Customer Reviews

Trading Places with Tank Talbott

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Trading Places is an exciting book!

With respect to the reviewer's 3 star rating, I'd like to express two points.

1.) What might be predictable to an accomplished writer/reviewer is probably not predictable to a teenager. So the teenager finds this story interesting and not predictable.

2.) I think of some people who told me that they didn't see the movie Titantic because they knew the ending. $1 000 000 000 later, I still find that reasoning shallow.

When we drill down, most stories are not truly original. We all know that the value of story is in it's development and execution.

Trading places has an excellent plot. This book is funny while addressing some serious life issues for children.

Ms. Butler's has a special talent of writing books that are both whimsical and important.

Jason Pfeiffer has a passion for writing horror movies, especially ones that star his sister as the monster. Tank Talbott has a passion for beating kids up. When Jason discovers that he and tank can be mistaken for each other, he comes up with a plan allowing Tank to get out of dance and himself out of swimming. The switch gives Jason a new appreciation for Tank as the two become friends. This novel will likely appeal to readers with its humor and predictable, but enjoyable, plot.