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Pawns

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Pawns by Willo Davis Roberts was an excellant book. It was very suspenseful. From the beginning to the end you could not really predict the next move of any character.
The main charcter was a teenage girl around fourteen years old, her name is Teddi. Teddi at first looses her mother to cancer, then since her father can't handle it he commits suicide right in their garage where Teddi would easily find him. While her mom was dying, her next door neighbor Mamie would help take care of her. So when both of Teddi's parents died Mamie didn't want to let Teddi go into foster care she made a deal with social services so Teddi could stay with Mamie. While Teddi lived with Mamie, Mamie's son Daniel died in a horried plane crash. Not even living with Mamie for a total of six months Teddi's life changed dramaticaly. When one day the door bell and Mamie's daughter-in-law shows up pregnant. Teddi is very suspicous on why Mamie was never told that her son was married or about to be a father. Mamie was thrilled because she thought she would never see her son again but with a granson coming there would be a part of her son in him. The women's name is Dora. Even though Dora is pregnant she is very lazy and thoughtless. Once the baby comes it's a boy named Danny after the father. Dora starts to do more when the baby comes not that's it's good. She steals money from Mamie and sneaks away from home at night to who knows where. Meanwhile in Teddi's old home a new family moves in. There are three kids none her age but a boy about 3 or 4 years older. They become friends and start hanging out together playing tennis. His name is Jason. He even begins to be suspicous of Dora.
The ending has a twist to it and the truth comes out. In certain parts of the book you can see what the author is saying because the author is using excellant imagry. A lot of irony was used.
I would recommend this book to anybody not only because it's an excellant book but because escepically teenagers can relate to this book. Most teens don't like to read but this would just take them away from the world and into the book.

I thought that this was an excellent book. It has all the charcteristics I wanted it to have, sadness, and realashonships between people. This isen't a book that keeps you on the edge of your seat but it is very interesting to read. There are many deaths in it though. If you do not like sad books you should not read this book.

I read this book and it put me to bed, litarally. There are way too many things happening. Its Dull, Boring A Snooze~a~thon anyway you put it its BORING~!~

I read the cover and from what it said, I knew what the outcome of the book would be. The only reason I read it was because I wanted to know how the conclusion actually happened. You can read the first chapter, and from the lame story Ricky's "wife" gives, you can tell it's all fake. There are some interesting subplots in the book though. The book wasn't that bad, but you shouldn't read it if you're over 13 or 14.