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  <title><![CDATA[A Bottle in the Gaza Sea]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bottle in the Gaza Sea&lt;/i&gt; should be THE novel for teens on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. When teen Tal Levine witnesses a bombing in Tel Aviv, she becomes despondent. Like so many people, she wants Israel and Palestine to live in peace. One day she puts her hopes into a letter, places the letter into a bottle, and gives it to her brother, asking him to toss it into the Gaza Sea. A young man in Gaza finds the bottle, and responds. He is critical, angry, annoyed at first, but eventually they both participate in a friendship that ultimately opens their eyes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default-description>
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  <original-publication-month type="integer">4</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">2008</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>A Bottle in the Gaza Sea</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Valerie Zenatti]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed the unusual setting of this book-- one character in Israel, one character in the Gaza Strip.  As each tries to understand the other, they grow and change.  I wish the book had been longer, however, more fleshed out.  Nevertheless, recommended!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Original review <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://zenleaf.blogspot.com/2009/06/bottle-in-gaza-sea-by-valerie-zenatti.html">here</a>.<br/><br/>When a bomb goes off in a cafe near Tal's home in Jerusalem, she begins to write. At first, it's just like a journal entry. Then, it becomes a letter to an as-of-yet unknown Palestinian. Tal has this idea that if she can connect with someone on the other side of the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40800579">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book started slowly, and I was rather incredulous about the Pollyanna-esque approach of the protagonist.  However, once the sarcastic, cynical &quot;Gazaman&quot; came on the scene, the conflicting voices and way the characters impacted each-other made this a good read.  In fact, by the last fe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23720086">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm giving this book five stars, not merely because of the level of writing (which is quite good) but more because of the depth of the issues that Zenatti has tackled and the grace with which she tackled it.<br/><br/>A 17 year old Israeli girl has arranged for a bottle with a note - a grasp at pea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19822323">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by The Compulsive Reader for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>After a nearby bombing that leaves Tal Levine, a girl desperate for peace in her Israel home, shellshocked and numb, Tal is desperate to reach out to a Palestinian, hoping for proof that they are not all heartless killers. So she writ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31371177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43720498">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book a lot because it dealt with a new topic for me. I couldn't decide between three and four stars, as I liked the book a lot, but I didn't &quot;really like it.&quot; I found the ending to be slightly unrealistic. The characters were interesting, but they didn't come alive for me. In ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43720498">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When Israeli teenager Tal witnesses a bombing, she begins to write. She writes about her life, about how the bombing made her feel, and about how she longs for peace with Palestine. She puts her letter in a bottle and throws it in the Gaza sea, hoping that someone on the other side will find it and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37251840">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the moving and eye-opening story of Tal, an Israeli girl who wants to learn more about how Palestinians live and what they really think, so she writes a letter in a bottle and sends it out to sea.  The response she gets is completely unexpected, but very enlightening.  This would be a really...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61813323">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is another great book.  It is a series of emails written back and forth between an Israeli girl and a guy who lives in Gaza.  It was very thought-provoking.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sadly, this was mostly introduction material for me on this topic. From what it seems (but I really wouldn't know), the author handled both sides of the conflict very well. I think the Israeli/Palestinian conflict here is depicted as not choosing sides, but just ending the violence. There is a chanc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44535678">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting book.  I liked the way they told the tales of two young adults, a 17yr. old Israeli girl &amp; a 20 year old Palestinian boy.  Through their email exchanges, one can gain a better understanding of what life is like in that part of the world.  Good read to gain a better understanding of two d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35043775">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Idealistic seventeen-year-old Israeli girl Tal puts message in a bottle that her soldier-brother buries for her in the Gaza sand. Young palestinian man, Naïm, finds it. Email correspondence (realistically rocky at first) and then friendship ensues. Quite good, if short, and resolved a bit too fast/...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15063331">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Feeling disheartened after a recent suicide bombing, Israeli teenager, Tal tries to make contact with someone, anyone, in Gaza. When her message is found she starts a very tenuous e-mail relationship with someone calling himself Gazaman. <br/><br/>I was a little disappointed in the 'non' ending.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As far as I'm aware this is a teenage book, but nonetheless it was a good, quick read. I started reading it just as the most recent Iseali/Gaza conflict kicked off, totally coincidentally. I did think it a tad 'girly' though. But fairly good!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Topic that is not covered very often, good dynamic between the characters and the emotions are described really well but sometimes it seems forced and contrived. Released April 2008]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[israeli teen tal begins correspondence with palestinian boy (started with a message in a bottle left on the gaza strip). pretty balanced back-and-forth perspectives. good.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a quick read that was really well-written and also informative about the current Palestinian/Israeli conflict. I liked the characters a lot.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[an enjoyable read. simple in plot, not simple in themes/portrayal of violence. a compelling glance at two foreign cultures.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Young adult fiction--good read for perspective on issues Israeli-Palestinian issues.]]></body>
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