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Title: It's unique but it's for required tastes!
Review: Salamanca has a lot on her plate. Her mother has taken off to Idaho and nobody will tell her anything. During the course of the book which is easy reading for adults as well, this Newbery Award winning novel displays a girl seeking the truth to rectify her life at the moment. There are revelations and the book is used in middle school classroom as an approved material. There is nothing objectionable about it though.The author does a very good job but I thought it could have been better and more dramatic with the revelations in the end of the novel. I felt the book needed another revision in order to succeed and really capture the essence of the story. Apart from that, the novel is interesting but it's not for everybody like myself. I felt at times that I was dragging the novel along but I did finish it and I enjoyed the story but would have enjoyed it more with better writing.
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