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  <title><![CDATA[I'm Not Scared]]></title>
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  <default_description>A sweltering heat wave hits a tiny village in southern Italy, sending the adults to seek shelter, while their children bicycle freely throughout the countryside, playing games and getting into trouble.  On a dare, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano enters an old, abandoned farmhouse, where he stumbles upon a secret so terrible that he can't tell anybody.  As the truth emerges, Michele learns that the horror in the creepy old house is closer to home than he ever imagined.
--from the back cover</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2001</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Niccolò Ammaniti]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure how to describe this book. Is it a shattering of innocence, a coming of age story, a mystery, a suspense novel or is it all of these? I was drawn into the story immediately by the short terse prose, the descriptions of the countryside and the dialogue and actions of the young children i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75282020">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had worried that seeing the movie before reading the book would ruin the reading experience for me.  After all, I'm Not Scared is kind of a thriller.  But it turns out I worried for nothing: I'm Not Scared is a riveting read, even  if one already knows how the story ends.  The story is a beautiful...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2428761">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has nothing to do with a book review, but I started this book the other night on a whim after owning it for five years. I used to work at Shakespeare &amp; Company in Manhattan and bought it - at a discounted price! - based on a coworker's recommendation. So two nights ago, I was about 30 pages int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70670894">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw the movie based on this book a few years ago and loved it. And then just a couple of weeks ago read Niccolo Ammaniti’s book “The Crossroads&quot;...which I devoured and adored. Then, by some crazy coincidence, while I was in my rented apartment in Italy on vacation...there I come across th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73956904">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I happened to catch the latter half of the movie (it's in Italian with english subtitles)on Television one evening and was totally captivated. I loved the simple storyline and the actors did a great job. Soon after, I spotted this book at the used books' store I frequent (a double coincidence :))......<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13026750">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this novel, although I think the translation from Italian into English was poorly done. However, the story was unique,intriguing and kept me turning page after page after page!! The only really negative comment I have is that I was a tad disappointed in the ending. I won't say anyth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50129967">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;I'm Not Scared&quot; is a short tale of a hot summer that spells the end to a young Italian boy's childhood. Whilst playing with his friends in an abandoned old ruin, Michele makes a discovery that will change the way he sees his friends and family, and forces him to take giant strides towards...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56855373">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nine-year-old Michele Amitrano lives with his little sister, devoted mother and distant father in a rural Italian hamlet consisting of five dilapidated houses. In the sweltering summer of 1978, he and a group of his friends strike out on their bikes across the barren, scorched hills. While exploring...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44878930">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For me, this book was decent.  It is the story of a boy who is out and about with his friends and he finds a boy hidden in an abandoned house. He thinks that he's dead but then the boy moves.  He goes back later and talks to the boy.  He later discovers who in his town did this and becomes involved ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55554831">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This beautifully written thriller begins with descriptions of the swealtering summer heat of Southern Italy.  It reminded me of my years living in Sicily.  Michele is a typical 9 year old boy, who I saw many of my 4th grade students in his character.  He loves to race, ride his bicycle, and act on d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74449333">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76817264">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a coming of age tale about a young boy who stumbles upon a dark secret with links to his family. I hate to give away too much because the book is short and the plot should be a surprise.<br/><br/>It is well written with a beautiful sense of time, place and characterization. The main c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76817264">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would have liked to have given this a higher rating but the storyline just didn't capture my attention the way I thought it would. I just didn't feel the suspense that was supposed to be there.  It did have beautiful descriptions of the Italian countryside and lifestyle, which I did appreciate.  B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52109594">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great book to read when learning Italian, because it's told from the point of a view of a nine-year-old.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Niccolò Ammaniti's novel is a quick, sparsely but well-written, suspenseful read from start to finish. His landscape descriptions are easily the best I've read in the past decade and a literary treat. Ammaniti is also familiar with the psychology of children and both this novel and his other novel ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75679411">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72439312">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[''You are what you is'', is a song. And Michele can’t be anything else but himself. Trapped between his duties for family and his care for a new friend. Great narration and perspective. Michele never lost his purity and his loyalty was beautiful. <br/><br/>The thing I enjoyed the most was how Am...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72439312">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8092216">
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    <body><![CDATA[Translated into English by Jonathan Hunt and written by Italian author Ammaniti, this is a very dark yet compelling childhood tale - with many similiarities to Lord Of The Flies.<br/><br/>The account of nine-year old Michele's summer during 1978 in the tiny village of Acqua Traverse deep in the It...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8092216">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best thrillers I have read this year. This book is translated from the Italian version. The suspense in this book was not overpowering. It’s not one of those fast pace modern day thrillers. <br/><br/>It opens in a small isolated Italian town where a 10 year old boy discovers a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38375135">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was another fast read.  It's written from the point of view of a 9 year old boy and the author definitely captures that.  I feel like it's probably a lot better in the native Italian of the author instead of this English translation, but until I become fluent in Italian, I'll never know.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61198199">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A visceral exploration of life either filled with corrupt adults or deserted by loving parents.<br/>The children run the roost.<br/>Dramatic imagery stills with you long after the digestion of this meaty psychological novel is exciting and has a devastating moral tone.<br/><br/>This novel is rel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57811230">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 28 19:02:25 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jan 28 19:02:25 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the beginning, this struck me as a sort of cross between Stand by Me and Lord of the Flies. I wasn't immediately taken in, but it didn't take me too long to get into this. It's a coming-of-age with a thriller twist. I was hooked - read through the book in about a day and half and would have made ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43974913">more...</a>]]></body>
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