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For Your Eyes Only!

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Lucy learns some valuable things during the course of this book. She learns that a teacher can be a friend and confidant. She learns that writing about events and her feelings can be a wonderful release. She learns a lot about poetry, because it is her teacher's favorite thing, and he starts each day by writing a poem on the blackboard. The final thing she learns is about being judgemental. Sure, her classmate Andy is obnoxious and irritating. But once she sees why (his abusive stepfather), Lucy learns compassion.

Do you have a trouble maker in your class? Well if you do this is a great book for you. The book's name is For Your Eyes Only. The author is Joanne Rocklin and has 138 pages. This book has a trouble maker named Andy. Andy is a 6th grader who loves to collect shoe laces and supposedly has the mayor's shoelace. He is also a kid who experiences abuse in his home. He purposely trips his teacher and puts a snail toward where she is walking and she breaks her ankle. So now they have a substitute named Mr. Moffat who loves poetry. Every week he has a new poem up on the chalkboard. He gives each student a notebook and then asks them if he is allowed to read the students' stories. Each person has to write in the notebook. But his favorite student writer is a girl name Lucy.
Lucy loves to write. She lives in the same building as Andy. But she is concerned that she doesn't have her own privacy. So Mr. Moffat gives her the notebook but Lucy tells him it's FYEO, which that is short for "for your eyes only." Which Lucy pours herself and her heart on the notebook that Mr.Morffat gave her. But she also writes about her father leaving her and her mother. Also writes about how her dad lives in San Francisco and has another family.
Lucy has a best friend named Clarice. Clarice leaves Lucy for a girl named Brissana just because Brissanna knows more about poetry then Lucy. Then Lucy finds a new best friend that understands her life and that loves to read Lucy's poems. Then they make a club named THE INKIE PINKEYS because when they write with pen they get their pinkies all full of ink. Lucy thinks she is in love.
The book For Your Eyes Only is a book for whoever loves to write or who is falling in love. This book was a great inspiration for me because I have really close friends and family members that either told me or I was there when they were being abuse. I think the message of this book is that you should care about everybody even if they don't like you or you don't like them. Sometimes when you don't like someone and you say bad stuff about them most of the times it goes back to you. While I read this book I felt bad for the people who suffer from abusive people or who have no friends. You always need someone to talk to and what if you don't have any friends? Who are you going to talk to?

If you like laughter and halliarous comedy I have got the book for you.To bad this book isn't just For Your Eyes Only[FYEO].
This book is about a girl named Lucy who loves poety and wants to be in a poetry group,with her friend Beatrice, called the Inkly Pinkies because they write with their left hand, and smear pen in their pinkies. When she and Beatrice have finally planned out making the Inkly Pinkies she makes a friend named Maria who is rich and pulling Beatrice away.
Joanne Roklin pulls life and reality into one book seamlessly. This book is awesome!

When the new substitute teacher, Mr. Moffat, asks Lucy's class to keep journals, she writes everything, hoping Mr. Moffat can and will keep it all secret. Lucy writes her real, hardcore feelings about her best friend, her secret love, and her dream to write poetry one day. She also writes about the daily upsets that grind her down-her nasty old apartment building, her griping mother, and Andy, a hostile boy in her class who lives in her apartment complex with his mean stepfather. Andy, on the other hand, doesn't write at all. He just draws jet fighters, explosions, soldiers and mean cartoons of Mr. Moffat and the kids in his class.

Lucy wants to write poems like the ones Mr. Moffat puts up on the blackboard each week. But she doesn't believe she can write good verse because Lucy can't see any beauty in her life. Her mother's apartment is so small, Lucy doesn't even have a bedroom. Los Angeles is too smoggy, too full of cars and pollution --- the sky isn't even blue anymore. In stark contrast, Lucy's dad has a beautiful house in San Francisco, and a gorgeous new wife. But Lucy is so unhappy when she visits them that she can still see nothing good.

Then, one great day, a flock of ducks land in the apartment complex's pool. Lucy writes all about them, getting super involved in their lives. A change happens with all the kids who live in the complex. Even Andy begins to like the ducks; he starts drawing the flock and scenes of the pond instead of his usual grisly war pictures. Andy begins writing, too. And when he does, he tells Mr. Moffat a very big secret. One so big, it could save his life.

Lucy is so real, she feels like you've known her forever. You even grow to like and understand Andy, although it takes a little longer. And once you find out his secret, you really start rooting for him. There even is a very dramatic, surprise conclusion....but I won't give any of that away.

My favorite thing about this novel is the poems, poems that Mr. Moffat writes on the board, as well as Lucy's and the other student's ideas about each verse. And none of the poems are really hard to understand, or too long. They're all simple poems that are easy to read and to like. They sound best when read aloud. It's a nice way to learn a little about poetry, and see if you like it.

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY moves quickly and really holds your interest. It's got a lot of funny parts, too. It is beautifully written, and really shows you that you can make your own beauty --- through art and poetry --- no matter how ugly your surroundings may be. You must be brave enough to find your own beauty inside of you, and show the world how you see it.

--- Reviewed by Kate Torpie

This Book talks n=mostly about conflicts within families. Lucy is a good person and a good writer too. She writes poems. Andy is her brother and he hates her just because she likes to write and he doesn't. But when Andy discovers a secret about Lucy, the problems begin. Andy must decide whether to tell or write.

I really like the book because Andy discovers there are a lot of ways to talk about something. Andy knew that saying he hates Lucy wasn't right. Lucy wanted Andy to like her for the way she was.

I rewcommend this book because I really like the poems that Lucy wrote to the cereal. I really recommend this book for the people that like poems and have diaries or journals to write in.

In this book there are lots of conflicts with families. There are some kids that like poems, especially Lucy. She loves to wtite poems but her brother Andy does not, and he hates her for it. Until he discovers a secret.

The part that I liked the most was when there was a poem that was nicely written. I liked it a lot because the poem was true. I don't really like to write poems at all because they won't rhyme.

I recommend this book to the people who like poems. This book has some really good poems in it too. Please read FYEO by Joanne Rocklin!

The book I read was For Your Eyes Only (FYEO). The author is Joanne Rocklin. I give this book five stars because it is very funny. The best part of the book is when Andy writes in his notebook. I like this part because his pictures are very detailed. My favorite character is Lucy because she goes through her life in a notebook. This book is great. I really think you should read it!

This is one of my all time favorite books. It is amazingly good. There are lesson's learned, and it's really fun to read. I've read it 6 times!!!!!!! I can't stop! This is a really good book! Definately worth every penny :)

This book is one of my favorites.I like the charactors and how they act. I get to know them. If you haven't read this book, I suggest that you should.

I really liked this book because it had a great theme and neatcharacters. It also had a very surprising ending. The girl writes inher journal to her substitute teacher and she pours out your heart. It is F.Y.E.O!