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Title: The Pinballs (Apple Paperbacks) by Betsy Byars ISBN: 0-06-440198-7 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 25 September, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.35 (49 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Ashtonishing
Comment: The Pinballs is a book about three children who are sent to a foster home. The three children are Carlie, Harvey, and Thomas J. Carlie is a fourteen-year-old girl who is at the foster home because her stepfathers abused her. Harvey is a thirteen-year-old boy who is at a foster home because his father had drinking problem and he couldn't take care of Harvey. Thomas J. is an eight year old boy who is at the foster home because when he was two his natal parents left him at the door step of the eighty-two year old Benson twins and they broke their hips walking down a path to their house and they couldn't care for him. So those three children were sent the Mason Foster Home. At first Carlie doesn't like anybody in the house, Harvey really doesn't communicate and Thomas J. talks too loud. What will happen to Carlie? What will happen to Harvey? What will happen to Thomas J.? Find out in The Pinballs by Betsy Byars.
I think the Pinballs was very good because most of the characters were dynamic. Betsy Byars painted a vivid picture of the characters. There is a very big lesson that taught in this book and you will have to read this book to find out. I would suggest this to any person above the age of ten.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book was a winner with us!
Comment: We just finished reading The Pinballs in our fourth-grade classroom. Most of us thought it was a great book. We felt that we learned a lot about what it's like for someone to have to leave his or her family and go to a foster home for a while. We were interested in how Carlie changes. At the beginning she is sharp-tongued with everyone and she's angry all the time. Later on, she begins to trust and really care about the other foster kids and Mr. and Mrs. Mason, the foster parents. Carlie is not the only one who changes. We saw that Harvey reaches a deeper understanding of his father. Instead of just hating him for running over his legs with his car, he becomes more understanding after realizing that his mother never answered any of his letters (his mother ran away to join a commune). We liked what Carlie and Thomas J did at the end of the book to bring Harvey out of his depression in the hospital. We're not going to say what that is, though, because we want everyone who reads this review to read the book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down
Comment: In the book we give the character, Carlie two thumbs up. The story is about three children living in a foster home with Mr. and Ms. Mason. Carlie cares about other people, and helps around the house. We like Carlie because she tried to help Harvey by saying, " You know, I can be a big help when there's a fight." Other kids should read about this character, because they could learn that they should care about people even though they dislike them.
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Title: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen ISBN: 0689826990 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Summer of the Swans (Puffin Books) by Betsy Byars ISBN: 0140314202 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson ISBN: 0064402010 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 13 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson ISBN: 0064401847 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 17 June, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt ISBN: 0374480095 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 January, 1986 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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