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  <title><![CDATA[If the Witness Lied]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;i&gt;Choices &lt;/i&gt;do &lt;i&gt;matter and forgiveness &lt;/i&gt;is &lt;i&gt;possible.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Jack Fountain knows that what&#8217;s happened to his family sounds like the most horrible soap opera anyone could ever write. But it happened&#8212;to Jack; his parents; his sisters, Smithy and Madison. And to his baby brother, Tris. What made it worse was that the media wanted to know every detail. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now it&#8217;s almost Tris&#8217;s third birthday, and everything&#8217;s starting again. Aunt Cheryl, who&#8217;s living with the Fountain children now that their parents are gone, has decided that they will heal only if they work through their pain&#8212;on camera. The very identities they&#8217;ve created for themselves are called into question. In less than twenty-four hours their fate will change yet again, but this time they vow to not be exploited and to discover the truth. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In this gripping thriller, Caroline B. Cooney details how love, devotion, and forgiveness make resilience&#8212;and recovery&#8212;possible.</default-description>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Who wouldn’t want a chance to be on television?  Madison, Jack, and Smithy Fountain definitely wouldn’t.  For the past two years their lives have been a media circus and all they want is to be left alone, to blend in, to be normal. The Fountain children are orphans.  Their mother died of cancer ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68493098">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am ambivalent about this book.  I kind of hated it, but it was also--I couldn't stop reading.  I wanted to know what would happen, what had happened, but there were some things I just couldn't reconcile.  Cooney felt very preachy here, as in, this character should turn to God, these kids should be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64206461">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka &quot;Readingjunky&quot; for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>The four Fountain children are orphans. They first made headlines when their mother gave her life to save that of her unborn fourth child. The controversy centered on her battle with cancer and her refusal to accep...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58699011">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Caroline Cooney has been writing well-crafted YA thrillers for a LONG time, and she's got it down pat.  This one is no exception, and offers some moments where the goosebumps go up and down the arm.  Story picks up about a year after a series of tragic events befell the Fountain family; Laura, the m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64643800">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[     The Fountain children, Madison, Jack, Smithy, and Tris (short for Tristan) have definitely experienced their share of tragedy. Their mother and father are both dead, and the circumstances of both deaths were all extremely controversial. As if it wouldn't be hard enough to be orphans, the media ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55851958">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I &quot;read&quot; this book, and I say &quot;read&quot; because only skipped through this book to see what would happen. As I read this book, I felt sick to my stomach for what the aunt was doing to the family. If the whole &quot;Jon &amp; Kate&quot; thing wasn't happening right now, I might've had som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59637390">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved, loved, loved this suspense.  It is a story of a family torn about by tragedy and by the media attention that follows.  Just as the three young teenagers and toddler are coming to terms with their situation, their lives are thrown into another whirlwind as they suddenly realize ....The Witness...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72608099">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cooney starts out strong with a disfunctional family of children trying to cope individually with the death of their parents -- their mother to cancer and their father a short time after from an accident caused by their young brother -- the the guardian who seeks to profit from the children's misfor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43701707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed the story a lot, but found the characters names to be a huge distraction. The protagonists' last name is Fountain and their first names seem contrived. For me, each time I would read one of their names it was a distraction and a jarring departure from the pretend world I was enjoying. Ther...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64941043">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Fountain siblings, Jack, Madison and Smithy, must put aside their hostilities toward one another in order to protect their 3-year-old brother Tris from media exploitation of their family. When their Aunt Cheryl shamelessly sells their story to a reality show, the horrors of the past several year...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77239892">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61492431">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Meh. There was nothing wrong with this book. Caroline Cooney does her thing quite well. Suspense develops nicely and things are wrapped up neatly. Mostly the story of 3 siblings trying to protect their toddler brother when their aunt tries to get them to be the focus of a reality-tv series (younger ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61492431">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, this book is about 4 kids, brothers and sisters, whose parents are dead and they are living with thier really creepy aunt who is OBSESSED with being on TV. She will do anything to be filmed. ANYTHING! Thier dad's death seems a little supisous to the kids and thier &quot;aunt&quot; was the only...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59656975">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel the best way to sum up this book is to call it &quot;Classic Cooney&quot; - Caroline B. Cooney has been writing young adult suspense books for ages and this one sticks close to her original formula. Read more on my blog at: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bookishblather.blogspot.com/2009/07/review-if-witness-lied-by-caroline-b.html" title="http://bookishblather.blogspot.com/2009/07/review-if-witness-lied-by-caroline-b.html">http://bookishblather.blogspot.com/2009/...</a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66139322">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63477329">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remembered The Face on the Milk Carton so vividly that when I saw this book by the same author on our small library's new books table I couldn't help but check it out.  It was very captivating.  I really enjoyed this quick easy read.  Just enough creepy to keep you reading but loved how it all wor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63477329">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While the story is a little bit predictable, I did want to read to the end to find out whether or not the kids in this book would live happily ever after.  This would be a good choice for older reluctant readers, as it's around 200 pages.  Many of the chapters end with a mini cliff hanger.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the story and loved how it focused on the love of God and the love for family to get you through hard times.  However, the entire book was written in present tense, which was a little distracting as this is not a usual way to read a story.  There was one line in the book about how the presen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70663308">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 28 12:49:04 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 28 12:51:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One part of the story is a bit contrived, BUT she tries well to explain the &quot;coincidence&quot;... Otherwise the book is Really great. Written for teens, but leaves even an experienced Older reader on edge,wondering what's next.  Fills in background details slowly, good tension. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 22 22:34:32 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 22 22:36:59 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished this book in just a few hours. A great book about family and emotional survival with a little murder mystery mixed in. I loved Jack--what a fabulous character!  Cheryl was a true villian.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 03 12:48:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 15 10:15:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting suspense book for teens that villifies reality TV, but relys heavily on cell phone usage.  I wonder how the book would be different if the children were really and truly along in the world and didn't have to depend on salvation through the sudden deus ex machina of their grandparents.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66029145">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 05 12:06:10 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 14 08:37:36 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was worried that Cooney couldn't keep up the tension and suspense for the whole book.  But she did!  I guess setting the book all in one day really helped that.  I was a bit disappointed in the ending.  I felt it was a bit of a lesson, but probably a good one in the long run.]]></body>
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