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  <title><![CDATA[Begging for Change]]></title>
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  <default-description>Fourteen-year-old Raspberry Hill is still struggling to find security in her life. More than anything, she wants a father who will love and protect her, like Zora's dad. When her mother is attacked, Raspberry does the unthinkable: she steals money from Zora, her best friend. It's only when her thieving, drug-addicted father returns that Raspberry begins to wonder whether betraying Zora will cost her more than she can ever repay. Is Raspberry destined to follow in her father's footsteps? Raspberry is certain . . . something's got to change.</default-description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sharon G. Flake]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book so far is wonderful. Not confusing one bit. It makes me feel like it's my own life. Because of the things going on in this book. Amazingg READ fo sho!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 06 15:59:12 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I REALLY WANT TO READ THIS (YAH'NAY) WHEN UR DONE CAN I READ IT SEEN LIKE IT WILL BE AVERY GOOD BOOK]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i learn for this book not to steal stuff that's not yours. its about a girl her mom gets in the hospital by getting hit by one of her friends. she stills from her friend that was money. so her dad breaks in her house still her money. the daughter helps her dad not get in jail so he gets hit in head ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38389843">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Begging for Change is an elegant book of overcoming the most arduous situations and moving away from them. Flake has captured through life of 1 teen and made it into everyday life for everyone. In Begging for Change, Raspberry Hill is a 14-year-old girl who refuses to be homeless anymore because her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1651032">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was really compelling.  I haven't seen a lot of books for younger kids that deal with serious topics like this.  With that said, even with the serious issues, I didn't feel like Flake was heavy-handed or trying to hard to teach lessons.  The neighborhood descriptions and the char...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30652262">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was pretty good.  I liked Rasberry's inner struggle and how it was resolved.  I do hope that her father straightens himself out, but he needs to stay away until he's on his own 2 feet and not stealing from his 14 year old daughter.  I liked how Rasberry's mom resolved her own str...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33408204">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Begging for change is the sequel to Sharon G. Flake's earlier novel Money Hungry. Its about a 14 year old girl named Raspberry who has gone through so many rough times at this early stage in her life. From being homeless to having an drunk bum as a father, Raspberry ultimately has no one to turn to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40863058">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Raspberry Hill, the protagonist of this book, is a fourteen-years-old girl.  Her father is addicted to drugs and her mother used to do drugs.  However, she is badly beaten one time by one of the neighbors.  Because of the misfortune in her family, Raspberry struggles to find security in her life and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68702176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Sharon G. Flake was one of the authors that i used to love reading books from. Her, Walter Dean Myers and Sharon M. Draper were probably my three favorite authors back in Junior High and in the beginning of my high school years. What i liked about all these authors was that they all wrote about a c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59607891">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[         Is it a sin to steal even if it is for your mother's survival? For Raspberry Hill, 14-year-old, begging for change and stealing her best friend's for money has become a necessity in order to keep herself from being homeless. Her mother used to do drugs and was severely beaten by one of her ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59249541">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book BEGGING FOR CHANGE, by Sharon G. Flake is about a fourteen year old girl named Raspberry. Raspberry is a girl who was living a normal life with her mom and dad, until the day that her parents separated. When her mom and dad separated from each other, Raspberry stayed living with her mother,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76142722">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i really like this book because i like the moral of the story.<br/>If felt shocked and sad because a teenage girl that was on drugs and was a huge trouble maker she lived on her own and Raspberry the main character’s mom was always calling the cops on her because of all those reasons such as doin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76705055">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The cover shows a young girls hand holding a Styrofoam cup and change being dropped in.  I suspect she is homeless or else so hungry she must beg for change to survive.  <br/>I was so wrong in what I thought this book was about.  This is the story of a young girl whose father is a drug addict and h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59299394">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is a  good book I thought this book was easy to follow with the characters and how her life is and Shes poor and how she needs money ext  <br/> Raspberry Hill is still struggling to find in her life. More than anything, she wants a father . When her mother is attacked, Raspberry she steals money...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52561442">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Imagine being a homeless girl, who begs for change - both literal and figurative. Raspberry, the girl who lives alone in the world has to face many factors and conflict in her life. Her neighbor comes and attacks her mother - which ends up bringing her druggie daddy back into her life. She tries to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58228662">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A story about a girl who's trying to stay clean and out of trouble in a troubled neighborhood, where gangs and drugs are prevalent and no one's got money. Raspberry is always trying to make money to better her and her mom's life, but when her mother's beaten up by an angry teen neighbor and her drug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60531646">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[in this book you learn all about a girl who , growing up as a child, was under-privellaged. she lives with a mom who doesnt seem to care about her and she has a drug-addicted father who is no where to be found. she goes around robbing and stealing from people. this book teaches you that even though ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67556512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is of a girl named raspberry, she is 14 and living a hard life. she lives in the projects with her drug addict father and her recently assaulted mother. the title i thought was very cleaver because though it is about less fortunate homeless people, it means more than simply begging for the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59335677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is good and sad at the same time this book was good in the begining and ok at the end this book is about a girl that she is poor and her mother does drugs and she lives in a bad neberhood and so the mother something happens to her and so shes in the hospital and then she has no money cuse ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55366731">more...</a>]]></body>
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