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Summary: A great teen book!!
Review: Fifteen year old Kirk Tobak is different in every way. He's 15, but short...smart...but does horrible in school...and is funny, but has no friends. At home, it couldn't get worse. His mom always comes home really late, is an alcoholic...and not to menton her freaky boyfriend! When he gets demoted into a lower English class, full of Rock-and-Roll slackers, it couldn't get better. He meets a cool guy he likes to hang out with and a girl named Lauren he likes alot, and theres the possibility that she may like him too. He also has a job he couldnt love any more. He works at a local library, restocking the shelves. But when one of his co-workers is pregnant, he is asked to take her job reading to a blind woman. At first he's worried, but once he meets her, he gets to like her alot...and i mean ALOT! Now with a girlfriend, a best friend a job he enjoys more than anything..what bad can happen? Well...I'll tell you. He comes home one night to see his mom left him a note saying he and her boyfriend went to California to live and start a restuarant. Now with the job of cover up the fact he is living by himself from his teachers, friends and Callie (the blind girl ((shes 29)) ), he stuggles to keep everything going at once. In his new English class, he starts writing this wierd poems and little storys. Hes bestfriend is also writing wierd little marks in this tic-tac-toe boxes. These turn out to be gutiar chords and the fact he is a great gutiar player, but in need of lyrics. Once he reads Kirk's words, hes hooked! He loves the things he writes and puts them to his music. Kirk askes him why he not in a band and it turns out that he just doesnt think hes good enough. Kirk secretly sighs him up with a metal band but his friend isn't to happy... Kirk goes to Callie's house every week and gets paid just enough to buy alittle food and some gas to illegally drive to the market and to Callie's. His mom and her boyfrind keep sending him letters and plane tickets to go to California. But he always says he's just fine in his run-down New Jersey apartment. One day while hanging out with Lauren at his house....Callie's name comes up for the first time. Lauren gets jealous, but doesn't say anything. Then, a couple weeks later, she invites him to hang out with the rest of his friends, but he turns it down because he wants to go read with Callie. She gets mad again, but again, doesn't say a thing. Finally, on Christmas, she invites him to a party, but he again declines due to Callie. Lauren is feed-up and dumps Kirk. He gets really upset...and go's off the deep end. He realizes he is in love with with Callie and trys to kiss her in his car. She gets really upset but tells him not to think twice about it. One night he comes home and find...HIS MOM AND DAD! Yes..I said dad! She wants him to go back to California with them...This is what many people consider a low time in life. His girlfriend dumped him, Callie is mad at him and his parents are sitting him his living room ready to take him back to California. Blind Sighted by Peter Moore is a all around great book for all teens. Full of ups and downs, this book is a real page turner! The rest of this book is great and you need to read it if you my review sounds good.
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Summary: Engaging
Review: I randomly picked 'Blind-Sighted' off the book shelf, interested in blind characters in fiction. I got an amazing coming-of-age story that I could relate to in so many ways. Kirk is basically an extension of myself as I found so so many similarities between himself and I. I love this way this book is written, in a style that resemble my writing style. I just connected with this book in so many ways. I'm 16 years old and gosh, I just wish I knew more about Peter Moore or could contact him. I couldn't give enough praise to him for how much I connected with this book.
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Summary: Engaging
Review: I randomly picked 'Blind-Sighted' off the book shelf, interested in blind characters in fiction. I got an amazing coming-of-age story that I could relate to in so many ways. Kirk is basically an extension of myself as I found so so many similarities between himself and I. I love this way this book is written, in a style that resemble my writing style. I just connected with this book in so many ways. I'm 16 years old and gosh, I just wish I knew more about Peter Moore or could contact him. I couldn't give enough praise to him for how much I connected with this book.
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Summary: Blind Sighted
Review: Kirk is a 16 year old that is used to doing things his way. You get the sense that he has raised himself. His mother drinks and is neglectful. The story picks up when Kirk is taken out of honors english and placed in another class. There he meets new friends(one will be his girlfriend). Outside of school, he gets a new job, reading to a blind woman. His life is looking up, until his mom decides they need to get out of that town. She leaves to check things out. Kirk, is now alone at home. He now has to deal with the house, a new girlfriend, feelings for an older woman, and then ther is school. This is an excellent story. Kirk is a good kid faced with not so perfect circumstances. I found myself "rooting" for him, as I read.
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Summary: Blind Sighted
Review: Kirk is a 16 year old that is used to doing things his way. You get the sense that he has raised himself. His mother drinks and is neglectful. The story picks up when Kirk is taken out of honors english and placed in another class. There he meets new friends(one will be his girlfriend). Outside of school, he gets a new job, reading to a blind woman. His life is looking up, until his mom decides they need to get out of that town. She leaves to check things out. Kirk, is now alone at home. He now has to deal with the house, a new girlfriend, feelings for an older woman, and then ther is school. This is an excellent story. Kirk is a good kid faced with not so perfect circumstances. I found myself "rooting" for him, as I read.
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Summary: Not everyone with sight can see...
Review: Kirk is not your average public high school student--he's short, smart, and prefers books to sports. He does what he can to make himself fit in (sort of)--he doesn't apply himself or do his school work, and is able to give quick come-backs. He's been a loner for most of his life. This is another story where readers are thrust behind the scenes of a "misfit." We see how Kirk is bullied by the burnouts (and I would guess others as well), thus he doesn't do his homework or write his essays properly so as to hide his brains. We discover that part of Kirk's problem is that his mother is an alcoholic, and has decided to move to California with her boss, wanting Kirk to join them so they can be a family (Kirk's father left when he was a baby). Kirk is against this and refuses to leave his hometown. He refuses to leave because things in his life begin to look up--he is befriended by one of the burnouts, gets a girlfriend, and starts a new job reading to a blind woman that pays more money than the library job he had. He also dislikes the man his mother ends up marrying. I enjoyed this book--the characters are real (especially Kirk--we see his growth as he branches out), there are a lot of literary references (which was fun), and it was a fast read (kept me interested). The kids do swear (strongly) in the book. Kirk and his girlfriend have sex. There is violence. But none of it is gratuitous, and Moore isn't striving to be offensive with his writing. Overall, I recommend the book to high schoolers and adults.
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Summary: Having eyes, see you not ?
Review: Kirk is teen growing up in a troubled home with a mother who hits the bottle her boyfriend who always has one scheme or another going on. An outsider at school, he is intelligent and well read but likes to keep that fact hidden to avoid even more scorn from his peers. He gets a job reading to a young woman blinded in an accident and connects with some of the other outsiders at school. Just as things start to go right his mother's latest plan to find happiness looks to derail all of Kirk's new life. It was nice to see a young adult book with a male lead for a change and even more refreshing to find one who is as literate as Kirk. I enjoyed it and think others will do the same.
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Summary: Having eyes, see you not ?
Review: Kirk is teen growing up in a troubled home with a mother who hits the bottle her boyfriend who always has one scheme or another going on. An outsider at school, he is intelligent and well read but likes to keep that fact hidden to avoid even more scorn from his peers. He gets a job reading to a young woman blinded in an accident and connects with some of the other outsiders at school. Just as things start to go right his mother's latest plan to find happiness looks to derail all of Kirk's new life. It was nice to see a young adult book with a male lead for a change and even more refreshing to find one who is as literate as Kirk. I enjoyed it and think others will do the same.
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Summary: A Must Read Book
Review: Our grandaughter raved so much about Peter Moore's book, "Blind Sighted", that we had to read it. This is a terrific book! the characters are real and always exciting. It obviously can be enjoyed by more than one generation. We are looking forward to the next book by this promising new author.
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Summary: A Must Read Book
Review: Our grandaughter raved so much about Peter Moore's book, "Blind Sighted", that we had to read it. This is a terrific book! the characters are real and always exciting. It obviously can be enjoyed by more than one generation. We are looking forward to the next book by this promising new author.
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