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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>	Valerie Zenatti is just like any other Israeli teenager. She has dreams, a boyfriend, and an evolving sense of self. But she and all her other friends know that their time is coming. One day they will get the call, just as their fathers and mothers did, informing them that it is their turn to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73031003">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;When I Was a Soldier&quot; was an interesting memoir. Valerie was born in France in 1970, immigrated to Israel with her family when she was thirteen, and joined the Israeli army five years later when she turned eighteen. The memoir focused as much on her personal life as on her training.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80570766">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was a Soldier<br/>By Valerie Zenatti<br/>Published by Bloomsbury USA, May 2005<br/>250 pgs.<br/>$16.95<br/>Isbn: 1582349789<br/>Isbn- 13: 9781582349787<br/>Rating: 9/10<br/>Ages 12 and up<br/><br/>Valerie Zenatti was born in Nice, France. She never thought that she would become a so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71649391">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>It’s a memoir of a girl, Valèrie Zenatti, who was born in France but lives in Israel from the age of thirteen and is thus drafted into the army. The book very expertly juxtaposes her pre-army life with her experiences in the service. I saw myself and my friends in her, and had to imagine wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66053438">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When she wrote <em>When I Was a Soldier</em>, Valerie Zenatti was an 18 year old girl in the Israeli army.  She was completing her mandatory two years of military service that begins for all Israelis, men and women alike, when they turn 18.  Her memoir recounts the thoughts, feelings, and actions that she ex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46532915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The memoir reads more like a novel, emphasizing the emotional continuity of the author's experience serving for 2 years in the Isreali national army immeidately after high school.  Valerie's voice is decidely teen-aged; this makes her strongly relatable for any teen reader, particularly girls.  She ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7751990">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed learning about a different military experience, one that is mantadory.  Interesting as well to see how a young woman goes through this mandatory military experience and comes to terms with it and other parts of her life, moving from an adolescent to an adult.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[True story of an young girl that is from Israel and did her mandatory time in the military service. A great coming of age tale. Makes me think maybe all teens should do a year two in the military. I would have hated it at the time but it would have been good for me. Really seems to make one grow int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74387915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[if you want a book about a girl living a life about war and in the army, friends and family and love. then this is the book for you.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great young adult novel I intended to read beofre my second trip to Israel. Not wanting to take a library book to Israel I left it until I reutrned home. I twas a quick read for me detailing one girls journey through the required military service in Israel. I could relate to her misgivings...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2261668">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very interesting book about something I never thought I was interested in. The Israeli army. I thought it was refreshing to read about a female soldier. And not necessarily about combat.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Basically, if you'd said, &quot;After finishing school, every Israeli citizen must serve two years in the military--even the females,&quot; you would have saved me two days of reading. Nothing happened in this book; the girl does her service, and then goes home. Lame.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great book, you see the author as a carefree teen and then when she is 18 she must enter the army because that is what all good Israelis do!  There is a significant change as she sheds her old life and becomes  a defender of her people's freedom, compelling and absorbing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very interesting and worthwhile book, especially for anyone with an interest in the military or other cultures. Reading about the Israeli army from the perspective of an 18 yr old woman, who considered herself patriotic yet held very liberal beliefs, was fascinating. ]]></body>
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