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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book in...8th grade, I think. I then went on to re-read it at least five times. <br/>Hope Was Here is about a 16 year old girl who lives with her aunt - the two of them find work at the beginning of the book at a diner in Wisconsin owned by a man with leukemia. Addie is a cook, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13002650">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Hope Was Here is about a young, 16 year old girl names Hope who has lived with her aunt, Addie, her whole life because her birth mother, who is a waitress, didn't’t want the responsibility of a baby at the time she was born. She has never met her father and she often thinks about what it would be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44696314">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     Hope Was Here was such a moving book. It taught many lessons like no matter who or what you are you can always be a leader, have confidence, faith, and hope in yourself and you will succeed, live life to the fullest because you never know when your day to die has come. This book was about a gir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73041155">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed the main character, Hope, whose name really suits her attitude towards life. In spite of her difficult upbringing and her pathetic self-centered mom, Hope manages to remain flexible and positive, and endears whomever she contacts to her. While I agree that some of the story is somew...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29511529">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hope hasn’t had an easy life. She was abandoned by her mother when she was a baby, and has lived with her Aunt Addie, a cook, since then moving from place to place in search of work. In her latest move, she and Addie left a great diner in Brooklyn to go to a small town in Wisconsin, when Addie’s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62223637">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hope is a 17 year old waitress.  She's still in high school, but the story mostly spans a summer, so she's working full time.  I think young people would enjoy Hope's reflections on how to be a good waitress since young people often long to be skilled at something.  Hope takes her work seriously and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41165067">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hope has moved around a lot in her young life.  She lives with her aunt, Addie, who has basically been a mother to her since she was born.  When an unscrupulous business partner takes off with her aunt’s savings and forces her to close the diner she owns, Hope and her aunt move to Mulhoney, Wiscon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77023285">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Coming of Age/Leukemia/Politics<br/><br/>Hope is a teenage girl who lives with her aunt, Addie. When they move to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, Addie becomes a restaurant cook for G.T. Stoop, a kind-hearted man suffering from leukemia. With Hope waitressing and Addie's fantastic cooking, the diner becomes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80446039">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[WOW! This book was amazing. I had so many different emotions. I was so shocked when G.T. died, when he married Addie, and when he wanted to adopt Hope. He had lukiemia (live the day not the cancer)and still ran for mayor. The other guy running for mayor won, but there was a mistake because Mr. Wolde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56552491">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hope was tiny when she was born and her mom couldn’t cope; Hope’s mom gave Hope to Hope’s aunt to raise. Hope’s aunt, Addie, is a fantastic cook but she and Hope are always moving. <br/><br/>The one thing Hope’s mom gave Hope of use to her was the secrets of waitressing. Hope and Addie s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64794235">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe even 4.5 stars.  This was my second Newbery Honor book--and second tear jerker--in a row.  The story is thoroughly readable and deceptively simple.  The characters are funny, lovable (or hatable, in a classic good v. evil way), and thoroughly flawed, which makes them easy to relate to.  Hope i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70604512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amy Kinjo                                                                   September 27,2009<br/>                                  <br/>    Hope Was Here  By Joan Bauer ISBN 0-399-23142-0<br/>    Hope is a sixteen-year-old girl. Her life involves and is surrounded by food. Her aunt Addie, that s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74189368">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed listening to this book.  The girl who narrated it did a great job.  <br/><br/>It was fun to listen to this because I live in a small town with a mayor in his sixteen thousandth term, and while I don't want to say he is corrupt, I do think it would be good to have change.  So liste...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55670945">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was excited to read this book  because it's about a young waitress finding redeeming things about a small town and I am a young waitress living in a somewhat small town. :P However it was a bald and boring book. It read fast and easy and I didn't feel at all friendly or intimate with the character...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41656835">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good book. The style and story line was a lot like Sharon Creech. Its about a young, intelligent girl trying to discover herself.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely ADORED this book!<br/><br/>When looking for an &quot;H&quot; book for the &quot;Merry Christmas Challenge,&quot; I looked on my teenage daughter's shelf for something to read.This one looked promising and was a Newberry Honor Book. It's a YA book,but I've read plenty of &quot;ya&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39715716">more...</a>]]></body>
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