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  <title><![CDATA[The Misfits]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[James Howe]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[   By:James Howe           total pages:288<br/><br/>    Misfits by James Howe is about a group of middle school students who are best friends who have been teased by many people over the years. the main characters in this story are Addie, Bobby, Joe, Skeezy. Bobby used to be picked on because he i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50969970">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A look at the need for tolerance toward people with differences in middle school age kids.  A group of misfits (one tough guy, one brainiac girl, one fat boy, and one boy who comes out of the closet) decide to run a candidate for student class president and institute changes in the school to bring a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22349956">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39327762">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[any adult, and any child from the end of 5th on up]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Thu Dec 04 17:22:00 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 12 20:54:42 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderful book on many levels. The dialogue cracks me up. I love all four of the main characters. James Howe is realistic about the difficulties of school social life, but avoids scaring the will to live out of the reader. He is realistic, but not overly-dramatic.<br/><br/>What I love mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39327762">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 20 11:09:00 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Genre: Juvenile fiction					Reading level: Age 10+<br/>It is the rare child who hasn’t been called names by their classmates. Sticks and stones cause wounds that will heal, but derogatory titles can cause life long damage. Four unpopular middle-school students decide to put a stop to name calling...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38233815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53272510">
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 19 17:10:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A 12-year old tie salesman, a tall outspoken girl, a gay middle schooler, and a hooligan have been best friends for years. They all have been the target of cruel name calling and now they are in seventh grade. Now they decide to stand up and make a change in their life. They all want to be treated e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53272510">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26515884">
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  <date_updated>Tue Jul 29 11:28:11 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book didn't get any supergreat critical response when it came out, but I found it hilarious, engaging, and full of truly sympathetic (if not totally realistic) characters.  Especially now that we're back in an election year, I bet it'd work pretty great for group discussion, and there are scene...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26515884">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Oct 18 20:27:41 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[     This is another book i like. This book can relate to a lot of people. If your the type who gets in lots of trouble, or if your not in the popular group but don't care what people think, this book is made for you. At the same time, if your the type who like to bully people, you can learn how you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73893683">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Was looking for a kid's book with some more depth than most of the gunk that's coming out which is either about vampires, magic or jeans. The first page got me because of the mature writing. I had no idea what it would be about, what the characters would be like, I just figured it'd be a good pick....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63157052">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes, aspects of this book are overdrawn, and it gets overly sentimental (and concurrently rather unbelievable) at times (especially in some of the ways adults and the kids in the book interact with each other), but the premise of kids working together to come up with a solution to a specific injusti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67643999">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ &quot;When you're living through them, events are nothing more than stuff that happens. You're not thinking about significance. Significance only comes when you look back at your life.&quot;<br/><br/>  --Bobby Goodspeed, &quot;The Misfits&quot;, P. 95<br/><br/> &quot;The future is a trickster r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49469293">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52463318">
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book because it is somethingthat I think every kid goes through even through high school. It deals with the issu of &quot;labels&quot; which are given to people because of the way they may look or a certain personality trait they may have. Overall I feel that giving people lables are wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52463318">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[   This book is about a group of four kids who don't fit in. [That is why the book is called the Misfits]One is fat, one is weird, one is a geek and one is gay. The main character in the book is a kid named Bobby [the fat one!]It is mostly about their group running for student council. [President, V...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40701810">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41234079">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book plays on a familiar theme in young adult lit: kids banding together against injustice.  but it does so in a very interesting way - with the characters seeking an end to bullying and name-calling of all kinds.  the characters are true-to-life (i've known most of them).  the plot has an inte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41234079">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53668867">
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[AAAAMAZING.  Hilarious, fast, fun, and downright authentic.  Bobby Goodspeed is honest and real, and he's surrounded by genuine friends and family.  True, a lot happens quickly, and Bobby admits his life-changing realization comes only in retrospect, but isn't that just about exactly the way seventh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53668867">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  This book is called &quot;The Misfits&quot; by James Howe. This book talks about 4 kids who don't fit in, in school. These 4 kids were called different names, but it doesn't matter cause it doesn't affect them. It just makes the people who say it a bad person.<br/><br/>  A text-to-self connectio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74009645">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68025700">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Slightly obvious? Yes. This is a message book through and through about popularity, name-calling, and bullying. You've got your parade of &quot;misfits&quot; who somehow band together solely because they are social outcasts (and, it's implied, they're pretty much smarter than anyone else around them...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68025700">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72634734">
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book!  It was so good that it was the one book I read to my 7th graders when I was teaching.  The plot is a familiar tales of middle school horror, but the writing is what makes it.  It takes turns being sarcastic, snarky, funny, heartbreaking, wise, and helpless - just about every emoti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41597954">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a fiction book, but it seemed so realistic. This book shows how some people go through name calling everyday of there life. So people go through name calling because they may be too over weighted, or smarter than everybody and are called a geek, or is confused about their gender, and ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71877328">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This middle grade novel deals with the issue of name calling amongst children and it's effects.  Bobby, Addy, Joe, and Skeezie, under the direction of Addy, decide to run a 3rd party campaign for student council.  They call themselves the no-name party and their goal is to make students more aware o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15411187">more...</a>]]></body>
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