The Wind Blows Backward

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Summary: very emotional, for every girl
Review: This book is for every teenage girl. This book is filled with raw emotion and love. It's amazing and captivates you from page one until the end. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. It's amazing.

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Summary: The Wind Blows Backward
Review: My opinion about this book is it was a love story and in some parts it was good. The people who would like this book is would have to like love stories. I like the being when it just got into datails rght away. the charicters in this book were different they had different ways of thinking. My faviorte part is when he comes back and tells her what had happened. The book gave details all the way through the book. The people in this book fit perfect for the style. One thing that I diddent like about the was that they would stay to one subject forever. In some parts of the book of the book it was really slow and boring. Another thing that I did not like was she pushed him away and she not have.I did not like the fact that the mother was so blind. The last thing I did not like the title of the book.

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Summary: The Wind Blows Backward
Review: Lauren has had to deal with struggles all her life. She is constantly made fun of in school, her father left her family when she was only five years old, and she has never been very close to her mother. In her senior year of high school things start looking up, her friend, Spencer, from Junior High, starts to notice her again and talk to her. But she soon find out that the reason he needed to talk to her was because he couldn't find anyone that would undertand him anymore. He confides in Lauren and tells her that he has been thinking about suicide. He is having aq hard time dealing with life, he feels like a failure to his family. He feels like he can't fit the mold of the perfect child anymore. Lauren is the only one Spencer can depend on anymore and she has to prove to him that life is still worth living. This book gives you a look into Lauren's life and the conflicts she has to deal with in everyday life.

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Summary: Appropriate for a 12 yo?
Review: I'm writing my review through the eyes of a mother of a 12 yo girl who loves to read and has read every Mary Downing Hahn books. When she did not put the book down up in her room, I thought it must be good. I skimmed the book later. I told her we needed to have a book discussion the next day. I felt that this book could have waited until she was older and more experienced as it contained material about having sexually intercourse, smoking pot, drinking and driving. I think MDH could have been more responsible writing about these issues by having Lauren listen more to instincts, quesioning her choices. Frankly Spencers mood swings and reckless behavior could have had dire consequences for Lauren.

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Summary: Love at first sight and still going strong
Review: I read this book at the age of 11 when I was in 7th grade. I just happened to pick it up when I was sitting in my boring English class, which was first period. It was almost new then, over the pass 5 years I have read the book too many times to count. It is now missing its back cover and is taped in many places but it is still loved very much. The book brings out feelings that many teens can relate to. It also brings hope to some and helps others understand. The book drew me in with the portrayal of a tragic love between Lauren and Spencer that prevailed under very strenuous conditions. This book was hailed the girl book of the year when it was published but I believe that not only girls but also boys will love "The Wind Blows Backwards".

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Summary: Great read.
Review: I read this book in grade 6 for the first time, and I checked it out of the library for six months. I found this a wonderful book, and I could identify with what the author was trying to convey. I read this book so much that I could quote passages from it word for word. Now, seven years later, I still have this book. I finally bought my own copy, after two years of searching for it. I haven't read it in a while, but the lessons I learned from it, and the love of poetry that developed from reading it, are still with me.

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Summary: after 5 years, this book still pulls at me
Review: i read this book for the first time when i was a freshman or sophomore in high school. i am now a junior in college, and i still think about this book and the powerful message it sends. i was in baltimore last night and it reminded me of the part in the book where spencer takes lauren to the inner harbor for the day and buys her the balloon... so, i've finally decided to buy the book because there are always parts that i think about but never have the book on hand to reread those parts. this is an amazing book!

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Summary: The Wind Blows Backwards and the Rain Makes Applesause.
Review: I will never EVER forget this book. The first time I read TWBB (9 years ago) I couldn't stop thinking about it. Since then I have aquired three copies of it. (all tattered and torn with underlined parts and dogeared pages) Spencer and Lauren's relationship has since inspired me in my own life and in my writing. I think perhaps this was the first book that awoke my love for creating my "own little world" in literature. I devoured it (like Lauren devours romance novels;) I think I have nearly memorized it. I have since read heavier and such books but this book... it has stayed with me as my number one favorite and it always will be. (me and my friend even started writing our favorite quotes on her bedroom wall and by the time her mom noticed it was too late;) All I can say is.. read it... then read it again and again. There will be something new each time. Every girl that read this book will fall hoplessly in love with Spencer and find Lauren to be kindred spirit like I did, every guy will be captivated by Lauren and envious and curious of Spencer and by the time you are done there will be a lump in your throat and tears in your eyes and you will want to find what these two have. This book and it's character has been a great friend to me.

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Summary: The Wind Blows Backwards blew me away
Review: The Wind Blows Backwards is one of the most powerful and influencial books that I have ever read. Though at first glance it might be confused with a pathetic teen romance, the book is the home to many deep, raw truths to which countless teens will relate. I found this book as a freshman in high school, and I have faithfully read it at least once a year since then. I would HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone who appreciates love and a terrific read!

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Summary: My Favorite!
Review: I loved this book. It was well written and entertaining, with an intriging plot. I think it's a wonderful book. I would, however, reccommend it only be read by those over 12 or 13, due to adult themes and other such things.

All and all, I loved this book, and I'd recommend it to almost anyone. (My mom doesn't like gloom, so she's one of the almost.)