The Window

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Summary: The Window
Review: Mandy, a girl of merely sixteen, is blinded in a car accident that kills the only relative whom she knows, her morther. When she is taken in by Family Services they hand her over to the only relatives that they can find. Now Mandy has to live her life in a blackened world with people she has never met. When she arrives at her reletive's house she is guided to her room, an attic with one small window covered by lace curtains. Mandy is then faced with a hard desicion. Would she attend of special school for the blind or a nearby public school. She takes on the challenge and decides to attend a public school. There she meets a ncie girl named Hannah and a hearing impaired boy named Ted whom she takes interest in. One day Mandy opens up her window and leans out. Mysteriously she hears voices and images come into her mind of relatives from the past. She becomes very disturbed by what she hears and sees and can not comprehend what has happened. Now Mandy has to put her life back on track and overcome the one thing she can not change, her past. Although this book has many great concepts and ideas I would, however, not recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a well-written novel. This book is very slow moving and has no climax. The characters are poorly developed and the actual plot of the story is poorly conveyed through the words. In my opinion there in no connection betweed what happenes in the story and the messege that the author seems to be trying to get across. This book is very easy reading and would be a great choice for younger readers but should not be classified in the young adult's section.

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Summary: A complete and utter waste of time
Review: One word. Bad. Two words. Very bad. Three words. Simply very bad. Four words. Don't ever read this. Ever. If you have any trace of knowledge or intelligence in your brain you will come away from reading this book feeling that you have completely wasted your time. A car wreck leaves Mandy blind and motherless, so she goes to live with her great aunt and uncle. There, in their home, she sees visions of her grandmother, Gwen. I guess this is supposed to be "irony", but it ends up becoming meaningless dialogue that clutters up the book and has no revelance to the topic. Zero. The book has no memorable ending and when I think of it all I remember is that I could have been doing better things. ....!

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Summary: A complete and utter waste of time
Review: One word. Bad. Two words. Very bad. Three words. Simply very bad. Four words. Don't ever read this. Ever. If you have any trace of knowledge or intelligence in your brain you will come away from reading this book feeling that you have completely wasted your time. A car wreck leaves Mandy blind and motherless, so she goes to live with her great aunt and uncle. There, in their home, she sees visions of her grandmother, Gwen. I guess this is supposed to be "irony", but it ends up becoming meaningless dialogue that clutters up the book and has no revelance to the topic. Zero. The book has no memorable ending and when I think of it all I remember is that I could have been doing better things. ....!

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Summary: The Window Review
Review: The book "The Window" is about a young 14 year old girl named Mandy who lost her Mother and eye-sight in a car crash. After the tragic incedent happened, Mandy is sent to live with her Aunt and Uncle. She has a little quiet room in the attic with a little window that has a nice view. One windy night Mandy goes to close the window when suddenly the wind seems to take her in. Mandy is suddenly taken back in time where she "see" and hear a 15 year old girl named Gwen. Mandy is able to see events that happened in that very same house that happened years ago. Mandy watches this 15 year old grow up and make huge mistakes that lead up to answeres' of why Mandy's family is so unloving to one another.
I would definetly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys suspence books. I thought that the author used a lot of good discription in the book. I felt that a book about a blind girl needs good dicription about her senses for touch hearing and smell. So my oppinion on this book was very good. I loved the idea of it and would definetly recommend it to anyone. -Thank You

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Summary: The Window Review
Review: The book, "The Window" was a very interesting book. I thought that the author put alot of discription in it. I usually don't like to read, however this book keept me on the edge of my seat. I think that the author's discription in this book was a very important key because it is about a blind girl going through so many diferent changes in her life. The author had to describe all of Mandy's(the blind girl) sences, tast, hearing, and touch. I felt this book was for ages 14 and up, because it has to do with teens 14 up. This book would be for readers that enjoy a good suspence and mysterious story. I definitly would recomend this book to anyone. -Thank You

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Summary: A review on The Window by Jeanette Ingold
Review: The Window by Jeanette Ingold is a book that lets you see what it's like to be blind and to be going through some of the toughest years of life at the same time. Throughout the book Mandy's opinion changes very dramatically on how she feels about her disability. At first she didn't want to have to depend on anyone for anything. She tried to do everything for herself. But as time went on she learned that asking for help is important because it lets people that are close to her feel needed. And sometimes she really does need their help, and in the book she learned to accept the fact that once you are blind you won't always be able to depend on just yourself. When rating this book I decided to give it 4 stars because yes it was a very good book, but I think that it could have been longer and that the author didn't really do a good job in making the window and what Mandy saw in it relevant to everything else going on in the book. Personally I think that the part about the window was good but it just didn't seem to make sense in the context of the book. I think that it would have been better if the window was some sort of mystery that she had to solve and that it would reveal some secret other than who her grandmother was. But other than that I would recommend this book to all of the girls in the world who are in the same stage of life as Mandy so that they can "see" life through the eyes of someone else who just so happens is not able to really see anything at all.

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Summary: The Window...
Review: The Window by Jeanette Ingold is a great book for young girls entering the uncertain time in their lives where they are being judged on hair, clothes style and personality. This story which explains the moral of being who you are, and not what others want you to be, is a perfect escape for young girls depressed by being picked on for being "fake." In this story Mandy, a blind girl of 15, goes to live with her Great-Aunt and Uncles in Texas. Left blind from an accident that killed her Mom, Mandy must learn to cope with what is. Lucky for her she easily makes friends with Hannah who will take no nonsense from Mandy and Ted, a hearing impairment friend who may just know what Mandy is going through. As she gets settled in to her Aunt's and Uncles' house, she learns a secret, a secret from her attic window, a secret about her family's past. Here Mandy learns the secret of where she came from, and how she was related to the strange new people she was now living with. With little kind shoves and pushes here and there Mandy is forced into the reality of what she must now live with, that she is blind. Still she has so much more than many other girls her age. She has great friends, she has the ability to see without actually using her eyes, and most of all she has family, people who care about her, love her, and will take care of her for the rest of her life. Out of five stars I would rate this a four, a great book with a little choppy dialog but terrific moral. I know I enjoyed reading this book as I am sure other will too.

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Summary: It's a good book.
Review: This a story about a 15 year- old girl named Mandy who has the prepective of two worlds. One of which is reality, and she is blind, living with her relatives, because her mom died in a car crash. The other world is a veiw of out her window where she can see, and has a veiw of her relatives hard past. It's a excellent book, and for $4.00 you can't go wrong. I aready own it, but if you don't I suggust you buy it. It's great!!

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Summary: Awesome!
Review: This book is about a 14year old girl named Mandy. She and her mother got in a very tragic actident. Mandy was parolized for life. She's blind. Her mom died. She now has lives with her great Aunt Emma. Her great Uncles gaberial, and Uncle Abe. Mandy has to sleep in the upstairs room.That night she here's a voice comming out her window. she leans out and hear's " Gwen Gwen were are you?Gwen come back". She figures out that Gwen is her grandmother that she never new about. She figures out more about her.I think that Jeanette Ingold was very good at describing the charters. I would recomend it to anybody.It's amazing!

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Summary: The Window
Review: Traveling from region to region was a common occurrence for Mandy, an only child, and her single mother. But a terrible car wreck left Mandy blind and traveling alone to a new city this time. Texas is full of challenges, as this teenager learns to adjust to her Great Aunt and Uncle's routine lifestyle. However, she finds a lot of love in her new household, makes friends at her school, and even finds a boyfriend. The fact that Mandy is blinded instantly prompts most people to "help" her. For the most part, Mandy does not need their help, and she certainly does not want it. As a matter of fact, she ends up giving more help than she could ever accept. She helps her Great Uncle reunite with his past, her best friend deal with her parents' divorce, her boyfriend face his deafness, and she even helps orphaned animals on the farm. The author uses the central picture of this young lady standing at the open window to take in the night air, to learn about the people from her past, to help her understand the present, and to guide her decisions in the future. The literary elements of irony, foreshadowing, and flashback beautifully intertwine to make the story flow well and end brilliantly that the themes in the book will stick with any reader forever. This story states the issues that all teenagers deal with, including teenagers with special needs. It recognizes how diversity should be appreciated and how any type of person can make great friends. Everyone needs help at times, and everyone can offer help at other times. Love, hope, and friendships form from being a good listener, believing in people and yourself, and trying. Life is not easy, but no matter what your circumstances are, you cannot run away from the hard times. Seventh grade and above could greatly appreciate the stories inside this book. It opens the door to many other topics including character education, history, geography, art, music, math, science, and of course language arts. This book deserves five stars. It is truly a great book.`