Books by Corinne Demas
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review 1: This was a quick, easy-to-read, heartfelt book about Irene, a 13 year old from Manhattan who has her whole life uprooted one summer. Her father loses his job and her family must make some tough decisions financially. They move to her Grandfather's country house for the summer, a ...
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review 1: This book left me feeling cold the same way I felt after reading Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland--both are well-crafted, but they lack a certain warmth, and so I had a difficult time caring about anyone in either story. Like Sittenfeld's work, The Writing Circle is populated with ...
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review 1: "Always in trouble" even the name gives the story away. This is a story about a dog that would always be in trouble with his owner Emma. Everyday of the week the dog would do something bad and he would get in trouble. So Emma decides to take him to a dog training. He behaved well...
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review 1: This is a fun rhyme book about what it is like for pirates to go to school. They take their parrots to school with them and the parrots constantly mimic what the pirates say. The other students like the pirates and think they are cool but the pirates are rambunctious, smelly, a...
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review 1: I saw this book recommended as an example of young-adult fiction that also works for adults, and it is. This is a small but lovely, quiet story. The main character's a 16-year-old girl sent off for time with her father, whom she hasn't seen since she was three and has no memory o...