parents die. She bounces around from place to place until she finally goes to live on a farm with her aunt and uncle. Her aunt dies. She and her uncle have to learn how to get by on their own without always having to rely on someone else. She finds this somewhat difficult, but eventually she is able to handle this tragedy.. I like this book because it is a book that can make you cry and not alot of books do that. It has characters that seem like real people. It has a tittle that fits the book. It has things in it that can happen to us.

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Summary: How did...THIS...get a Newbery Award?
Review: When I had finished this book, I sat and puzzled something thathad plagued me from the first page. How did this...this undeservingbook manage to get the Newbery Award? The characters were flat and boring, the plot was short, boring, and stupid, and personally it made no sense. I know it's supposed to be a young adult book...but come on, you'd think that it's for eight-year-olds! If you want to read something just for the sake of reading something, go on read this book.