"And as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, I realize that I never saw real beauty until now."
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Dec 15, 2011
Cara
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Wendy Mass has a particular style that I think people either get or not. I have to say some of the time I don't get into her books, but I can honestly say I was happy that I read this one.
Ally, Bree, and Jack are all very different and under noraml circumstances would never meet, but one event will bring them all together, the solar eclipse. This event will be witnessed at the Moon Shadow which is Ally's home. Bree is being dragged there by force, who wants to commune with the stars More...
Ally, Bree, and Jack are all very different and under noraml circumstances would never meet, but one event will bring them all together, the solar eclipse. This event will be witnessed at the Moon Shadow which is Ally's home. Bree is being dragged there by force, who wants to commune with the stars More...
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Mar 09, 2009
Jacqueline
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Wow! This was a great book. On reflection, it was not a great book for the usual reasons. The plot was pretty typical for the young adult market. The characters, although varied and somewhat three dimensional, were still stereotypes. The theme was the usual, again especially for young adult books. The parent-child interactions were for the most part overbearing, and the teens were definitely lacking in power in their day-to-day lives. Family members were depicted working against each othe
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Jan 05, 2010
Rachel
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Ally lives at a campground. She does not want to move to the city. The stars can't be seen there, and she's been searching for the Messier Objects, which can hardly be seen from where she lives!
Bree has a life, and she likes it the way it is. As far as she's concerned, school is only there for popular people like her to practice looking good so they can be models someday.
Jack is a misfit with a talent for art. He failed science, and is looking for any excuse to get out of summer scho More...
Bree has a life, and she likes it the way it is. As far as she's concerned, school is only there for popular people like her to practice looking good so they can be models someday.
Jack is a misfit with a talent for art. He failed science, and is looking for any excuse to get out of summer scho More...
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Feb 06, 2010
Jonathon
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In EVERY SOUL A STAR, Wendy Mass does something incredible. For the first 200 pages, you are wonder several things. What's going to happen? Why am I supposed to care? What do these three characters have to do with each other?
EVERY SOUL A STAR follows three narrators as two of them congregate on a campground owned by one of the character's family.
From the front flap:
Ally:
Ally likes the simple things in life- labyrinths, stargazing, and comet hunting. Her h More...
EVERY SOUL A STAR follows three narrators as two of them congregate on a campground owned by one of the character's family.
From the front flap:
Ally:
Ally likes the simple things in life- labyrinths, stargazing, and comet hunting. Her h More...
Jan 13, 2009
Gregory
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This book was read aloud to my wife and our almost-13 son - our last child still at home. We are confirmed fans of reading aloud, and most of our favorite books are read this way.
Each chapter in this story is told from the point of view of one of the three main characters, in rotation. All three are early teens, two girls and a boy, and their very different lives are surprisingly brought together at a place and time for all of them to learn some important lessons. It's not unusual More...
Each chapter in this story is told from the point of view of one of the three main characters, in rotation. All three are early teens, two girls and a boy, and their very different lives are surprisingly brought together at a place and time for all of them to learn some important lessons. It's not unusual More...
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Dec 03, 2008
Jennifer
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Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.com
EVERY SOUL A STAR is the story of three teens and a total solar eclipse. They are three strangers brought together by a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Ally has lived at the Moon Shadow campground for as long as she can remember. Her parents, dedicated star watchers, bought the campground when they discovered that it would be ground zero for an upcoming total solar eclipse. Over the years, they creat More...
EVERY SOUL A STAR is the story of three teens and a total solar eclipse. They are three strangers brought together by a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Ally has lived at the Moon Shadow campground for as long as she can remember. Her parents, dedicated star watchers, bought the campground when they discovered that it would be ground zero for an upcoming total solar eclipse. Over the years, they creat More...
Jan 05, 2012
Every Soul a Star
The book every soul a star has many different topics that kids deal with today. One of the topics is moving, two girls Ally and Bree discovering they will both move to somewhere else. Except that Bree is moving to Ally’s remote campground where there isn’t a lot of media. Leaving all of her dreams to becoming professional model, Bree isn’t so thrilled to help her parents to help run the campground. Ally isn’t happy either that she has to move away from a campground where s More...
The book every soul a star has many different topics that kids deal with today. One of the topics is moving, two girls Ally and Bree discovering they will both move to somewhere else. Except that Bree is moving to Ally’s remote campground where there isn’t a lot of media. Leaving all of her dreams to becoming professional model, Bree isn’t so thrilled to help her parents to help run the campground. Ally isn’t happy either that she has to move away from a campground where s More...
Sep 18, 2011
Barky
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Sep 07, 2011
Kerry
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Every Soul a Star and Greetings from Nowhere by Barbara O'Connor are both books where a set of characters with nothing in common are thrown together and have an impact on each other's lives. In addition, each has parental units who suddenly take up "motel" managing without any experience!
But from there, Every Soul is a much stronger book. I felt the kids were more well rounded with clearer voices and evoked a deeper emotional response from me. I was taken with Jack in part More...
But from there, Every Soul is a much stronger book. I felt the kids were more well rounded with clearer voices and evoked a deeper emotional response from me. I was taken with Jack in part More...
Aug 28, 2011
Stephen
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As usual, I listened to the audio book version of this book. I'm curious whether the emotional nature of the eclipse description is the same when read in print. They used three vocal actors to play the narrators, and they did a great job. One of the real strengths of this book is that you start to identify with these quirky characters and then you view the eclipse through their eyes. I particularly was moved by Allie's narration of the first half of the eclipse, again the vocal performance was e
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Jul 19, 2011
Jessica
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Yet another Rebecca Caudill nominee for the upcoming school year, Every Soul a Star is told using the multiple point-of-view format, including characters Ally, Bree, and Jack. Ally, a teen girl who lives in the woods with her family (who runs a campground), is a home-schooled girl who, although really smart, is lacking in her social skills. Ally loves astronomy and all things having to do with it. Bree, the complete opposite of Ally, is a teen girl who wants to be a model and is only concerned w
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Apr 14, 2011
M.
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2012 Rebecca Caudill nominee. Four very different kids, all middle school aged, are thrown together when a huge number of people gather at the Moon Shadows Campground to experience a solar eclipse. Ally's family owns the campground but they're planning on moving to the city after the eclipse while Bree's family is going to take it. Ryan comes every year with his grandparents and Jack is there because his science teacher, a noted astronomer, gives him the option of accompanying the teacher's t
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Feb 07, 2011
Ally, Bree, and Jack, meet at a camp preparing to see the solar eclipse. They each have their own problems. Ally is about to lose the home that she has lived in for most of her life, and move to the city. Bree is about to take Ally’s home and she doesn’t want to live at a summer camp for the rest of her life, with no cell phone signal and no internet and no connection to the outside world. Jack is just trying to find where he fits in, he came on this trip for extra credit in school but he ends u
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Feb 01, 2011
Debra
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In the middle of NOWHERE USA, three different 8th graders with three different perspectives and personalities, take turns narrating their lives as they converge with thousands who come to wait for a full solar eclipse.
Ally’s family established the Moon Shadow Campground for the sole purpose of hosting this eclipse. She has never known anything else. NO TV cell phones or video games.
Bree is an apiring model and mall rat who has done the typical life in the burbs with all the beautif More...
Ally’s family established the Moon Shadow Campground for the sole purpose of hosting this eclipse. She has never known anything else. NO TV cell phones or video games.
Bree is an apiring model and mall rat who has done the typical life in the burbs with all the beautif More...
Nov 14, 2010
Minli
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Ally, Jack and Bree are all at the eclipse campground for different reasons. It's summer, and Jack needs to make up a class--when the science teacher/eclipse guide asks him to be his assistant and gets him out of summer school, Jack jumps at the chance. Bree is an aspiring model who hates the outdoors and leaving the city (civilization, she calls it) and is being forced to move to the campground against her will, since her parents are taking over the campground from Ally's family. And Ally (shor
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Aug 06, 2010
Paul
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This story leads to an absolutely mesmerizing climax. I loved the multiple inversions of Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day", too -- a deft touch.
I suppose my only complaint -- and I'm stretching here -- is that if I were to recommend this book to a young woman like Bree (in an effort to get her to appreciate science or to encourage her to nurture her "inner geek") then my effort would seem very transparent to that young reader -- because Bree herself, insofar as she More...
I suppose my only complaint -- and I'm stretching here -- is that if I were to recommend this book to a young woman like Bree (in an effort to get her to appreciate science or to encourage her to nurture her "inner geek") then my effort would seem very transparent to that young reader -- because Bree herself, insofar as she More...
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Jun 08, 2010
Peyton
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I liked it. I didn't waste my time reading it. What got to me, was you had to get more than half way through the novel to get to a good part of it.
Aly: The 'space girl' as I like to call her. She's home schooled, loves observing the galaxy, and talks to her friends on different planets. Glenn, Peggy, and Eta. Of course, they're not real, she just hopes that they are looking up at the sky too, if they are really up there. Her point of view wasn't my favorite, but it was entertaining. More...
Aly: The 'space girl' as I like to call her. She's home schooled, loves observing the galaxy, and talks to her friends on different planets. Glenn, Peggy, and Eta. Of course, they're not real, she just hopes that they are looking up at the sky too, if they are really up there. Her point of view wasn't my favorite, but it was entertaining. More...
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Jun 01, 2010
Zara
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Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass is a book about real life problems and how everything turns out to be better than what they expected. The setting of this book is in the Moon Shadow campground where over one thousand people are coming to view the amazing eclipse. But the way the book is written, is what makes it interesting. This book is written in three different perspectives. You have Ally: a nature girl who's family owns the Moon Shadow campground and has a sharp brain for astronomy, Bree: a g
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Oct 20, 2009
Arryn
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I've read some really great young adult fiction lately, and this book did not disappoint. Three 8th graders from three very different walks of life take turns narrating this story that brings them all together at a remote campground in anticipation of viewing a total solar eclipse. Although each character perhaps represents a sterotypical teenage personality, I thought they were well developed and multi-dimensional. There were some great secondary characters, too. I'd never consider myself a
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May 15, 2009
Thomas
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"Every Soul a Star" is about three teenagers who are brought together by an eclipse during the summer. This eclipse changes each of their lives forever. The story begins with Ally, who is a homeschooled girl that has never truly experienced civilazation. Then the point of view switches to Bree, a true prep thats mantra is to be beautiful - she wants to be a model when she grows up. Then, it switches to Jack, who is a slightly overweight and somewhat awkward guy that failed his science
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Oct 07, 2011
John
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What an amazing book. It reminds me of Matthew 27:45 "From noon until three, darkness came over all the land." At the time of Jesus' death on the cross, there was a total solar eclipse, so all of the events that Mass, so eloquently describes and captures, would have taken place as the Son of GOD left this world. It was fun to witness the change inside of Ally, Bree, and Jack that led to change on the outside; all three of them grasped the opportunity to make their world, their exist
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Nov 17, 2010
Nicole
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Jun 08, 2010
Sophia
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Every Soul A Star by Wendy Mass is a riveting piece of literature written in three different perspectives by three different teenagers, who all came together by a spectacular event of a solar eclipse. We first have Ally, a free-spirited girl, who treasures the little things and has lived her whole life at the Moon Shadow Campground. Then is Bree, a typical suburban teenager whose lifestyle is abruptly taken to a new turn and refuses to accept the new changes she has to face. Last but not
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Oct 16, 2011
Nico
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Every Soul A Star: My Review
Every Soul a Star is a wonderful book that has three interesting main characters.
Ally Summers,a twelve year old girl who has inherited a dream from her grandfather of finding an asteroid or comet. Her parents built a campground called The Moonshadow. Ally and her younger brother Kenny are homeschooled. Ally and her family are all waiting for the total solar eclipse that is predicted to happen on the year the story takes place. But with the solar eclipse More...
Every Soul a Star is a wonderful book that has three interesting main characters.
Ally Summers,a twelve year old girl who has inherited a dream from her grandfather of finding an asteroid or comet. Her parents built a campground called The Moonshadow. Ally and her younger brother Kenny are homeschooled. Ally and her family are all waiting for the total solar eclipse that is predicted to happen on the year the story takes place. But with the solar eclipse More...
Jan 09, 2012
Shawn
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Don't get me wrong, I liked this book but I felt something was off. Firstly, the main characters "felt" older to me. Ally came across as more responsible and mature that the average 12 year old, while Bree came off is too worldly for her age. I also was looking for something a little more climactic toward the end and I felt it was a bit flat.
I did like the characters and the way the book was written from each perspective. I enjoyed Ally's straight-forward love of live and sim More...
I did like the characters and the way the book was written from each perspective. I enjoyed Ally's straight-forward love of live and sim More...
Dec 13, 2011
Shaynaf
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The book Every Soul a Star is an amazing book that takes place in modern day time. It shows the difference in people's personalities and how much people and children can change within even a year or so. The main characters, Ally, Bree and Jack all go to the Moon Shadow Campsite which is the only place to see the solar eclipse. To them, the Moon Shadow Campsite is in the middle of “nowhere.” Ally disagrees. She thinks that it is a wonderful place because she lives there with her brother Kenny. Br
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Dec 13, 2011
Sydney
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Wendy Mass Hits the Charts With Her New Caudill Book “Every Soul a Star”
Who wouldn't want to live in a bright, cheery, city with many shopping destinations? No one wouldn't, except for Ally. Ally is thirteen with a great sense of humor. She thinks that Moon Shadow campground is the best place on Earth. Moon Shadow really means the “moon's shadow” because they are known for their solar eclipse, which are very rare. Ally would never think about leaving until her parents tell her the ba More...
Who wouldn't want to live in a bright, cheery, city with many shopping destinations? No one wouldn't, except for Ally. Ally is thirteen with a great sense of humor. She thinks that Moon Shadow campground is the best place on Earth. Moon Shadow really means the “moon's shadow” because they are known for their solar eclipse, which are very rare. Ally would never think about leaving until her parents tell her the ba More...
Dec 24, 2011
Cathe
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The lives of three young teenagers are changed when they view a solar eclipse. Bree, who cares only about being popular and her looks; Allie, pretty much Bree's opposite, lives in the middle of nowhere and couldn't care less about her appearance; and Jack, overweight, overlooked, with no self confidence. When they meet at an isolated campground and prepare to view the eclipse . . . they learn about more than astronomy, they learn that they have strengths, talents and interests that they never kn
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Sep 06, 2009
Nina
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The publisher's note says "With humor and warmth, Wendy Mass weaves an intricate and enchanting tale..." I agree.
Ally has lived most of her life on the remote campground that will be the single best place from which to view the upcoming solar eclipse. Her family expects to host more than 1000 eclipse chasers from all over the world and Ally knows this will be a special time in her life. Meantime, fashion conscience Bree and loser Jack find themselves -- unexpectedly an More...
Ally has lived most of her life on the remote campground that will be the single best place from which to view the upcoming solar eclipse. Her family expects to host more than 1000 eclipse chasers from all over the world and Ally knows this will be a special time in her life. Meantime, fashion conscience Bree and loser Jack find themselves -- unexpectedly an More...
Mar 19, 2011
Scootaloo
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Every year, thousands of avid eclipse chasers go to the weirdest, most remote places in the world to catch the rare sight of a solar eclipse. This year, they're going to the Moon Shadow, a campground in basically the middle of nowhere, owned by Ally and her family. Ally thinks her life is perfect. She doesn't have to deal with drugs, gangs, or looking pretty. But when a popular girl named Bree comes with her family to take over the campground, both their lives seem ruined. Jack is an overweight
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