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    <body><![CDATA[As I read this book for the Teen Book Discussion Group I run, I kept hearing news reports on the ten year anniversary of the Columbine high school killings. Which reassured me that this book, while not great, was at least still relevant. <br/><br/>Tom and his friends are in class on an average sch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53649679">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the length of this book is 330 pages but, dont let that scare you because this book is about 3 kid who kill 5 kids from their school with a gun and kill them selfs,so this event was all over the news and kids from schools close to the shootings got call from their parents.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Scary... <em>After</em>, by Francine Prose, is certainly a horror story of very different proportions. There is spooky, creepy crawly, murder-in-the-night type of horror stories, and there is the one where the horror is all around you, but you don't know what it means, where it comes from, what it is. One of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43402952">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>The shootings in Pleasant Valley were fifty miles away, but at Central High a grief and crisis counselor is hired, security is increased, and privileges are being taken away. </p><p> <em> No one knows why. </em> </p><p> If you break the new rules the punishment is severe. And the rules keep changing every day. </p><p> <em> School feels like a prison. </em> </p><p> It's for their protection, yet fifteen-year-old Tom Bishop and his friends learn that things are far more sinister than they seem. Students and teachers begin disappearing. </p><p> <em> There's no way to stop it. </em> </p><p> Nationally best-selling and acclaimed author Francine Prose has written a haunting novel about what happens when protection goes too far and what it means to have freedom extinguished -- in the name of safety.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A truly terrifying, edge-of-your-seat, if slightly over-the-top thriller. Those who find it farfetched may want to read the book <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Help at Any Cost" title="Help at Any Cost">Help at Any Cost</a>, a nonfiction study of the &quot;troubled teen&quot; industry.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>The shootings in Pleasant Valley were fifty miles away, but at Central High a grief and crisis counselor is hired, security is increased, and privileges are being taken away. </p><p> <em> No one knows why. </em> </p><p> If you break the new rules the punishment is severe. And the rules keep changing every day. </p><p> <em> School feels like a prison. </em> </p><p> It's for their protection, yet fifteen-year-old Tom Bishop and his friends learn that things are far more sinister than they seem. Students and teachers begin disappearing. </p><p> <em> There's no way to stop it. </em> </p><p> Nationally best-selling and acclaimed author Francine Prose has written a haunting novel about what happens when protection goes too far and what it means to have freedom extinguished -- in the name of safety.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting idea, but it did end with me wondering how things would be resolved.  In the book, a neighboring school has multiple students and teachers shot and killed by other students.  Nearby Central High is sent a grief counselor who eventually takes the place of all administrators.  Strict rules...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42337559">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>The shootings in Pleasant Valley were fifty miles away, but at Central High a grief and crisis counselor is hired, security is increased, and privileges are being taken away. </p><p> <em> No one knows why. </em> </p><p> If you break the new rules the punishment is severe. And the rules keep changing every day. </p><p> <em> School feels like a prison. </em> </p><p> It's for their protection, yet fifteen-year-old Tom Bishop and his friends learn that things are far more sinister than they seem. Students and teachers begin disappearing. </p><p> <em> There's no way to stop it. </em> </p><p> Nationally best-selling and acclaimed author Francine Prose has written a haunting novel about what happens when protection goes too far and what it means to have freedom extinguished -- in the name of safety.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[After a shooting in a school almost 50 miles away, things begin to drastically change for Tom, his friends and everyone else at their school.  It began as a man just coming to “oversee” the school.  The situation quickly escalated to metal detectors, dress code, and drug tests for athletes.  Par...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42088715">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There is a school shooting at a nearby school, Pleasant Valley High, and Tom’s school Central High receives a grief and crisis counselor, Dr. Willner, who takes hundreds of precautions. There are new absurd rules every day, and those who disobey them are sent to Operation Turnaround and are never ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35513025">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It starts with a school shooting at Pleasant Valley High, a few towns over.  It's a horrible tragedy, but Tom and his friends don't think much of it--until their own school, Central High, gets a new grief and crisis councellor, Dr. Willner, to help the Central High students cope with tragedy at such...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17598356">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> School has become a prison.<br/> No one knows why.<br/> There's no way to stop it.<br/> </p>]]>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was quite upsetting. Someone below said it was like a mix of 1984 and Catcher in the Rye. I think that is a good description. Basically, this book confronts the issue of freedom vs. safety. The more freedom you have, the less safe you are. And, as the students in this unfortunate...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10823875">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone above the age of 12, and even then, a 12 year old might tell you this book was horrible.<br/><br/>The plot was action based, so why was the main character reflecting on his past during the whole book rather than looking at the current issue? All of the char...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71673876">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<u>Grade:</u> 8/10<br/><u>Pages:</u> 336<br/><u>Summary:</u> School has become a prison.<br/>No one knows why.<br/>There's no way to stop it. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bn.com"> bn.com</a><br/><u>Thoughts:</u> A very powerful book I read shortly after the affects of Columbine. It was very interesting reading a book where schools take things to an extreme to pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59171733">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[MY REVIEW:  I loved every minute of this book.  The subject matter is so scary based on the fact that something like this could actually happen, and how easily it would be to accomplish something like this.  The only thing that I would say I didn't like was the ending of the book.  It seems as thoug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80624291">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> School has become a prison.<br/> No one knows why.<br/> There's no way to stop it.<br/> </p>]]>
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 24 09:10:14 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book reminded me of the school shooting in Calorado in 1999.  One school had three students that just went crazy one day.  They brought guns to school and started shooting people then themselfs.  Then the school 50miles away heard about it.  The students there started to get ideas.  The adminis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38531189">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> School has become a prison.<br/> No one knows why.<br/> There's no way to stop it.<br/> </p>]]>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I officially want to give this one 3.5 stars but that's not an option... I really did like this book. It was gripping and reminded me a lot of 1984 by George Orwell and Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. What I didn't like was the sudden ending. I wonder if the author intends to write a sequel or if o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77100315">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> School has become a prison.<br/> No one knows why.<br/> There's no way to stop it.<br/> </p>]]>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book takes a look at a school after a shooting occurred at a high school in a nearby town, and focuses on the changes that are instituted by the school administrators in name of security. <br/><br/>The story is told from the point of view of a teenager, Tom, who witnesses steadily increasing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29735280">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> School has become a prison.<br/> No one knows why.<br/> There's no way to stop it.<br/> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[After a school shooting in a small town 40 miles away, Central High School and other area schools begin going through changes to prevent future shootings at their own schools.  However, the new rules and regulations put in place get out of hand.  Students everywhere slowly disappear and parents are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45402134">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> School has become a prison.<br/> No one knows why.<br/> There's no way to stop it.<br/> </p>]]>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[	Francine Prose’s After just recently came out on sale. After the school shootings and all Francine Prose wanted to teach kids and people of the violence we don’t know, that is in school shootings. She tried to not only make this book scary and informational but she also tried to make it funny. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22608314">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>The shootings in Pleasant Valley were fifty miles away, but at Central High a grief and crisis counselor is hired, security is increased, and privileges are being taken away. </p><p> <em> No one knows why. </em> </p><p> If you break the new rules the punishment is severe. And the rules keep changing every day. </p><p> <em> School feels like a prison. </em> </p><p> It's for their protection, yet fifteen-year-old Tom Bishop and his friends learn that things are far more sinister than they seem. Students and teachers begin disappearing. </p><p> <em> There's no way to stop it. </em> </p><p> Nationally best-selling and acclaimed author Francine Prose has written a haunting novel about what happens when protection goes too far and what it means to have freedom extinguished -- in the name of safety.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[My son picked this up and read it; said it was really creepy. I was intrigued in part due to his reaction as well as the fact the author is also the author of _Read Like a Writer_.<br/><br/>Well, it was creepy. I &quot;enjoyed&quot; it. And, for a first young adult novel, I think Prose did really ...]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> School has become a prison.<br/> No one knows why.<br/> There's no way to stop it.<br/> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seriously creepy tale about what COULD happen in our quest to make schools safer.  About halfway through, it starts to feel more like science fiction than anything else.  I wish there would be a sequel because the end doesn't really feel like much of an end...just that she needed to stop writing.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> School has become a prison.<br/> No one knows why.<br/> There's no way to stop it.<br/> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't really like it.  It was about a school shooting and how it affected a school nearby.  About the only thing I did like is that it referenced The Catcher in the Rye a lot and I JUST finished that one.  I didn't really like the way After ended either.  I would not recommend it.]]></body>
    
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