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The Window

The Window

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Perfection for a Simple Minded Person
Review: This book was one I was not completely proud of. It's entire written style was not one to impress. I say this because half way through the book the mystery was solved and I only continued to read thoroughly because I was looking for that magic ending or surprising twist that the books I like often have. I felt this reading was a complete waste of my time because the information was handed to me and didn't give me any chance to try and think, "What's going to happen next?" The book did not interest me and it's probably because I didn't care about the characters.
When I'm reading a book I like to dive deep into it and escape my reality. I like to enter the characters. At the beginning I didn't feel it was detailed enough to keep me captivated. The personality of Mandy was not only uninteresting, but I felt she was annoying. We understand that she had just lost her mother and sight and that it's understandable to be bitter, but since the beginning wasn't detailed at all, I didn't care for her.
In conclusion, I felt this book was boring and not interesting because of the lack of detail and the characters. It didn't give me any chance to think about the information because it was handed to me immediatley. If I was to put the book down and stop reading half way through, I would have the same knowledge of what happened then if I had kept reading. I don't reccomend this book to anyone who likes to think about what they are reading.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Window of Wonders
Review: After barely surviving a terrible car accident that killed her mother, Mandy, 15, is left without sight. She is sent to her relatives in Texas, and she has to adjust to a new place, being blind and without her mother. When she is in Texas, Mandy meets two people, Hannah and Ted, who become her very best friends. They don't show her any special treatment, and they completely ignore her diability, just like she wants them to. Aside from her school, Mandy is drawn into the story of her family's past through her bedroom window. She hears the secret stories of what happened to the generations before her. Through the stories, Mandy puts the mysterious pieces of her family's past together. Mandy's personality traits bring out the best in her. She is extremely brave, independent, and a one-of-a kind. She is also not afraid of challanges. Jeanette Ingold, the author of the story, describes her qualities so that you could actually feel like you were in the story. I would definatly recommend this story to others, especially to young girls. The story has strong messages about the value of life and about friendship. It was the kind of story that many could relate to. It never dragged on like most books to, and I couldn't put it down. I truly enjoyed the story and I think many others would too.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Mandy,the amazing blind girl
Review: After Mandy was in the car accident and her mother died Mandy was none stop full of action. She was very brave the whole time that Hanna was going to runaway. Mostly the time at the bus station when she went on her own.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Mysticism that young adolescent might enjoy...
Review: Although the main character in this book is of high school age, I do not recommend this book for secondary school students. I think that the moderate level of character development and "magic" plot is more on the level of younger adolescents. It is also my opinion that high schoolers will be disinterested in the mysterious and unexplained psychic episodes that Mandy experiences in the story. However, I believe that middle level students might enjoy this story and the mysticism that it contains. But remember, I stress that you should read this book yourself to make up your own mind.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It was a very nice book
Review: I liked this book because it is for kids my age. I also liked how the author explains the kind of personality she has by just talking about her feelings.That is why I think it was a great book.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good Book for young Adults
Review: Imagine yourself being blinded at twelve years of age in a car accident. Now imagine yourself also without a mother. The Window, by Jeanette Ingold, was about a young girl who was in a car accident and lost her sight. To make her life even worse, the young girl was left without a mother, who died a few days later in the hospital. I enjoyed reading this novel.

The first reason I liked reading The Window was because the novel had a good story line. Mandy was the young girl involved in the car accident, left blinded and without a mother. She went to live with her Aunt and Uncle that she did not know about in Texas. The story described how Mandy had to choose whether to go to a public school or a private special school that would help her. For me, this would be a very hard decision because I would not know which school to choose. I would have to adapt to a whole new school and a new life because I would be blind. Throughout the whole book, Mandy faced different situations. She saw and heard people outside of her bedroom window, and she was the only one who saw and heard them. This is the most important part of the book. During the whole book, I questioned myself if Mandy was really seeing people or if they were just part of her imagination.

The characters in The Window were very interesting. The main character Mandy, was my favorite character because she never gave up. No matter what she kept going. Even though Mandy was blind, she was capable of doing a lot. She was able to find herself around her school and around the house. She could pick out the clothes that she was going to wear. Just because she was blind didn't mean she couldn't be like the other kids. She went to a dance and also camped out in her backyard with a new best friend. She also went out at night with her friends, just like a normal kid would do. Just because she was blind, this did not stop her from doing what she enjoyed. If I put myself in Mandys place, I don't think that I would be able to do everything that she did. I would have given up the first couple weeks of my blindness because I have a hard time adapting to new situations.

Even though she did behave like a normal kid, I think some parts of this book really seemed impossible. If a young girl is blind, is she able to run and take care of an opossum by herself? Is she able to look at pictures? No, but in this book, she did all of this. The way the author explained some of her ideas was not really good because she did not put in enough details. She did not describe the events enough. She made some of the parts in the book not realistic. For example, the accident was the main reason that Mandy was blind. In the book, Jeanette Ingold did not give a lot of detail about the accident. I think she could have put a lot more detail in describing the accident.

Even though The Window had some impossible parts, I still enjoyed reading it. I would fully recommend this novel for young adults to read. The Window was a medium sized book that had easy to understand language. I would not read any other of her books because they are more for young people. If Jeanette Ingold wrote books for older people, I wouldn't mind reading them. Once again, I recommend this book for young adults who like to read small and easy novels.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A satisfying balance of subplots
Review: In The Window, Mandy has survived a tragic car accident which killed her mother, but she's left blind and living with relatives she doesn't really know. Her heightened sense of hearing introduces her to a world of her past relatives, where she slowly comes to understand her sometimes-puzzling present uncles and aunt. The time slip theme combined with the theme of a contemporary girl struggling with blindness and new friendships makes for a satisfying balance of subplots.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Read about an amazing blind girl!
Review: Jeanette Ingold is an spetacular writer. She brings to live a young girl, Mandy, who even with no sight, she can 'see'and hear her ancestors lives. Mandy's mother, Karen, was left for adoption by her real mother, Gwen. Gwen, who was married at age fifteeen with a salesman, Paul, left her family which she couldn't stand. Paul dies and Gwen is left with a child, Karen. Gwen gives up Karen for adoption and leaves her name and address. Karen grows up with an adopted family. Karen and her daughter, Mandy, lived all over the place. Karen finds out about her real mother and tries to find her. As Karen and Mandy go to the store they get in an accident, which leaves Mandy blind and kills Karen. Mandy is now without of sight and has to go live with her great-aunts and uncles, which she never knew lived. Mandy lives up in the attic and starts to hear voices and 'sees' her grandmother's life, Gwen. Mandy decides to go to a public school. In which she meets new people. Like, Hannah, who she becomes best friends with. She also meets Ted, a deaf kid, who she goes to a dance with. Mandy tells Hannah about Gwen and the things she 'sees.' As Mandy keeps hearing and 'seeing' her grandmother's life and she discovers things that connects her to her and her mother's life. Ingold is an excellent writer! This is the first time I've read a book written by her and I think she borught Mandy to life.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An Amazing Blind Girl
Review: Mandy is a 13 year old girl whos mom died in a car crash and she lost her sight. Even though she is blind she can still hear her ancestors lives. Her aunt asked if she wanted to live with her. She said yes. They got to the house and she asked to see her room. Her aunt took her to her room and Mandy  sat by the window. If you would like to know more about the book go to the library and look for Jeanette Ingold is the author. I would rate this book 1-5 and give it a 5 because it was an exciting and sad book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Captivating!
Review: Mandy is blind at 15...her mother dead. Mandy moved around all her life with her adopted mother. One day her mum finally decided to find Margaret, her birth mother. She went to the store, bought fancy paper, and was pulling out of the parking lot while fastening her seatbelt when the crash happened. Mandy was blinded. Karen was killed. Mandy now lives with Margaret's brothers, Abe and Gabriel, and Gabriel's wife, Emma. She can go to the fresh lace curtains and see her great-uncle Abe's and great-uncle Gabriel's life...along with Margaret, called Gwen. Gwen's mother doesn't seem to love her. Gwen marries Paul, a salesman, and leaves...never seeing her mum again. Abe never gets over it, never seeing Gwen. Meanwhile, Mandy has made a new friend Hannah and shared her secret, got a bf, Ted, who is partly deaf, and is facing normal High School life.


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