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    <body><![CDATA[Brooke Craig<br/>Ms. Wheeler<br/>Honors English III<br/>August 31, 2009<br/>The Year Without Michael Book Review<br/>The Year Without Michael<br/>The Year Without Michael by Susan Beth Pfeffer is a novel about a family’s struggle to come together after their son, brother, and loved one, thir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69540663">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Unbelievable and formulaic. The story was meant to be a character-driven account of the lives of a missing boy's family in the year following his disappearance, but the characters were cardboard cut-outs at best (Jody), totally detestable at worst (the mother), and all-around inconsistent. The major...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68366108">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A good read. It definitely shows how families grieve, how families cannot move on when a loved one is missing. The old cliche that everyone needs closure (even if it means finding out that a loved one was murdered) is true. This is an accessible read for teens for them to grapple with adult issues.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Bad things aren't supposed to happen to good people. But somewhere between home and the softball field, 16-year-old Jody Chapman's younger brother disappeared, and now the family is falling apart. Her parents hardly speak to each other, her younger sister is angry and bitter, and Jody's friends, always so important to her, are slowly slipping away. It seems that all anyone can do is wait. Wait for Michael to walk in the door. Wait to stop missing him. Wait to stop waiting. When a private detective can't uncover a single clue about Michael's disappearance, Jody's urgent need to find him drives her to make a last desperate attempt to hold her family together.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very disturbing but convincingly done.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>   This book is one of my FAVORITE ! <br/>i love it so much! i hug it &amp; kiss it goodnight. :)<br/>This is a book i would remeber for the rest of my entire life. Okay so let me start of by saying that this book is about this family . there's two girls &amp; one little boy hes only 11 years old i ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35804825">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[really short book, I dont even know why I read it, I guess its cause I liked the other books by Susan. It was an easy book, interesting too. Just for a younger age..]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in about 1989 - it was in my teacher's personal library. <br/>There are no easy answers in this book. It is a portrait of a family changed by the disappearance of one of its members. <br/><br/>What I didn't love at the time was how there was no answer/easy solution - but I was 13...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65157849">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Bad things aren't supposed to happen to good people.  But somewhere between home and the softball field, 16-year-old Jody Chapman's younger brother disappeared, and now the family is falling apart.  Her parents hardly speak to each other, her younger sister is angry and bitter, and Jody's friends, always so important to her, are slowly slipping away.  It seems that all anyone can do is wait.  Wait--for Michael to walk in the door.  Wait--to stop missing him.  Wait--to stop waiting.  When a private detective can't uncover a single clue about Michael's disappearance, Jody's urgent need to find him drives her to make a last desperate attempt to hold her family together.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this after hearing Susan Beth Pfeffer speak at a New York Library Association School Library Media Specialist conference.  A teenage girl and her family try to cope with the disappearance of her little brother.  Excellent realistic fiction!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[so far this is really good! the only reason i ever wanted to read this was because my brother is michael, not this michael of course, but that is why it interested me so much.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Bad things aren't supposed to happen to good people. But somewhere between home and the softball field, 16-year-old Jody Chapman's younger brother disappeared, and now the family is falling apart. Her parents hardly speak to each other, her younger sister is angry and bitter, and Jody's friends, always so important to her, are slowly slipping away. It seems that all anyone can do is wait. Wait for Michael to walk in the door. Wait to stop missing him. Wait to stop waiting. When a private detective can't uncover a single clue about Michael's disappearance, Jody's urgent need to find him drives her to make a last desperate attempt to hold her family together.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eh. It felt dated (understandable, since it was written decades ago), and the characters didn't feel real to me. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Bad things aren't supposed to happen to good people. But somewhere between home and the softball field, 16-year-old Jody Chapman's younger brother disappeared, and now the family is falling apart. Her parents hardly speak to each other, her younger sister is angry and bitter, and Jody's friends, always so important to her, are slowly slipping away. It seems that all anyone can do is wait. Wait for Michael to walk in the door. Wait to stop missing him. Wait to stop waiting. When a private detective can't uncover a single clue about Michael's disappearance, Jody's urgent need to find him drives her to make a last desperate attempt to hold her family together.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked all of the other books I read by this author but I just couldn't get to the end of this one.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Depressing but good. Read it as a kid.]]></body>
    
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