An excellent suspense novel, About David deals with teens in the 90's coping with a close friend's suicide. Lynn, the main character, has just lost her long time best friend due to suicide. Horrible as this is , more terrible is that he not only killed himself, he also murdered his parents. Jeffery, close friend of David, cannot cope with all the pressure in school, all the rumors, and his only friend's death. He has a nervous breakdown. The school is in chaos; newspaper reports spread fake rumors. Lynn is terribly saddened. Luckily she has her friend Steffi, parents, and shrink, Dr. Collins, to help her feel better. The best part of this novel is when David's notebook and diaries are suddenly found in Lynn's attic. She has to read them through and find out why David actully killed himself.

I personally enjoyed reading this novel; it caught my attention. It's an easy to understand novel, with interesting problems going on. It's clear and very exciting to read. Read it , I recommend it!.

Lynn handled things as I would have handled them Reading the story really took me right into the story with Lynn as she tried to understand why David had doen what he did. Her devastation led her to fall apart. Her relationship with David never went away but the fact that he was gone made her realize that he wasn't going to come back. Her last dream of David let her know that he was at peace for once.

A Matter of Principle is the story of Becca Holtz, 17, a high school junior who works on the newspaper and plays and who has always done everything right. When she and group of friends decide to start an underground paper, though, she finds herself in a world of wrong. While thought-provoking, The Shaft also carries a dirty cartoon making fun of Malloy, the principal, and Miss Holstein, a teacher. Malloy comes down hard on the seven students, suspending them until they agree to apologize. Becca refuses, and through her father's connections in the law field, she and her friends take the school to court in order to resolve this matter of principle.

Becca is a strong teenager, but not overly perfect. Most stories deal with hardship, and most hardships bring out the less-than-perfect sides of us. Becca is used to having a good relationship with her parents and younger sister Abby, and her parents are disappointed in her. She's confused, lonely, and isolated when she's suspended from her high school, and that creates a lot of tension in the family. Her parents support her, but are still angry and disappointed; her sister doesn't know how to look up to her. But her parents do things wrong as well - a good reminder that parents are not always right.

There are many stories that deal with the loss of friends and boyfriends, but Pfeffer handles that effectively in A Matter of Principle. Becca's boyfriend Kenny and her best friend Melissa, Kenny's cousin, both have to drop out of the lawsuit for financial reasons. Becca's anger at both of them is justified but painful. Yes, she has a reason to be angry at them - they've abandoned her with the cause. Yes, they have a reason to be angry at her - it's easy for her to be righteous, because she has no idea of the situations they're in. Becca's breakup with Kenny isn't just the usual angsty teen breakup.

Pfeffer also tackles mid-adolescent alcoholism (one of the seven students, Elliott, is well on his way to becoming an alcoholic) as well as the unlikely bond between Becca and Paul, whom she has never liked, but who turns out to be her staunchest ally through the lawsuit.

I often felt like I was waiting out the lawsuit with Becca. She attends a private high school while she is waiting to see if she'll be allowed back to her public school, and she misses it painfully. A Matter of Principle isn't just about principles, about civil rights: it's about belonging, and Becca belongs where she is no longer allowed to be.

Although the students do win the case against the school, nothing is the same after Becca returns to school: she's lost Kenny and Melissa, perhaps gained a friend in Paul, but the school body is edgy around her, even though it's where she fits best. And that's as it should be. One feels a great sense of relief that they won the case, but no one could expect to go back to school after that and have everything be the same.

Ultimately Becca learns a lot - about people, about what you can and can't expect, even of your friends, and mostly about herself. Susan Beth Pfeffer won't win any Pulitzer prizes for this one, but it makes me think, even makes me sniffle a little.

This was a very interesting book. Its a shame they don't make more books like it.

I like this book because it shows that Jo would do anything to make sure that her sisters won't be adopted by her aunt but instead have herself adopted by her aunt because she thought that her sisters won't mind that. But instead she learns that her sisters do care about her and that she shouldn't "jump to conclusions".

I thought that this was a great book. It was about a girl who decides that she will live with her aunt, because she thinks that she fits the description best. I recommend it because you can relate the problems to your own, only in a different way.

This goes directly to " A reader from California" spin offs aren't always bad because this one is good . Plus it doesn't matter what the cover looks like ! Have you ever heard the saying "don't judge a book by its cover? I guess not because you are judging this book by its cover ! I've read the book and I think iot's one of the best books I've ever read ! So what if Jo is pretty and glamourous . So what if it doesn't look like a tomboy read the book and it even says Jo's a tomboy in the book and she is a little akward! I really like this book ! It's really cool ! It's sad , happy , and angry in some parts but, that's the best part of it !

The book was good and I like how it realates to life by friends pepole who only like u for shallow reasons r not your real friends.

Courage dana was a ok book. I read it for my SSR book in class. I just finished it. At some points I wanted to quit reading. I liked the part where Dana went to the graveyard and saw Brain spray painting the walls, now that was action!

When Evvie turns 16, her father tells Evvie to visit Aunt Grace who disapproves of him because he stole Meg, Evvie's mother from Aunt Grace. During the summer, Evvie takes care of her aunt who broke her ankle and meets two guys. Schyller, Clark's nephew who's Aunt Grace's butler and Sam who loves Evvie. When I read this book I personally felt that it was some type of Soap Opera and a historic book. While she's with Aunt Grace, Evvie learns a lot of things that she didn't know before. Like her father, Nick uses a false name by George and how bad Nick's life was when he was a little kid. She also learns things about Sam and his dark history. I recommend this book to anyone who likes summer romances and happy endings

I liked it. In order to get the full benefit I think you should read them all, starting with Evvie, and going down in order of age of the girls. Meg is actually their mother. The beginning was a little much to take, when they just fell in love so suddenly, and their aunt was so unbelievably strict. It was almost silly how strict she made the circumstances. No, it was silly. But you need to remember that this was a while ago. Towards the end I started to get into it, and above everything, I think she should have written more about what Meg and Nick's life was like before their children, and after they get away from her aunt. Some of the story was a little too unbelievable (Meg was going to be sent to a sanitarium for falling in love). So I think she should have elaborated more, maybe in a new book because she could get some interesting stories developing.

Who Were They Really gives you the scoop on beloved characters, including Alice, Christopher Robin, and Betsy, Tacy, and Tib. Readers and researchers alike will enjoy Pfeffer's book.

I have read the book Little Women and I thought it was excellent, but this book Amy's story bored me to death. I don't know why, but I really didn't like it.

This is a good book for your young reader before she is old enought to read the book Little Women i suggest to show her the movies little women and little men both good movies and get the books for her when she is old enough to read them for they are quite long or make it a family event and read them to her!!!

I loved this book! This was one of the PORTRAITS OF LITTLE WOMEN which tell about the March sisters when they were ten years old. Amy wants her photograph taken, and decides to save up her money so she can get it taken. Then her father has to go fight in the Civil War, and Amy decides to get him a gift instead - one that will cheer him up when he's far away from home. I also read MEG'S STORY, JO'S STORY, BETH'S STORY, MEG MAKES A FRIEND, and BETH MAKES A FRIEND and I can't wait to read JO MAKES A FRIEND and AMY MAKES A FRIEND.

Getting Even, by Susan Beth Pfeffer had a very good plot, but could of been better if they story didn't move along so fast. At some points I didn't even know what was going on and had to read the chapter again. But I did love how the main character (Annie) always kept a positive veiw to what was going on. Although the stories end sort of just dropped off like a fairy tale with no real conclusion and i realy dont like stories like that. I recomend this book to someone who has a lot of spare time and wouldn't mind taking time and reading it slowly and carefully. I really did like the characters of the story, especially Annies parents. They are a model for what every teenage girl dreams of her parents being like.