Gone from Home: Short Takes

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Summary: Jumping all over the Place!
Review: A Review by Jake
This book's main characters are " Sweetness " , a girl in the book that is the main character , and a boy and also her mentor Walter. Her and Walter meet in school one day in the lunchroom of their school. Walter was eating his lunch all by himself , like he always does , while Sweetness approached him. They were a little scared of eachother at first but then they became best of friends.

Walter had a rough childhood which included his mother and father excluding him from them in a way that it really brought him down. His brother died at a young age in a drive-by shooting while Walter was at a young age also. He is emotionally scared from his death but over time he has become a better person because of it. He now spends his time continuing school while he is a underground artist on the side. The pictures that he draws are different than others artists work-he draws pictures of barns. Whenever he sees a barn that is obscure to him , he draws it. He had a reputation of drawing alot in his early years of school. He would draw pictures on the walls of the school in alot of places that he went. Because of this he obviously got in trouble. This is what attracted Sweetness to Walter. She knew that he was different than everone else so she made an effort to become friends with him. Throughout there years of friendship , Sweetness would meet Walter at the neighborhood park in which he would pick her up in his truck and they would go to a secluded area so they could spend time together and have picnics. Overtime , Sweetness and Walter friendship transformed into a relationship.

If I were to rate this book , I would probably rate it a 2. Why would I rate this book a 2? Because it is a very complicated book to understand and it never really hes a rising action. It never really stuck to one plot , it was always jumping all over the place which is very confusing. Because of this it was a very boring book and I would not recommend this book to anyone.

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Summary: A Good Book!
Review: I really enjoyed this book. It was funny and also a quickread. Although nothing absolutely phenomenal about it, it was verygood. It is an interesting collection of stories about twelve different people. The stories were not very varied and seemed somewhat similar. Howevever, they were still funny and imaginative. I really enjoyed this book and would reccomend it for a quick read.

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Summary: Take time to savor the Short Takes
Review: This book should be read like you eat a box of very expensive chocolates--very slowly, enjoying and savoring every morsel. Each of these stories packs a whollop of emotion and meaning. If you rush through them, you'll miss it. Let it sink in. Only a very skillful writer like Angela Johnson can say so much in so little space. It's been weeks since I read them, and I've read many books since then, but these stories haunt me, and I am glad. This book is intended for young adult readers, but many adults would do well to take the time to read this slim collection.