Reviews written by Sally Dicks

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May 04, 2015
Overall rating
 
5.0
Writing Style
 
5.0
Plot
 
5.0
Characters
 
5.0
Illustrations/Photos (if applicable)
 
N/A
Young Adult Indie
Great novel, great subject!!

** Spoilers!!** The Men in the Trees is a novel about a young woman who's a mother of a young boy and trying to make her life into something in the town of Corvallis, OR. Meryl is a very smart person and very clever too. She's made it on her...

April 13, 2014
Overall rating
 
3.8
Acting
 
4.0
Story
 
4.0
Effects
 
N/A
Dialogue
 
4.0
Adaptation Quality
 
3.0
A good adaptation of a great book

I actually saw this movie before I read the book and I liked the book much better but i guess thats to be expected. The movie was pretty good and I think Emma Watson and Ezra Miller were brilliant. Logan Lerman was super cute as kind of the neurotic...

March 30, 2014
Overall rating
 
4.0
Plot
 
4.0
Characters
 
4.0
Writing Style
 
4.0
Illustrations/Photos (if applicable)
 
N/A
Young Adult Fiction
selfish girl goes bye bye

People are always fascinated by those who treat them badly and thats exactly what Margo Roth Spiegelman does to Q in this book and he just EATS IT UP! This is a good book but I found myself getting it really mad at both of them. Her for...

February 25, 2014
Overall rating
 
4.5
Writing Style
 
4.0
Illustrations/Photos (if applicable)
 
N/A
Learning Value
 
5.0
Compelling and inspiring

This is a book based on the real life story of how Navajo used their own language and a code they invented to confuse the Japanese and Germans during world war 2. The tragedy of it is how badly the rest of America treated these heroes who did so much...

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