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A review by reader4evr
Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead
3.0
Well this was interesting...I'm not sure if it was a great choice to add to the Caudills list (student readers choice award in IL) but hey, who asked me? I'm still thinking about this book but I don't know if I would go out and recommend this book.
The story was super realistic with the whole cyberbullying instance in it. I didn't even know going into the story that it was about cyberbullying because it doesn't mention at all in the summary or in a subject tag in the MARC record. I don't like how the whole situtation kind of was dropped and even though I'm glad parents/teachers got involved in it, it just kind of fizzled out. I think this book had too much drama and I think I would rather watch tv shows like this but not sure about a book.
I did enjoy the audio for this book (good narrator) and the format of the book with Sherman's letters to his grandfather and the annoymous character that you follow throughout the book on Valentine's Day (side note- I read a review and it said that you never find out who they are but you do!).
I enjoyed When you hear me better.
The story was super realistic with the whole cyberbullying instance in it. I didn't even know going into the story that it was about cyberbullying because it doesn't mention at all in the summary or in a subject tag in the MARC record. I don't like how the whole situtation kind of was dropped and even though I'm glad parents/teachers got involved in it, it just kind of fizzled out. I think this book had too much drama and I think I would rather watch tv shows like this but not sure about a book.
I did enjoy the audio for this book (good narrator) and the format of the book with Sherman's letters to his grandfather and the annoymous character that you follow throughout the book on Valentine's Day (side note- I read a review and it said that you never find out who they are but you do!).
I enjoyed When you hear me better.