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Holistic Guidance - Lock and Key
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Manufacturer: Viking Juvenile
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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780670010882
ISBN: 067001088X
Label: Viking Juvenile
Manufacturer: Viking Juvenile
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2008-04-22
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Viking Juvenile
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“Ruby, where is your mother?” Ruby knows that the game is up. For the past few months, she’s been on her own in the yellow house, managing somehow, knowing that her mother will probably never return. That’s how she comes to live with Cora, the sister she hasn’t seen in ten years, and Cora’s husband Jamie, whose down-to-earth demeanor makes it hard for Ruby to believe he founded the most popular networking Web site around. A luxurious house, fancy private school, a new wardrobe, the promise of college and a future—it’s a dream come true. So why is Ruby such a reluctant Cinderella, wary and defensive? And why is Nate, the genial boy next door with some secrets of his own, unable to accept the help that Ruby is just learning to give? Best-selling author Sarah Dessen explores the heart of a gutsy, complex girl dealing with unforeseen circumstances and learning to trust again.
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Summary: Amazing
Comment: I've recently discovered Sarah Dessen and could not put any of her books down. I borrowed this book from the library, and was bummed when I had to wait a week to get it, but it was worth it!!! Definitely a good read!!!!!
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Summary: Enchanting Review: Lock and Key
Comment: LOCK AND KEY
SARAH DESSEN
Contemporary Young Adult
Rating: 4 Enchantments
Ruby is living a secretive lifestyle with her mother, an emotionally dependent alcoholic. Ruby also has plenty of secrets that she hides from others, even her closet friends. Ruby always does what she's told and never questions her mother, even though most of the time she should. Ruby also helps support her mother by working at a job where she delivers peoples lost luggage to them. Ruby, though fun loving, is also very stubborn and sticks to her ways.
Seven months before Ruby's eighteenth birthday, her mother disappears. This isn't the first time, so Ruby assumes that she'll be back. When a few days absence turns into a few weeks, Ruby does what she can to keep her living situation in the yellow farm house afloat. School by day and work by night, Ruby thinks she's going to be able to get away with it, until her nosy landlords comes into the house to fix the dryer. That's when everything falls apart. Ruby is taken into protective custody until her older married sister, Cora, can pick her up. Ruby is taken to live with Cora and her always upbeat husband, Jamie, and introduced to an upscale, affluent lifestyle. Ruby, still wearing the key to the yellow farmhouse around her neck, is skeptical about her new living situation and private school. When Ruby meets Nate, a popular neighbor boy, she tries to keep to herself and hide her past. But one upsetting afternoon changes everything.
LOCK AND KEY is a very real story to read. The story sucks you into Ruby's world of hiding with her mom from creditors and moving to new places all the time. You feel for Ruby when her mom disappears without a word. The story drags in some parts, but it picks right back up, and you want to keep reading to see if Ruby is ever going to feel like she's a part of her sister's family. Nate is also a very mysterious character with some secrets of his own that are surprising to hear. The story flows very smoothly and is very fast to read. I also liked how Ruby's down-to-earth nature. Even though her sister and brother-in-law are rich and willing to pay for everything, Ruby still insists making her own way.
Ms. Dessen is a well known author from her other books, HOW TO DEAL, THAT SUMMER, JUST LISTEN, KEEPING THE MOON, SOMEONE LIKE YOU, and THE TRUTH ABOUT FOREVER. On www.amazon.com, you can check out a video that goes with LOCK AND KEY. Ms. Dessen talks about the book and points out some places from the book and what gave her the idea for it. You can also visit her site, where she blogs at www.SarahDessen.com.
Holly
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
August 2008
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Summary: Heartwarming!
Comment: Ruby is abandoned by her mother. She thinks she can sail on through living alone until her 18th birthday until she is discovered by her landlords and is sent to live with her sister who she hasn't seen in 10 years.
This is my first book by Sarah Dessen and I rather enjoyed it. I saw the movie that two of her books was based on, How to Deal, and didn't exactly like it so I never tried out her books until now. But I'm glad I did. Lock and Key had a really nice theme of family, more specifically sisters. It also speaks about losing the hard shell that a lot of us walk around wearing from day to day.
I felt there were enough secondary characters to keep the story interesting but not so many that I started forgetting who was who. I especially liked Ruby's friend Olivia and her cousin Laney. The book is rather long but I read it pretty fast because the story was so great. Nothing too shocking happens, it's a quiet sort of story but none the less very worth the read. It's sort of a snippet of life sort of story.
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Summary: Lock and Key
Comment: Title- Lock and Key
Author- Sarah Dessen
Rating- 4/5
Good-
I've been waiting forever for this book. I am a huge fan of Sarah Dessen, have been for many years. When I got it, I could not wait to read it... Now, onto the book. This was a very very deep book. The characters had many layers that made them unique and interesting. None of the major characters fit any typical stereotypes. Lock and Key had a very different plot line that intrigued me from the very first moment I read about it.
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I find myself running out of good things to say... That doesn't make it a bad book though. It's just that I don't think I'd be able to honestly say that the book wowed me. I wasn't amazed, I didn't feel the need to stay up late in the night to finish it. There's nothing truly awful about the book... but I didn't feel the same connection with it like I did with This Lullaby or Dreamland, my two favorites of hers.
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Summary: wonderful
Comment: Lock and Key was a wonderful book, very Dessen style. The story line was simple, but really made you consider what was happening in the story. It wasn't hard to keep up with, an easy read. I give it four stars because the ending didn't really do it for me, but the rest of the book was great!
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