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teen survival?? kids trying to get out of the woods after a practical joke goes wrong?? or "goes according to plan but sucks, for them"?? sign me up!!i saw this when i was volunteering my time at the library, and instead of taking it out like a normal person, i just ordered it into the store and bought it. good for the store, bad for the library. and then i get home to this desperate email from the queens library system that says because there have been more budget cuts, they can't order any new
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I read this book primarily because it has been one of the most challenged books in American libraries, and I'm always interested in reading challenged and banned books. The Goats tells the story of two teens, referred to mainly as "the boy" and "the girl" through most of the book, who are the victims of a cruel and humiliating camp prank. They are stripped and left for the night on a small island, a camp tradition that involves choosing two "goats." In a courageous move, however, they choose to
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“Oh, God, I need somebody to take care of me!”
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Jun 28, 2011
Malia
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This is a very quick YA read. I loved the spare prose. I also loved how the adults in this book just didn't "get it," and how the children other than the two main characters were various shades of scary and hard to trust. It all served the "we only have each other" theme of the book. The relationship between the two main characters is very tender.
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Dec 19, 2008
Chelsea
marked it as to-read
Jan 09, 2012
Stephen
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Jessica
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Karigan
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