Word Out 2011

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Molly reviewed A Time for Dancing by Davida Hurwin

Julie and Sam are best friends. They are both very good at dancing. They are working towards their final concert and their tour with the rest of the dancing group. Then Julie has consistent pain in her hip and back. No one knows what it is. Julie and her mom go to see several doctors, and none of them know what is wrong. Finally the impossible is revealed. Julie has cancer.

This story is very touching. Close to the end of the book I was almost covering the pages with my tears. I found that this book reflects the problems in life, because every story doesn't always have a happy ending. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a story that is different and shows how someone can make the best of a very bad situation.

Gail reviewed Folly by Marthe Jocelyn

Folly is an amazing book and the author mangaes to squeeze in countles emotions in to less then 300 pages.  Folly is written in two perspectives, one in 15-year old Mary's perspective and the other in a young child named James.  Mary is sort of like your typical cinderella.  Her mother dies and her stepmother decides to send her away from the family and become a maid in London.  James on the other hand is a child that was abandoned by birth.  Living through the foster care, his foster paren'ts must send him back to the foster care centre when he turns six.  The years that both these perspectives take place are about 8-10 years apart.  Mary's narrations are from around 1876-1878 and James is from 1884.  Throughout the whole story, both characters fall in to a sort of trap.  Mary conflicts with the other maid in the house, Eliza, and starts to fall in love with a man ultimately committing the greatest sin possible.  James flees the foster centre and is left homeless on the streets. Both characters truly  grab you and it's hard not to feel sympathetic or share the saddness that they are experiencing.  The ending of the story also has a sudden twist that is quite rewarding.  In my opinion, it answered alot of questions that i thought of and couldn't find an answer too.  The title of this book is also quite ingenious.  Folly essentially means being foolish and throughout the book, the word folly tends to appear quite often.  When i read this book, i really felt that the majority of the writing was focused on the character's emotions. Often there would be alot of descriptive paragraphs to aid in the understanding of a character's feelings. The settings are nicely explained.  And the character's actions are also described very in depth.  Personally, I found folly to be a very heartbreaking story but that really depends on how emotional you are.  I would definitely recommand this to those who enjoy reading emotional stories or just those that would like to understand how the people in the lower classes survived back in the  late 1800's.

Sophy reviewed Bloom by Elizabeth Scott

This book is written in the point of view of a girl named Lauren Lee Smith. She appears to be quite average, and she is apparen'tly a very lucky girl. She's dating Dave, who is the perfect guy through many of the swooning girls eyes at their high school. An outsider would assume that Lauren would be a fairly happy person, but they do not understand the real, raw emotions behind her happy exterior. Growing up without a mother can be extremely tough, but it doesn't make it any easier when her father is almost never around either. Lauren is finding herself trying to fulfill an image that is not her true self. Until she meets a new guy named Evan, and realizes she is destined for more than just the life she has restrained herself to.

This is definitely a great read and I would strongly recommend it! I couldn't even put it down when I first began reading it because it just kept getting more and more intense.