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  • Publisher: Scholastic Audio Books; Unabridged edition (May 1, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0545074584
  • ASIN: B003UYV1VK
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsCourtesy of Teens Read Too
By TeensReadToo on July 13, 2008
Format: Hardcover
I don't think that there's any way for me to summarize the complex plot that makes up the novel TROUBLE, but I'm going to try.

Henry's father always said that if you stayed far enough away from Trouble, Trouble would never find you. It was what Henry and everyone else in his family believed. Until Trouble came to their lives in the form of Chay, a young Cambodian teen. Henry's older brother, Franklin, had been jogging on the night Chay hit him. Chay said it was an accident but their community thinks otherwise -- because Cambodians don't belong there and are the cause of every disaster.

Filled with anger of the accident, Henry, his best friend, and Black Dog set out to do the one thing Henry and Franklin had planned to do - climb Mt. Katahdin. They don't know how they're going to get there, how they're going to survive, or anything about climbing mountains, but they know they're going to do it.

As their journey continues, Henry runs into the one he hates most. Chay is also running from Trouble, and the once-enemies become allies. Henry begins to realize that family is not always what it seems -- and sometimes you just can't run from Trouble.

All I can say is that this is an amazing book and should be required reading in every classroom. Not only were the characters real and three-dimensional, each with their own quirks and problems, but the plot was also drawn out perfectly, with the right amount of details and action. You could feel yourself being taken into their world and, though this is technically a historical novel, I could barely tell because it seemed so real.

While reading this book, you will feel your heart breaking for Chay but you'll also be hoping that everything turns out okay for Henry's family.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsWonderful!
By D. Bratt on June 1, 2008
Format: Hardcover
This is yet another wonderful work from a proven writer. While most people will market it as a book for young adults, a 50-something male like me found it to be a wonderful read. It's a book full of enough twists and turns to keep you turning the pages until you reach its remarkable conclusion. There's more than a fair bit of Trouble here, but also beautiful glimpses of Hope and Glory.
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4.0 out of 5 starsA great read for teens and adults
By someproseandcon on March 31, 2013
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While this isn't my favorite of Gary Schmidt's novels (that would be "Okay for Now" or "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy"), this is a quietly moving read. Henry's father has told him, "You build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you," but Trouble does find the family when Henry's older brother, while jogging, is struck by a pickup driven by a young Cambodian refugee, Chay Chouan, a student at the local high school.

Henry is a well-written character, but because this story is written in third-person, there isn't the strong and immediate "voice" of Doug Swiateck or Holling Hoodhood (both first-person narrators in other Schmidt novels). However, the supporting characters in the novel are brilliant, including Henry's friend Sanborne, his sister, his parents, his dog, and Chay, the Cambodian refugee.

Although the novel is powered by both a mystery and an adventure, the magic of the story is in the deft way Schmidt explores the deep challenges of being human and growing up. "Trouble" asks us to recognize that we often learn to live untruths as a way of coping with pain. Responding to the tragedies that have gutted his family, Henry answers the incessant questions of well-meaning people who wonder how he is doing: "And his family was doing fine. Just fine. They were all fine. They were all so fine they could be America's Fine Family. Fine." And as Henry's carefree boyhood dissolves before his eyes, he grows up into the realization that suffering isn't unique to him or his family: "A heart that has lost knows every other heart that has lost. Late and soon, loss is all the same."

As Schmidt writes, "The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all." And books like this one are powerful and compelling guides to that world.
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5.0 out of 5 starsRichie's Picks: TROUBLE
By N. S. VINE VOICE on June 3, 2008
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" 'It smells like you have a dog in here,' he said. 'A wet dog.' His voice was tight.
"It did not seem useful to Henry to lie about this.
"Especially since the dog came around the corner of the island and sat down, her head cocked off to the side so that the ear with the large missing piece stuck out.
"Now Henry's father's face grew tight, too.
" 'Get the dog out of here.' he said.
" 'I just saved her from drowning in the cove.'
" 'That was a mistake. You don't go looking for Trouble, Henry...Get away.'
"The last part was directed not at Henry but at the dog, who had come to sniff Henry's father to see if he might be at all interesting.
" 'Get away,' he said again. 'Black dog, get away.'
"The dog lifted up a paw.
"And Henry's father kicked her about as hard as a slippered foot can kick. Enough to skid her across the quarried stone floor.
"She did not cry out. When she stopped skidding, she turned on her back, put her feet up in the air, and showed her belly.
" 'Why did you ever bring that dog in here?' said Henry's father. 'Look at her. Who would want a black dog like that? Lying there, all beat up. Bleeding. Pieces of her missing.' He stopped. He leaned against the kitchen island and put his hands across his eyes. 'Pieces of her missing,' he said again. His body trembled, slowly, and then a little bit more, and a little more, like a building that is beginning to feel the earthquake starting under its foundations.
"Then his mouth opened, and though no sound came out, his silent howls filled the kitchen.
"Henry held his father. Tight. Very tight. He felt the black dog come back to them. He felt his father reach down to scratch behind her chipped ear.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsNo Trouble Here....just very good writing.

I “discovered” Gary Schmidt through the Wednesday Wars, and happily picked up Trouble. I found that the (2008 hardback) cover does not do the book justice: the back cover blip... Read more

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5.0 out of 5 starsso much to build on... immigration. ...

so much to build on...immigration...family issues...history! "if you build your house far enough from trouble, trouble will never find you..."

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5.0 out of 5 starsThere was nothing but trouble and grace.

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