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    <body><![CDATA[Realistic fiction, immigration, friendship. <br/><br/>The book begins with a one page description of Jimmi Sixes who has just returned from the middle east and has been honorably discharged. The very last sentence on this page says, &quot;An hour after Jimmi wrote the poem the vigilantes hung him....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77153686">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jimmi, Mik, and Fatima. Before the hanging:<br/><br/>Jimmi is a street poet. Jimmi is a street junkie. It just depends on who you talk to. If you see him skateboarding and hear him reciting his verse, he’s without doubt a poet. But if you know that he’s already been to a desert war and back at...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74822400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ten Mile River by Griffin was one of my favorite ya books last year. This one is not as enticing, but it is still a great friendship story. It tells the story of Tamika. She is deaf and bullied mercilessly at school. She finds a best friend in illegal immingrant Fatima who escaped Africa after a mac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52802787">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow this books pack a punch even though it is super short. Lyrical, intense, with well drawn characters especially for such a short book. In no particular order this book deal with immigration, violence, deafness, mental illness, shell shock from Iraq, art, friendship, living in the projects, love, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75031560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed the premise and plot of this book.  I fell in love with the characters, and the suspense leading up to the twist helped to get me through this book in no time. This would be a really great book for a teen who's still trying to get into reading -- there's a lot of teen angst, but wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74711605">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The opening poem, the forward, and the Chapter 1 heading to &quot;The Orange Houses&quot; will pull in teen readers immediately and won't let go. A book talker would only need to read these first pages to reel readers in. Add to this the slimness of the book, the outstanding writing, the contemporar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55915511">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three troubled young artists, Tamika, Fatmia, and Jimmi, cross paths and make lasting impressions on each other over the course of a month in the Bronx.<br/><br/>Surprisingly powerful, and as beautifully written as it is bleak.  At the very beginning of the book, you learn that one of the three ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79401662">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Poetically written, The Orange Houses is the story of 3 unlikely people coming together to make art and beauty in the Bronx.  By juxtaposing the ugly and cruel urban world with the beauty of art and love, Griffin paints a new kind of urban fiction that is real but without the negativity, despair and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74739794">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me a little while to get into this book, because of the language. Griffin uses a lot of slang, which is probably good for young readers. But soon I found the characters very compelling. In general I like books that bring disparate stories together to create drama. I also like books about goo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62202240">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for a discussion group on YA books.  It took me a while to get into this one, as it felt a bit preachy and too optimistic for my liking.  Maybe it would be inspiring for younger teens who haven't found a social network they're comfortable with yet?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very sad story of 3 teens in the Bronx, trying to survive.  Obviously leading toward a tragedy, but not the one the reader (at least not this reader) is expecting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got about 3/4 of the way through, and though I know whatever the big action is will happen soon, I had to give up. It was far too outside my knowledge and scope of understanding or appreciation. However, anyone interested in a gritty, street-driven novel set in and around a housing project focused...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44355777">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a powerful book, but I have to admit that I had a hard time with the writing style.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[urban story that weaves in and out of a timeline while switching back and forth from the perspective of several down on their luck inner city kids.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[booktalking for NoveList]]></body>
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