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    <body><![CDATA[Family History/Misfits<br/><br/>Ivy Breedlove comes from a family of lawyers who expect her to follow in the family footsteps. The problem is, Ivy isn't interested in becoming a lawyer. She loves her family, but has always felt like she doesn't quite fit in. She is, however, interested in family his...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80501676">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A gem of a book, short but meaningful. Goes in deep about family stuff and acceptance. Reccomended to teen girls, because it's not just some hotshot book about cheerleaders and true love.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Truthfully, I randomly picked this book off the shelf at the library hoping for a short, easy-read by a familiar author. But what I got from this book was so much more! The themes, of which there are plenty, were hidden within the depths of each and every page. And the plot...so surreal! I was absor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41434264">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've always enjoyed Joan Bauer's books. She writes a lot of young adult fiction, and I've been reading her ever since sixth grade. This book is no different from all her other ones. Her main character is a teenager with a certain interest, and through that interest, it becomes clear the kind of pers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66074893">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book.  I felt so similar to the main character in many of the quirks.  Loved her fight to do family history.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this delightful read to be wonderfully refreshing. A teen girl has to make a choice to follow her own instincts even in the face of overwhelming dissaproval from her Lawyer-trained family. She searched for answers as to how the family has come to be the way it is, answers to why some are lef...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68975095">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ivy Breedlove, sixteen, struggles to find a place in her family of lawyers.  She isn’t interested in law, but in history--family history.  In her studies she finds out she is not alone in rebelling against family expectations.  Her aunt, who she didn’t even know existed, lives on her own, inacce...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69687042">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was average. Basic young adult lit chick drama. Very, very annoying cover. Either that photoshopped chickadee is the size of a bumblebee, or the girl's head is 17 inches wide. Your call.<br/><br/>[From my teacher notes:]<br/><br/>The key conflicts work on two levels, literally and symbolica...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45772653">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just reread this book, and I felt it only fair to rewrite my review because what I learn changes every time I read a book.  So prepare yourself for a long review: *Takes deep breath*<br/><br/>Um... wow.  Do I use that expression enough?  Joan Bauer is a genius and nothing less.  Her writing is w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27319517">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was actually a reread for me.  This was the first Joan Bauer book I ever read (and thank God the paperback cover is better than the hardcover!), so when I saw it a the library I thought it would be fun to revisit Ivy and the Breedlove family.  I'm glad I did.  Joan Bauer's books always feature ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60159450">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this. A girl wanting to find out more about her history of her family.No one in her family would tell her about her aunt. She decided she wanted to meet her aunt that she never met. Especially when a lot of people said she was like her aunt. It is so good!It's a mystery, but it didn't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79683408">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I loved about this book is that I felt such a unique calmness while reading it. The story is about a high school student that is struggling to learn the true history of her family, particularly that of her dead mother and estranged aunt. She sets out on a quest to find her aunt and learns a lot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18926269">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a &quot;nice&quot; little book.  I liked Ivy and Mountain Mama, but I can't say that their story was very &quot;gripping&quot;.  I wouldn't put it in YA for this reason.  Everything falls in place too easily and all ends well.  I would put this in juvenile fiction, suitable for anyone.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a genealogy enthusiast myself, so the book was of great interest to me. A fine story, but it does not have the measure of humor that some of Bauer's other novels have.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a good adventure/mystery with a hint of teenage romance. Its a classic...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like this author.  There is a lot of truth in this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it looks cool &amp; snow-iful!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book about a girl who grew up in a lawyer family but she wants to be a historian.<br/>Those lawyers do not approve.<br/>So she decides to find her aunt who ran away to the mountains because of all the pressure placed on her to become a lawyer. <br/>She eventually does, but the ending is quit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31955998">more...</a>]]></body>
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