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Title: Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson ISBN: 0-670-03566-1 Publisher: Viking Childrens Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (57 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Kate vs. Bad Kate
Comment: The book Catalyst is a very good book. It is about a teenager named Kate Malone. She is a straight-A science and math student, her father is a minister, she is an ace long-distance runner, and she is Mitchell Pangborn III new girlfriend. Kate applies to one college which is MIT. First, her dad comes to her school with the acceptance letter from MIT. When she read it, it said that she wasn't accepted. The same day she didn't get accepted to MIT, her father took in their neighbors, the Litch's because their house got burned down. Kate really doesn't get along with Teri very well because she stole her watch, which was really special to her. So now she has to live with Teri for a while and Kate's father wants to get people at the church to help and rebuild Teri's house. People are helping, but then something happens with Mikey (Teri's little brother) and that messes a lot of things up. There is also a secret that Teri has been keeping from Kate. Whats the secret? What happens to Mikey? Read this really good book to find out!
Rating: 5
Summary: Definitely gotta read this!!!
Comment: Catalyst is a fiction book that deals with situations all teenagers and most people face as well as bad situations that no one should have to be face. It is about a girl who is a straight-A science and math geek, ranked third in the senior class. She is a cross-country runner, and a minister's daughter named Kate Malone. Her boyfriend Mitchell Pangborn III has already decided to go to Harvard. Kate was still waiting on her acceptance letter from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), which is the only college she applied to. Kate life is spinning faster and faster out of control. When her father shows up at her school one day and gives her a thin envelope from the MIT admissions office. Inside the letter says we regret to inform you...! When she is rejected from MIT its like her whole world as come to an end. Then on top of being rejected, her neighbors, the Litch's house gets burned down and Kate's father invites them to come stay at their house. But Teri Litch isn't exactly Kate's best friend. In fact, Teri stole a watch from Kate! Kate has to share a room with Teri. When they move in a secret that the Litch family has been hiding comes out in the open. What is the secret? What will happen? And can Kate handle all of this without going insane?
By Jessica B.
Rating: 5
Summary: Catalyst
Comment: The preacher's daughter. Star Athlete. Straight A student. Upcoming Chemist. Kate Malone. Kate has dreamed of being the reincarnation of Marie Curie since she was in fourth grade. She has planned to follow her mother's footsteps and enroll into MIT for college and then become a famous chemist that will bubble her way into history books. Since she knew that she was going to be MIT, when sending out applications for college Kate neglected to apply to any safety schools. But things could not be better for her. She has a perfect boyfriend and will be going to the perfect school.
Life is not so perfect for Teri Litch, though. Balancing taking care of her little brother, Mikey a beautiful blond-haired, blue-eyed toddler, and her feeble mother, and keeping her house in one piece. School is not a priority for her. When she is at school she is constantly teased for her beefy appearance and lack of fashion sense. Teri can throw a mean punch and is constantly getting into fights with other students. Teri and her family live in a house behind of Kate's, on the other side of a hill.
Kate's perfect life was suddenly turned around when Teri's house was burned down and her father took responsibility, as the preacher, to take care of these dispossessed people. He invited them to live in his house until theirs was in better condition. The fire burnt down the barn and only affected the kitchen, roof, and attic on the house. But Kate's father decided that if the whole community could work together they would rebuild the whole house so not only would there house be in one piece again it would be ten times better than before. They tore down the whole house to the foundations and began to rebuild it.
All of a sudden the whole community was consumed in rebuilding a house for the Litch family. Since Kate was not to be trusted with a hammer. She was assigned to ferrying around Teri and Mickey. She took them shopping at the grocery store, she took them to school and daycare, and wherever else they required. Kate was fed up of putting miles on her precious car, Bert, and sharing her room with her snoring monster Teri, who she doesn't get along with to great.
The story of these two girls trying to get along is thoroughly enjoyable. Laurie Halse Anderson does an amazing job of creating very real quirky characters. This book has many layers. It will have you laughing uncontrollably and sobbing hysterically in the same chapter.
Anderson wrote another book before Catalyst entitled Speak. It was about a girl recuperating from the experience of being raped by an upper classman in her high school. Speak and Catalyst is very similar. They both have a dark plot with touches of sarcastic humor. They take place in the same town but are not sequels. I suggest both books. They are extremely rewarding and enjoyable. Laurie Halse Anderson is a talented writer that will entertain you and eyes. make you to see the world through another person's eyes.
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Title: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson ISBN: 014131088X Publisher: Speak Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson ISBN: 0689848919 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Feed (BOSTON GLOBEHORN BOOK HONORS (AWARDS)) by M. T. Anderson ISBN: 0763617261 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by ANN BRASHARES ISBN: 0385729340 Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman ISBN: 0786807695 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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