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Book Reviews of Flipped
Book Review: Book Review for Flipped
Summary: 3 Stars
I think this book was OK. I rate it 3 stars. This book was about a boy named Bryce and a girl named Juli. First Juli is liking Bryce and Bryce is avoiding her. Then, some things were overheard by Julie. Thinks soon flip. His friend Garrett just makes it worse for Bryce. I thought this book was ok because some parts were boring and sometimes it was interesting and you wanted to find out what happens next. I think you should read it if you like books with two perspectives. The book gives you two people's ideas on one thing.
B. W.
Book Review: A Flip Flopping Story
Summary: 4 Stars
Flipped is a wonderful book looking at one story in two perspectives. After I read this book I looked at every characters' perspective in my other books. This book starts when Juli and Bryce are in [..] and goes through their relationship up to [...]. I recommend this book for 4th through [...]because for anything younger than [...]the time jumps and perspective jumps may be too confusing. I like this book because it's unique. It's unique because not many books have a view of two perspectives. When you read this book you will always ask yourself while reading: who does (s)he feel? Or, I wonder what (s)he thinks. This is an awesome book I hope you enjoy it. Book Review: flipped into this book
Summary: 5 Stars
"The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran." Now in eighth grade their views of each other flip to he likes her and she doesn't like him. The book Flipped, by Wendelin Van Draanen, is about Bryce Loski and Julianna Baker, Juli for short, as they go through their lives talking about each other and then flipping their views on each other. Their stories start the summer before second grade when Bryce Loski and his family moved into the house across the street. Juli was so excited when she saw Bryce she loved him, but she loved his blue eyes most of all. Bryce could see she couldn't take a hint when his father told her to go home. It was like that through seventh grade until the day her favorite tree, the sycamore tree, was going to be cut down. It was the tallest tree in the neighborhood and she loved climbing it all the way up and just sit there watching the sunset or the sunrise. One day she found out they were going to cut the tree down and so she protested in the tree but when she asked for Bryce to come up with her he simply ignored her which was the first reason she didn't like him anymore. The rest of the story I will explain with my views on why I liked this book. This book is interesting with the views of Juli and Bryce's opinion on each other. It's also interesting to see their views on what's going on in their lives also.
This book looks at each others views when there's a new chapter. The chapters have names then where the page number is you can see a line from it to a name and that's how you know who the person telling the story is. It's interesting because Bryce will start telling a story about a time Juli screwed up his life, then Juli will put the story in her perspective. Like at the time Juli had given life to not only one but six baby chicks for a science project so she raised them and gave them names: Clyde, Bonnie, Abby, Dexter, Eunice, and Florence. She found out after raising them that they had laid eggs and was selling them to her neighbors for two dollars a dozen. Then one day she figured that Bryce's family wasn't getting any and felt sorry for them. So she started giving them eggs but instead of eating them the family was afraid of salmonella poisoning so they threw them away and told Bryce to tell her to stop giving them any. Bryce thought he would hurt her feelings if he told her that so it went on for two years and he didn't tell her. Until one day he threw them away and had to take the garbage out and she was still standing at the door when he went out but she spotted the egg carton and asked, "What happened? Did they break?" She finally found out what happened all the time those two years. In her version of the story she says everything that happened in the story.
Within a chapter an author can say how the character is feeling at a point in the story. Since this story changes the characters in every other chapter the views are obviously going to be different and this is another reason I liked this book. One character says something about another character and then says how they look but can't tell the reader how the other character feels at the moment but they'll say how they feel. Then when you get to the other character's thoughts you'll know really what they're feeling at that point but then you'll get the characters feeling about how the other character looked but not how they think. Just like when Bryce found out about Juli's retarded uncle and then makes the wrong move and tells his friend Garrett about it and he thinks Juli is just doing her own thing in the library. Then Garrett said, "A retard? Well, that explains a lot, doesn't it?" Then Bryce didn't want to look like he cared about Juli so he laughed at his friend's joke. Well with Juli she heard everything and she was really upset at what she heard but she talked about how Bryce sounded not what he thought.
I recommend this book to people who like teenage stories with drama. This book will have you reading and reading to see what Bryce has to say about something and then what Juli has to say about something. It's very nice to read and it's a book you'd read for fun like other teenage books. Like the two characters in this book it had me flipped.
T. Shepard
Book Review: Flipped
Summary: 3 Stars
By:Ray
The silliest book ever is flipped. This book is about a boy and a girl, at first the boy Brice moves in and then Julie (the girl) comes over from across the street and fellows Brice and gets in a fight with her and gets caught by his mother holding his hand and on it goes until 8th grad and on the way Julie does a since project with bobby chicks and they make all sourest of problems. But over all it was a good book and I give it a 3
Book Review: Julianna Baker & Bryce Loski <3 By: Monique
Summary: 5 Stars
This book, Flipped, is about two young teenagers who tell their childhood story. Julianna Baker is a girl who fell in love with a boy with "dazzling blue eyes" but then after six years she finally realized that he was nothing but beautiful eyes. She is that kind of person who loves to sit on top of a tree and watch the sunset and just think. It's somewhat like she is a nature lover because she fixed up her yard. But she also only did that because she felt bad about how messy her family lived. Bryce Loski is a boy who tried so hard to avoid his obnoxious neighbor but then his prospective of her turned upside down. He's the kind of type where he cares about what his friends think so he pretends to agree with something bad his friend said even though he disagrees. But afterward, he feels horrible. Juli and Bryce are simple kids who are struggling with the fact that things are changing and they find out that they have regrets about their thoughts.
It all started in the summer before second grade. The second Bryce moved into the neighborhood, Juli was stuck to Bryce like a baby that can't take their eyes off a huge bottle of milk. Before the Loski's could even finish unloading their furniture and items, you find Juli leaving mud marks on their property trying to play with Bryce. But as six years of Bryce running away from Juli passed, their whole prospective of each other flipped. Once Bryce finally realizes what was in front of his face, Juli convinces herself that she is through with him. So as Bryce is trying to get Juli to forgive him and show her that he has changed, Juli is getting really confused about how she is feeling. And there's this part when Bryce actually tries to... Well, you'll find out. Do you think there is still hope for something to happen between them?
Taking turns of telling the story in first-person, Bryce and Juli tell their side of the story. It was a positive effect on the story. The readers know who is thinking what. You can get inside their thoughts and mind. The author might have chosen to write it in first-person point of view so that the reader can get a better understanding of their feelings and to compare the way they think of the things happening as they grow up.
Flipped is a spectacular book and I would highly recommend this story to everyone. The way the author, Wendelin Van Draanen, wrote the book was unique to me because it was the first book that I have read that has a format like this one has. It made me understand that some people look at things in a different way than you do. Flipped is one of the best books I have read. The story overall is great. But to me, the ending seemed like it was incomplete. Most of the books that I have read in the past end with the author saying what had happen in the future. In this story, the author ends the story with Julianna saying, "Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know. Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light." I would rate this book an eight on a scale from one to ten - ten being the best book.