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    <body><![CDATA[Thirteen-year-old Dinnie finds her world expanding after her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school.  - From library catalog record<br/><br/>I read this as part of a Children's Literature Group in which I participate.  Sharon Creech is a w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80281694">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was really cute.  It's about a girl, Dinnie, who has moved around all her life (12 times in her 12 years) and doesn't really know what the concept of &quot;home&quot; means, you know?  So her two older siblings are starting to get into some mischief (each in their own way), so her parents ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71276109">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Set in the breathtaking landscape of Lugano, Switzerland, <em>Bloomability </em>is Sharon Creech at her very best.When 13-year-old Dinnie Doone is plucked out of her troubled life by her aunt and uncle and whisked away to an international school in Switzerland, her world is turned upside down. Suddenly surrounded by different cultures, languages, and beliefs, Dinnie struggles to holdon to her past life. Gradually, through friendships and experiences she could have nowhere else, she learns to trust herself and discovers the beautiful &quot;bloomabilities&quot; her new life has to offer.&lt;/P&gt; <p>01 Blue Spruce Award Masterlist (YA Cat.), 00-01 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist (Grds. 6-8), Pacific NW Library Assoc. 2001 Young Reader's Choice Award Masterlist, and 00-01 South Carolina Book Award Masterlist(Grds 6-9) </p> <p>Young Adult's Choices for 2000 (IRA)</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[so confusing!! i just wanted to drop it after the first chapter but i ended up reading the whole book even though it was a pain in the neck. worst book of sharon creech!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Set in the breathtaking landscape of Lugano, Switzerland, <em>Bloomability </em>is Sharon Creech at her very best.When 13-year-old Dinnie Doone is plucked out of her troubled life by her aunt and uncle and whisked away to an international school in Switzerland, her world is turned upside down. Suddenly surrounded by different cultures, languages, and beliefs, Dinnie struggles to holdon to her past life. Gradually, through friendships and experiences she could have nowhere else, she learns to trust herself and discovers the beautiful &quot;bloomabilities&quot; her new life has to offer.&lt;/P&gt; <p>01 Blue Spruce Award Masterlist (YA Cat.), 00-01 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist (Grds. 6-8), Pacific NW Library Assoc. 2001 Young Reader's Choice Award Masterlist, and 00-01 South Carolina Book Award Masterlist(Grds 6-9) </p> <p>Young Adult's Choices for 2000 (IRA)</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[DON'T EVER READ THIS BOOK IT WAS TERRIBLE!!!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Set in the breathtaking landscape of Lugano, Switzerland, <em>Bloomability </em>is Sharon Creech at her very best.When 13-year-old Dinnie Doone is plucked out of her troubled life by her aunt and uncle and whisked away to an international school in Switzerland, her world is turned upside down. Suddenly surrounded by different cultures, languages, and beliefs, Dinnie struggles to holdon to her past life. Gradually, through friendships and experiences she could have nowhere else, she learns to trust herself and discovers the beautiful &quot;bloomabilities&quot; her new life has to offer.&lt;/P&gt; <p>01 Blue Spruce Award Masterlist (YA Cat.), 00-01 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist (Grds. 6-8), Pacific NW Library Assoc. 2001 Young Reader's Choice Award Masterlist, and 00-01 South Carolina Book Award Masterlist(Grds 6-9) </p> <p>Young Adult's Choices for 2000 (IRA)</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book in middle school, and over ten years later I still find it as refreshing as the first time I read it.  The story of Domenica Santolina Doone is an engaging one.  Preferring to be called Dinnie, she is whisked away to Lagano, Switzerland where she goes to an American boarding s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71629055">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Set in the breathtaking landscape of Lugano, Switzerland, <em>Bloomability </em>is Sharon Creech at her very best.When 13-year-old Dinnie Doone is plucked out of her troubled life by her aunt and uncle and whisked away to an international school in Switzerland, her world is turned upside down. Suddenly surrounded by different cultures, languages, and beliefs, Dinnie struggles to holdon to her past life. Gradually, through friendships and experiences she could have nowhere else, she learns to trust herself and discovers the beautiful &quot;bloomabilities&quot; her new life has to offer.&lt;/P&gt; <p>01 Blue Spruce Award Masterlist (YA Cat.), 00-01 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist (Grds. 6-8), Pacific NW Library Assoc. 2001 Young Reader's Choice Award Masterlist, and 00-01 South Carolina Book Award Masterlist(Grds 6-9) </p> <p>Young Adult's Choices for 2000 (IRA)</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[i've been a huge sharon creech fan ever since i read chasing redbird and i always highly recommend her works to everyone. though her books are written for children, i really think they are for everyone. this is a good book to read if you're going to college away from home. it made me appreciate bein...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49071968">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love love love love this book insanely!!!! It's great. It's about a girl named Dinnie who was &quot;kidnapped&quot; to Switzerland, then her second life began. Her first life was her and her family moving place to place following the dad. Stella, her older sister, had a new baby boy and her older ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60470501">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Set in the breathtaking landscape of Lugano, Switzerland, <em>Bloomability </em>is Sharon Creech at her very best.When 13-year-old Dinnie Doone is plucked out of her troubled life by her aunt and uncle and whisked away to an international school in Switzerland, her world is turned upside down. Suddenly surrounded by different cultures, languages, and beliefs, Dinnie struggles to holdon to her past life. Gradually, through friendships and experiences she could have nowhere else, she learns to trust herself and discovers the beautiful &quot;bloomabilities&quot; her new life has to offer.&lt;/P&gt; <p>01 Blue Spruce Award Masterlist (YA Cat.), 00-01 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist (Grds. 6-8), Pacific NW Library Assoc. 2001 Young Reader's Choice Award Masterlist, and 00-01 South Carolina Book Award Masterlist(Grds 6-9) </p> <p>Young Adult's Choices for 2000 (IRA)</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best books I have learned. It show me how to overcome the difficulties by putting positivism on life.The nicest thing of this book is the setting. The way it describes it lets you imagine the frash air throw your face. I read it when I was thirteen so I connect to the girls life a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79690830">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dinnie, in her own words, lives in a &quot;bubble.&quot;  When presented with a wonderful opportunity to attend school in Switzerland for a year, she is both frightened and resentful.   However, with the help of her nurturing aunt and uncle and good friends she begins to move beyond her comfort leve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46614041">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Tinggal jauh dari keluarga dan pindah ke negeri yang asing memang terkadang menyebalkan dan bikin sedih. Ini yang dirasakan sama Dinnie atau nama lengkapnya Dominica Santolina Doone. Dinnie terpaksa harus ikut Paman Max dan Bibi Sandy tinggal di Swiss, berpisah jauh dari keluarga tercintanya, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3430472">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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