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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book,
By A Customer
This review is from: True Friends: True Friends (Paperback)
This book is wonderful, and I will recomend it to anyone. You can also learn something from it and it taught me how to be a better friend
4.0 out of 5 stars
Friendship, it's Friendship,
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This review is from: True Friends (Hardcover)
Courtney, 12 has just started 6th grade. She appears to have most of it all - a stepmother who sends her to the stylist every week; a nice wardrobe; a loving father and an older brother in high school. The middle school she attends is very class conscious. The lunchroom hierchy of prime tables goes to students who have attended a better elementary school on down the tables near the garbage bins, which is where students from a poorer school are expected to sit. The same schoolyard justice is applied to the outside as well -- the better fields and equipment go to those who attended the more affluent elementary schools.
Sixth grade starts off with a bang when Judy enters the classroom, replete with cane. Judy, a girl with cerebral palsy lives by the credo of "if you fall down, you get up. Simple as that." She is bright; cheerful and at all times a realist. Courtney's father is not such a realist. He owns an auto body shop which supports the family and his gold digging wife Emily is ruthless, manipulative and a bigot. She puts Judy down because she lives in a housing project; she uses racial slurs to describe many of the residents in that neighborhood. Only Ben, Courtney's older brother sees through Emily and tries to clue their father in. Judy is never at a loss for lessons in self sufficiency. When Courtney's former friend's mother refuses to drive her home after cheerleading practice, she is forced to walk. Part of her walk takes her into a seedy side of town where she is hounded and chased by several boys in a classic Mustang. Desperate, she runs to the first apartment and knocks on the door. Whose door should that be but -- Judy's! Luckily, the girl's mother takes her in and also brings home the point about doing for oneself. Poor and proud, Judy and her mother have taken in laundry and sewing for their neighbors. Whenever Judy loses her balance, she is not helped back up, but encouraged with the words that she will get back up by herself. Matters come to a head when some class picture money is stolen and Courtney is the lead suspect. Luckily, during the worst of times, when her cheerleader pals shun her and school staff acts distrustful of her, she discovers who her friends really are.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Ashley's Book Review!!,
A Kid's Review
This review is from: True Friends (Hardcover)
Coutrney is an average 6th grader. Shs's excited about going back to school and being in middle school. On the first day in homeroom Lacy, one of the most popular girls in school asks Courtney to help her plan a party. Over the next few weeks Courtney and Lacy become really good friends they even go out for the cheerleading squad together. Lacy and Courtney make the 7th and 8th grade squad something 6th graders have never done. Mean while they meet Judy, a handicapped girl. No one knows what to do around Judy. One day Courtneys brother gets arrested because a guy that was riding in his car had drugs with him that nobody knew about. By the next day everyone at school knew what had happened and they thought Courtneys brother was doing drugs. All her friends turned their backs on her. All except one!
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