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Anyone but You
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Lara M. Zeises (Goodreads Author)
Critter and Jesse have been close to Seattle since her dad moved in with their mother. Closer still since he took off six years ago and Layla decided to raise Sea as one of her own. It’s a decision none of them regrets, especially not Critter. He’s more than a brother–he’s Seattle’s best friend.
Now it’s vacation, and Seattle and Critter are stoop sitters, at least until su...more
Now it’s vacation, and Seattle and Critter are stoop sitters, at least until su...more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
November 8th 2005
by Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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This book was a great read! The primary focus of the book was family and the definition of family.
Seattle and Critter have been brother and sister and best friends since Seattle's father Frank left her with Critter's family six years ago. The book alternates between the viewpoint of brother and sister and addresses the feelings of all the family members as Frank returns.
It also examines the changing relationship between Seattle and Critter as their love interests ch...more
Seattle and Critter have been brother and sister and best friends since Seattle's father Frank left her with Critter's family six years ago. The book alternates between the viewpoint of brother and sister and addresses the feelings of all the family members as Frank returns.
It also examines the changing relationship between Seattle and Critter as their love interests ch...more
Super fast read about a step brother and sister (although their parents never married) who struggle to deal with their feelings for each other when they both start dating other people. The bigger message of the book is just what makes a family and how in some ways, we can choose.
Is having sexual feeling for someone you consider part of the family but who really isn't a sibling incestuous? One way or the other these teens are tormented by their feelings for each other.
A quick read --- some of your students might enjoy reading a book about girl skate boarder.
Very predictable. For Ages 14+
Long on drama, short on plot.
I read this book judging it from the cover. I was intriqued by the bright colors and the skateboarder.
I thought it would be just another one of those 'teen drama' books.
But it really wasn't.
It really showed me how family can change your life, wheather you have one, it's broken, or if it's a mish-mashed one, like Seattle and Critter's.
It really showed me, as a teenager, that I really do need to appreciate my family more, appreciate what I have.
I thought it would be just another one of those 'teen drama' books.
But it really wasn't.
It really showed me how family can change your life, wheather you have one, it's broken, or if it's a mish-mashed one, like Seattle and Critter's.
It really showed me, as a teenager, that I really do need to appreciate my family more, appreciate what I have.
A small, easy, light read, that took if even three hours of my time.
It shows family, if even not biological, can be very hard to handle when growing up.
I thought it would be a little awkward to read even if in reality it's not incestuous since they are in anyway connected as sibling but the author does a good job at making the awkward lesser.
A bantery, easy to read book for someone with a bit of spare time on their hands.
It shows family, if even not biological, can be very hard to handle when growing up.
I thought it would be a little awkward to read even if in reality it's not incestuous since they are in anyway connected as sibling but the author does a good job at making the awkward lesser.
A bantery, easy to read book for someone with a bit of spare time on their hands.
Sea and Critter are not biologically related but have been raised as brother and sister. Despite the fact that psychological studies suggest that they would NEVER do this, they start to find each other attractive. Where did I read about this book and what made me take it from the library?
It was also pretty vulgar, without having any redeeming values (South Park: vulgar BUT hilarious and often clever)
It was also pretty vulgar, without having any redeeming values (South Park: vulgar BUT hilarious and often clever)
Like "Two Way Street" by Lauren Barnholdt the story is written switching from Seattle & Critter's, the two main characters, pov; I really like this style and I think it really suited the book!
*not very spoilerish but still...WARNING* The not quite love story between the Sea & Critter was very sweet and since they're not blood brothers it's all right to ship madly for those two...which I do!!! Wondeful story!
*not very spoilerish but still...WARNING* The not quite love story between the Sea & Critter was very sweet and since they're not blood brothers it's all right to ship madly for those two...which I do!!! Wondeful story!
that it was awesome
It was a quick read, and I always enjoy books written with more than one perspective. But there were some weird incest references in the book and I felt it was unnecessary. If I wanted incest, I'd just read V.C. Andrews!
this was amzing and sad cuse every thing falls apart and is wroung and sad in the end it canges it made me cry i luv it!!!!!
O totally loved this easygoing book...with a skatergirl, friendships and love! <3
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Lara M. Zeises is the author of Bringing Up the Bones, a Delacorte Press Prize Honor Book (2001); Contents Under Pressure, a Delaware Blue Hen Teen Book Award winner and an IRA-CBC Young Adults' Choice (2006); and Anyone But You, a YALSA Popular Paperbacks selection (2008). Her latest novel, The Sweet Life of Stella Madison, was published in July 2009.
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“Critter: I was fairly relieved when Sea took off on her own. She was wearing some two-sizes-too-small T-shirt, practically forcing my eyes to home in on “the girls,” and all I could think was I’m going to turn into a pillar of salt.”
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