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    <body><![CDATA[I am reading a book called Absolutely Normal Chaos. This book is about a girl named Mary Lou Finney.  She tells us about her summer (she is telling her journal this) sometimes she is also living the events she talks about.  She has a friend named Beth Ann who is using her Mary Lou's cousin (Carl Ray...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14175490">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, Alpha Omega! Oh, King of Kings! I enjoyed reading this book :D! <br/>It's written as a journal of a 13 years old girl. The journal was supposed to be an assignment for her summer vacation, turn out that the girl--Mary Lou Finney--was really into writing in her journal. She filled up six little ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20252123">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mary Lou can’t stand romances. And she doesn’t like her cousin Carl Ray. When he comes to visit, and all he does is sit around and say “yup” a lot, she gets completely fed up. But Mr. Furtz and Alex Cheevey come on the scene. Mr. Furtz offers Carl Ray a job and dies soon after. Alex gets a g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47413071">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This companion book to &quot;Walk Two Moons&quot; follows one of the minor characters from that book, Mary Lou Finney, as she navigates the pitfalls of family, friends, and boyfriends during the summer between seventh and eighth grade.  Mary Lou's cousin, Carl Ray, comes to live with her family, add...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70540535">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Mary Lou Finney is less than excited about her assignment to keep a journal over the summer. Boring! Then cousin Carl Ray comes to stay with her family, and what starts out as the dull dog days of summer quickly turns into the wildest roller coaster ride of all time. A wonderful story of contemporary teen life.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[June 22<br/>This book was veryyyyyyyy interestinnnnnnnnng. And that was imitating half the words in the book. How about I make my review sound the way she wrote this book?<br/>I thought this book was prettttttty gooddddd. Good ole Sharon Creech has written wayyyyyy better though. I didn't think it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60668550">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Mary Lou Finney is less than excited about her assignment to keep a journal over the summer. Boring! Then cousin Carl Ray comes to stay with her family, and what starts out as the dull dog days of summer quickly turns into the wildest roller coaster ride of all time. A wonderful story of contemporary teen life.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmm... it's pretty cool. It reminds me of my journal... yup. So, I just finished it. Ya, it really is a pretty good book. It's about this girl and her journal. And her cousin comes to stay with them during the summer, and there's a whole bunch of crazy drama. But in the end (I don't think this is t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60351195">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Absolutely Normal Chaos is one of Sharon Creech's four novels for children, including  the prizewinning <em>Walk Two Moons</em>  (1995 Children's Book Award and W H Smith Mind Boggling Books Award1996). Creech's  hallmark is a funny, poignant, involving narrative which leaves the reader guessing and at the  same time savouring delights along the road. <em>Absolutely Normal Chaos</em> takes the form of  daily journal entries by the delightful Ohio 13-year-old, Mary Lou Finney. Things seem ordinary  enough until her gangly 17-year-old cousin, Carl Ray from West Virginia, comes to stay. Before  she knows it, their next door neighbour has died, Carl Ray has inherited large sums of money and  she finds herself falling in love for the first time. And then, as though that wasn't enough, Carl Ray  nearly dies in a car accident. The learning curve for Mary Lou is as steep as the enjoyment curve  for the reader who could be anyone between the ages of 12 and 16. --<em>Tamsin Palmer</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Sharon Creech NEVER seems to write a bad book, and in this volume she managed a work of heart-wrending emotion and laugh-out-loud comedy unlike anything I have seen this side of Cynthia Kadohata's &quot;Kira-Kira&quot;. I really should not be surprised when Sharon Creech pulls masterpiece after mas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50182483">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book depends if you like books that goes like dairy's or journals .<br/><br/>If you take this book by my opinion I think this book is hilarious in some parts and sad in others.Like there is this girls named Mary Lou Finney and she had four brother and one sister.Marys friend Beth Ann that bra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57236263">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What can Mary Lou Finny say? Her cousing Carl Ray? Or her crazy family? Beth Ann? Her best friend? Or Alex Cheevy? Her boyfriend? Whrn Mary Lou's cousin comes in to find a job Mary Lou finds out shocking secrets about her cousin Carl Ray....... <br/>Beth Ann her best friend with Derek-the-diiiiiivn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49251755">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to read this book over the past summer for school, and I didn't exactly 'enjoy' it. I read it two days before school started due to my issue of putting things off, and I only read half of it. That was all I needed to read to do my report, and all the concentration left I had to read this book....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38877713">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is supposed to be the most autobiographical of Creech's novels.  Maybe because of that I found the characters (Mary Lou Finney, the narrator, was in 'Walk Two Moons') and story a bit mundane.  I think Creech should rely more on invention and less on memory.  Still, there  is much to recommend i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71833884">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is wrote in a journal style. Mary Lou Finney is writing in her journal everyday in the summer, and she meets some very interresting days, and also some really boring days. And so she writes and writes until she actually needs another notebook. So anyone who likes diary-type style writing s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41464917">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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