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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka &quot;Readingjunky&quot; for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>Sorry, there's no cover art available yet for TOUCH by Francine Prose, but I recommend it as a good read no matter what they decide to do with the cover. Prose is the author of such YA titles as AFTER and BULLYVILL...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48252673">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt like I was in stuck in some sort of time loop thing, like Sam and Dean was in a previous episode of <em>Supernatural</em> the entire time I was reading. The story jumps from all different points of time, back and forth, back again, and so forth. Maisie's recount of the &quot;bus incident&quot; is like...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79135136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[	It’s freshman year and something happened to Maisie on the school bus.  Stepmom is suing the school district, Maisie is seeing a counselor, and no one at school is speaking to Maisie, which is actually an improvement over the jiggling coins and drawings on the bathroom wall.  What really happened...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77281675">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This distressing, sad, but ultimately hopeful novel captured me instantaneously. Maisie's story is unfortunately similar to things we hear of happening at high schools around the country, but what I love about this particular telling is that it captures Maisie as a person, not simply as a victim. Ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69045191">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unhappy living with her dad and evil stepmother, Maisie leaves for the school year to live with her mom in Wisconsin.  She wonders if it might be a mistake to leave the 3 boys she's been best friends with since preschool, but ultimately decides they'll always be friends as they always have been.  Tu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76180632">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What really happened that day in the back of the school bus? This story is tragically realistic, and it is written well for its intended age group. It can be hard to find something for junior high and early high school students on a tough topic like inappropriate touching or sexual assault without b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76053058">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Touch has a really good premise. I like the description, reading about the mystery of what happened that fateful day on the bus. But... the book fell flat for me. The description on the cover flap is the high point- the actual novel is more meh.<br/><br/>The writing is good. It sounds young, it's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65568264">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Prose has some curious work during her literary career - one of my favorite by her was Household Saints.  Touch is the story of a teenaged girl and her three male friends.  Maissie's friendship with Shakes (one of her three male friends) develops during their daily bus rides.  Jealousy is inspired i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74072157">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maisie has always been best friends with 3 boys. When she moves away for one year and then returns, puberty has hit and Maisie has grown large breasts. As soon as she meets up with her friends after that year, she discovers that their relationships have changed. When she begins a tentative romance w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70860185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Touch is the story of 14 year old Maisie, who's 3 best friends are boys.  One day on the back of the bus, they touch her inappropriately and thus touches off a saga as she attempts to remember 'what really happened' and deal with regular life in the process.  <br/><br/>Prose's book doesn't stack u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75227149">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished reading Touch a couple minutes ago and I have to say I didn't really enjoy it. I'm the kind of person who usually loves all the books I pick out to read, but Touch wasn't one of them. I can't pinpoint exactly what I didn't like about it; maybe it was the way it was written- the story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80670937">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nobody knows what really happened that day on the school bus. Not even Maisie knows the truth of what happened to her anymore. The boys, her former best friends, say one thing. Maisie tells a different story. Who is actually telling the truth? Are either of them telling the truth or only their versi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56534908">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not a fan of unreliable narrators, and I felt that Maisie was one in this story.  Her versions of events kept changing, and it's one thing to read a story where the events change as the narrator tells other characters, and another to read a story where you as the reader keeps getting different v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67503053">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[From preschool onward, Maisie has been best friends with three boys from her neighborhood, Kevin, Chris, and her closest friend Shakes (nicknamed for the shaking caused by his cerebral palsy). The three of them had spent childhood through adolescence running, shouting, and playing together until Mai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63793812">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Prose does an excellent job of handling what is likely to be considered a difficult topic to address in young adult literature. Even though the main character is 14 and books featuring 14 year olds are typically read by 10-14 year olds, I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone younger than 14. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62214846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Original/full review here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thebookpixie.blogspot.com/2009/12/review-touch.html" title="http://thebookpixie.blogspot.com/2009/12/review-touch.html">http://thebookpixie.blogspot.com/2009/12...</a><br/><br/><strong>Review</strong><br/>Touch had a very edgy and gripping premise that really made me want to pick it up and read it. However, I find this totally irrelevant as I felt the actual story carried it out very inadequately, failing to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58946444">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Touch by Francine Prose was one of those books that received so much attention before the release. I was super excited to begin the book because how can you not with that summary!?<br/><br/>First person view is the most unreliable source as Prose demonstrates. In this type of book she picked the r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48266447">more...</a>]]></body>
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