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  <title><![CDATA[The Guardian]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joyce Sweeney]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hunter is a 13 year old living with his abusive foster mother and three sisters. Things were going pretty well for him until his foster father dies. His foster mother becomes INCREASINGLY more abusive towards him, the bully at school raises the weekly fee, and because he can't stand it anymore he pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51104152">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hunter remembers the first time his Guardian Angel Gabriel visited him. He was four years old and his mother was about to give him up to the state. He is now in middle school and has lived in four foster homes. His current home, includes three “sisters”, also foster children, and his recently wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72275451">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was about two-thirds into the book that I really started to get into the book. That was when the emotional high of Hunter finally reached its peak. Where the frustration, and so-called guardian, all came crashing down. It was exhilarating to finally see Hunter fighting back. Always the quiet and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47991253">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This entertaining but unrealistic contemporary novel starts with the funeral of Hunter's foster dad. Hunter is a scrawny thirteen-year-old, the victim of bullies including his foster mom. At the funeral, a helmeted man on a motorcycle roars up and waves at him. He remembers that when he was very lit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46624374">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a bit slow starting off, but the last half of it pulled me in and I couldn't put it down. I wanted to book talk it at a Middle school level, I think I could pull it off with only one f word...Not sure yet. <br/>I really really really liked this book though. Very good read!]]></body>
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    <review id="67484482">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd give this book a 2.5.  It was a quick read and there are definitely kids I will be able to sell this to.  For me it just wasn't as &quot;unexepected&quot; as the jacket copy led me to believe--I was looking for something more like Skellig by David Almond.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, kinda weird, and the character development was a bit inconsistent.  There would be flashes of personality, and then everyone just turned back into cardboard.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A foster boy thinks that a guardian angel is looking after him after he starts praying again. He struggles to believe that it's real and believe that he's not insane.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading for professional review.]]></body>
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