Moving book | Nineteen Minutes

Awesome!!!! | Nineteen Minutes | Jodi Picoult

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	• Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult Washington Square Press, 2008 - 480 pages average customer review:based on 533 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I stayed up last night to finish it

I had not read any other of Piccoult's works, so came to this book with no preconcieved expectations. It is told in a flashback style -- flipping from one time period to another. This is not a technique that I generally enjoy, but it is well done here, and not confusing.
The book help my interest well, although it addresses a difficult topic: many "popular" students bullying another student over several years. The bullying here is extreme -- to the point of "pantsing" the victim in a high school cafeteria, and forwarding the victim's a private love letter to everyone at his school).
The book tells the story from several points of view -- including several adults and teens. I recommend the book.

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Moving book

Very insightful book into the minds and emotions of teenagers and their parents. Couldn't put it down although the topic of a school shooting was difficult.

Awesome!!!!

All I have to say is that this is the first novel I have ever read of Jodi's and I thought it was amazing!!!! Jodi does an awesome job in making her time point across about how an child who is being made fun of can also be a victim as well. I am forever changed. It has forced me to look at similar situations from every perspective. I think every person (especially children) should read this novel.

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A MUST read by all classroom teachers!!!!

Earlier this year our high school book club chose to read "19 Minutes". Several high school teachers participated as well as some middle school teachers. The book was amazing. Many students that chose to read the book were reluctant readers but had heard so much about the book from other students that they decided to read it too. During the two meetings held to discuss this book, many valuable conversations took place. Some students said "How can people be so crule",or "I've felt bullied like this before." Some students went as far to say that they new someone at school that might fit the shooters profile.
Simply a riveting book that should be a MUST read for all teachers. It really opened my eyes!!

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Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.

Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes--or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show--destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be.

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