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    <body><![CDATA[Ugh, this was such paint by numbers historical fiction. Little girl ahead of her time (She wants to be a doctor like her daddy!) + vaguely quaint descriptions of daily life (Time to harness the horses and hang the laundry!) + awkwardly inserted Important Historical Events (The Triangle Shirtwaist fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18894539">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While this book was beautiful, as well as being a useful look at autism before we began to understand it, I think it is completely inappropriate for the age range for whom it was written.  Reviews suggest grades 5-8.  The serious subject matter, references to sex and a resulting pregnancy, and a ver...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9953489">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Genre/Category: mental illness/family/loss of innocence<br/>Read for &quot;oral author report: Lowry&quot;<br/><br/>Summary: Katy Thatcher grows up in a small town hoping to be a doctor like her father. On a trip to pick up the &quot;hired girl,&quot; Katy meets and befriends Jacob, a boy with a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76222427">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this with Kaitlyn and she loved it, even though it was a little sad. The Silent Boy is a boy with mental illness and the author was good about describing mental illness in a way a young child could understand. The characters were engaging and Kaitlyn had some good laughs. Overall, a good stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39303773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lois Lowery never disappoints! What a beautifully written book... <br/><br/>As the first-person narrator flashes back in time her voice changes subtly to reflect the age that she is in each chapter of the story. This book is short and poignant, and the author tells us apologetically from the very ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49842711">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book had a lot of issues of fitting in, individuality, and relationships. I liked the fact that the first time Katy met Jacob (a boy from a neighboring farm), she thought he was weird and unusually silent. People all Jacob's life have always thought he was too quiet for a young boy and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43054185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading The Silent Boy.  It seemed to resonate with me because I've been caring for a handicapped girl who has limited means of communicating but is still pretty smart in her own way, smarter than I give her credit for a lot of the time.  I figure that the character in this book &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47291753">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book because I wanted to read more of Lois Lowry's stuff.  The story is a woman's recollection that takes place in the early 1900s. I loved that each chapter had an old-fashioned b&amp;w picture at the beginning.  The plot was kind of weak.  There wasn't any big tragedy really or climax...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64960017">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This short novel written for young adults begins with narration from Katy, an eighty-year old lady who is telling her story for her grandchildren.  After her short introduction the story goes back to over 70 years ago and it is the beginning of the twentieth century.  Little Katy tells the story of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47248486">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a children's historical fiction novel that takes place in the early 20th century.  The main character, Katy, is the daughter of a small-town doctor, and she develops a friendship with Jacob, a silent, gentle boy from a nearby farm who is described as being &quot;touched in the head.&quot;  T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46085515">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is interesting in it's format more than anything else. Each chapter begins with a photo which Lowry then incorporates into the story as a character or location in that chapter. However, the story doesn't pick up until it's practically over. Sludge through it. The ending is beautiful and te...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47987707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hadn't thought much of the book through most of it, however, toward the very end an event happens that touched me deeply.  It's quite hinted at that something dreadful took place and before I got to the unveiling of that, I didn't know if I could continue reading this and thankfully, quickly reali...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69871826">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was so boring and tedious.  It was as if Lowry found the old pictures, had the idea to write a story about them, then forced the story.  The last few chapters were somewhat interesting when she changed her writing style a little and let the characters live the story rather than explain, ex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74104551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had the same feel as Of Mice and Men, which I hated... I thought the book was sad, but not in an inspiring way, as some books can be. It was simply depressing for the sake of being depressing. But it does shed light on how life was in the early 20th century, including how intimate subjects...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43694409">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Listened to this one on tape while working on Christmas cards. This is a story I think, in hindsight, I might have followed better had I read it. The narrator was good, but this tale jumps around in time a *lot* It's the memories of Katy Thatcher as a young girl in 1911. She is the daughter of the t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10850482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like her stories. I found this book intesting and I loved how she incorparated old photograf in the story. But I always run into a problem with her books. I don't like her endings. They always seem to unfinish to me. I don't usually get closured at the end of the book. But overall I like her story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40093106">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very quick read. Not my favorite of Lois Lowry's. Regardless of the title, it really doesn't talk a whole lot about this silent boy throughout the book. Yet by the end, you see the story really DOES have a lot to do with him, too.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book to introduce memoir writing.  The voice of Katy is deep and resonates throughout the whole book as kind, insightful and charming.  This type of book is outside of what Lowry usually writes and she did an excellent job!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved this book. It was one of my favorite stories ever. It was a little boring at the beginning but keep reading and it gets really good. With a surprise ending this book is definately one of my all time favorites.]]></body>
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