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Won't Know Till I Get There

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Steve is an only child until one day his parents decide they want to adopt. They discuss it with Steve and he has no objections; he thinks it will be cool to have a little kid looking up to him and following him around. Soon Steve learns that this kid has a criminal record and is thirteen-year-old Earl Goins. Steve doesn't want to look weak or un-cool to Earl so he decides to spray-paint "Royal Visigoths" on an old train, but the whole gang gets caught and is forced to work at Micheaux House. They all learn that there is more to people then meets the eye.
I enjoyed reading this book because I haven't read anything quite like it before. It has a good life-lesson that I think everyone should know and respect. The characters are witty and sarcastic, and I think anyone in middle school would enjoy reading it.

The Worst Way To Spend Your Summer Or Is It? Four young black teens from New York are caught by the police spray painting a rail road car and are sentenced to work in an old folk's home for the summer. One of the young boys has been in trouble with the law several times before but finds he has more in common with the seniors from the home than the others. They are forced to be together, none or them liking the circumstances that brought them together; however, as they get to know each other they find their lives are changed. Earl, the boy who has been in trouble before is living with Steve and Steve's parents on a trial basis but wants to have a permanent home. The book is written as if Steve Perry is writing to his journal. If you like good humor mixed with serious problems dealing with old age then you would like this book as I did.

This book is a bout an only child whose parents decide to adopt a brother for him the kid finds out that the kid is not the best of children so to impress the kid he spray paints graffiti onto the side of an old rail road car and gets caught red handed he gets a choice he goto juvinielle hall or he can work in an old folks home for a a month or 2 he of course chooses to work with the elderly and it's a wonderful tale of basically what happens to him his freinds and the old that he works with.

This story is about a group of four kids that get into trouble with the law.As punishment the kids have to help the senior citizens that live at Micheaux House Senior citizens home.The senior citizens that live there are both black and white.After
reading this book you will find out that the senior citizens home might get closed down. In order to try to save the home the senior citizens decide to open a deli and the kids help.

I thought this book was funny because of the waythe people talk and the the words that they use. The pedicaments that the kids and the senior citizens get intoare pretty funny also.Plus the problem in this story probably happens every day,and this book tells you about a group of people that are different nationalities and age s worked together to try to save a senior citizens home. So all in all I thought this book was funny and realistic.

Book was in excellent shape to cost 1 cent! Took a little while to get here but it made it right at the nick of time.

Kevin Buie
This story is about a family with only one sibling named Steve. His two best friends are, High-Note and Patty, and they play baseball, basketball, and hang out everyday. One day, his parents call him to the kitchen and asked him a lot of questions, and then they said that they have given it a lot of thought, and they thought it would be best to adopt a child Steve's age. When the orphan showed up, it was the Juvenile Delinquent, thirteen-year-old Earl Goins.
This book would be better for younger children because it teaches you a lesson about, that mean kids can be nice if you are nice back.

Won't Know Till I Get
There
" The Adopted Kid"

This story is about a family that has lived their life
with one child and has done well. His name is Steve. He is 14 years old and enjoys his life with his friends; Hi-Note,
and Patty. Steve gets called into the living room one day and is asked many questions. It started off. "Me and your mother have given it a whole lot of thought, and we would like to bring another child into the house". That's when all the action began. I thought the book was very interesting. It let me know that a lot of people who are struggling with the same situation around the world every single day. The book would especially be good for young kids. Young kids would enjoy listening to a story like that. My favorite character in the story is Hi-Note. He tries his hardest to be tough with Steve's adopted brother Earl. Anyway, Hi-Notes personality is so predictable from my prospective. All through the story you can predict what he is going to do or say.
He kind of reminds me of myself. I like basketball and love to hang out with my best friend. I also like to pick fights with people that are smaller than me, but stronger.

The Main Character of my book is Steve. He's thirteen, likes basketball, and collects nickels. His best friend Hi-note is the toughest guy on the block until Steve's parents adopted a thirteen-year-old kid named Earl. Hi-note and Steve try to prove to Earl that they are tough by spray painting the word Visigoths. They tell these teenage guys that's the name of their gang and they always spray paint their gang name on trains. Well what they didn't know about these guys was that they were the Royal Transit Police. The police sent them to court and the judge gave them the choice of spending a little time in jail or work at an old age home. Hi-note, Patti, Earl, and Steve. While they were at the old age home they try to get along with the old people but they are very grumpy. Later on in the book they find out that the reason they are so grumpy is because they keep calling them old folks and not seniors and they keep on helping them like there a child. After they find out that was the only thing wrong with the seniors

This book was really good. It makes you understand what everybody feels like inside. I really and truly couldn't put it down. I am very interested in the different people and how they think, act, and so forth. Even though everybody had their own opinion I am sure that it will be the same about this book and that is good! I can't really think of another book that I can compare it to but that is a good thing. Because it was unique in most books you can predict the ending but in this on e you could try and would come nowhere near guessing! I can't really say anything bad about this book which is called Won't Know Till We Get There. Its about a group of kids who don't' know the difference between right and wrong. They teach you that it is better to be a leader than a follower, I am positive that you and you're friends will like this book just as I did. I bet you wont' be able to put it down either! Have fun reading!

-I didn't really like the book Won't Know Till I Get There because it wasn't very exciting. It also bothered me how it was in the shape of Stephen's diary. Some people might like it like that, but I didn't. If I had to rate this book from a one to a ten, I would have to give it a four. This book was slow moving and the plot wasn't that great either. The book was about how four kids got into trouble because they told some under cover cop's that they were a gang, and they had to work in a seniors home all summer. How interesting can a senior's home be? It almost can't be, at least not in this book. I liked how they pretended to be a gang, but that's about the only part I liked. I've never really read any books like this book, and I've never read a book by Walter Dean Meyers until now. I doubt I will be reading more books by him. I would not recommend this book to anyone who likes action books, because there is no action in this book at all. If you like children's books then you might like Won't Know Till I Get There, I did not like it, but there is a chance you might like it.