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Wendy Mass' books are great! I loved A Mango-Shaped Space so much that I decided to get one of her other books, Every Soul a Star, and love that too! She has some other ones, like Leap Day, about someone who was born on February 29. The great thing about them is that they make the subjects sound so cool. Like, if you read A Mango-Shaped Space, I guarantee you will wish you had synesthesia. And Every Soul A Star makes me want to see an eclipse. Has anyone else read some of these awesome books? 

submitted by Lena G
(May 9, 2009 - 7:18 am)

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I haven't read any of those books, but I'll try to find them at the library.  (The library's at the mall, and i wish that it wasn't.) 
One of my friend's dad was born on Febuary 29!  He is 13 right now, I think. (Her dad is thirteen.)

submitted by Meadow, age 11, 11
(May 9, 2009 - 2:07 pm)

Wow, cool! :) My grandfather's cousin was born on February 29, but I never met him. My dad did, though. He said that he was always joking about how young he was. I found that there is a whole magazine for people born on February 29! Isn't that cool? :)

submitted by Lena G
(May 9, 2009 - 5:30 pm)

That is cool! Sort of like how up in the northeast, I believe, there's an entire store just for left-handed people.

I'm halfway through A Mango-Shaped Space, which was assigned for book club, but I find it interesting. (Because sometimes book club books aren't the greatest, y'know?)

submitted by Mary W., age 11.35, NJ
(May 10, 2009 - 12:46 pm)

Yeah, book clubs can open you to things you'd never had tried before. 

submitted by Lena G
(May 10, 2009 - 5:20 pm)

P.S.- Good, one more non-Warriors thread.

Sorry. :/

submitted by Mary W., age 11.35, NJ
(May 10, 2009 - 12:47 pm)

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life is really, really good. (It's also by Wendy Mass.) ^^

submitted by PhoenixFlames, age 12, my own little w
(May 10, 2009 - 11:11 am)

Yeah, I've heard of that! As soon as I can I'm going to get that and Leap Day.

 

Hey, welcome back er... PhoenixFlames! (sorry, it's kind of hard to keep from calling you by your real name) I was considering sending you a sticker via the other website, but you came back on your own. YAY!!! :) 

submitted by Lena G
(May 10, 2009 - 5:22 pm)

*mega-tackle-glomp* Hiya PheonixFlames! Join the Diana Wynne Jones roleplay!

submitted by Jenni, age 12.5, Nowhere or some
(May 10, 2009 - 8:34 pm)

I am so in love with A Mango Shaped Space. Thank you for the new Wendy Mass book suggestion- Every soul a star! Laughing

submitted by Lauren C., age 12
(May 12, 2009 - 10:00 pm)

I really like Wendy Mass's books. I've read A Mango-Shaped Space and Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, and I just bought Every Soul a Star from my school's book fair.

submitted by Allison P.
(May 13, 2009 - 1:50 pm)

DO NOT READ Leap Day. I love all of her other books (at least the few that I've read), but Leap Day was HORRIBLE. Ugh.

submitted by Brynne, age 13, Flying away on
(May 19, 2009 - 9:41 am)

what did you not like about it? what made it so bad? My friend read it, and she said it was good.

submitted by Lauren C., age 12, ca
(June 8, 2009 - 11:29 pm)

Just finished AM-SS. It was really a beautifully written book. Ms. Mass did a lovely job. It was realistic and had actual emotion, and I really got into it.

BUT... *sigh* I really did feel that Ms. Mass bungled the thing with Adam. It was pretty clear that Ms. Mass got tired of him, prefered Roger, and decided to write him off. I thought that was badly done and unprofessional on the author's part- Ah, well, I'll just have Adam send Mia a snobby email and make him out to be some sort of jerk... AFTER they're all friendly [for want of a better word, yes?] at the synesthesia meeting. Face it- that would never happen.

I'm honestly not saying this to be critical, and I really did love the book. But it was, in my humble opinion, just a desperate act that made no sense and hardly contributed to the story. She's thirteen, it's not like she had to be worrying an awful lot about Roger vs. Adam, right?

Overall, though, it was a really excellent story and I learned a lot about something that was really interesting and I'd hardly known existed (synesthesia). The characters were all really well done (well, except for Roger and Adams, who were Stu-ish), particularly Zach, who was clearly one of the best parts of the enture book. It was predictable about Mango and all, but everything else was just fabulous.

submitted by Mary W., age 11.42, NJ
(June 12, 2009 - 7:03 pm)

Um, Leap Day basically was a story about inapropriate things. Oh, and a driving test.

submitted by Brynne, age 14, Flying away on
(August 29, 2009 - 1:33 pm)