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I had trouble with this one, but I think only part of it is the book's fault. Stream-of-consciousness isn't my favorite style, but I understand its usefulness in this case. The Girls are awful, but very Mean Girls-esque. Too much, I think.

The real reason I had a hard time here is that while I've been trying to read this, my fur baby Boris got really sick, really fast, and Friday I had to have him euthanized.
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So true.... but, when you‘re 11, it‘s hard to see.

"Above all , watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." Roald Dahl

A mesmerizing story that poignantly captures an 11-year-old girl's hopes, fears, and insecurities, all while she is stuck in the depths of an old well. Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down.

Metaphors and similes make my head hurt, picking apart those sentences in Language Arts, making all those words fall away from their sentences and separating them into gerunds and modifiers and whatever's. It's like sentence massacres, those poor words bleeding sadly all over the page. I don't know why school has to take everything good and turn it boring and painful and bad. If I ran a school, I'd make it fun. I'd make it better.

But, obviously, popular and mean are tied together so tight they're like those knots that just tighten and tighten no matter how hard you try to untangle them. Mean is where they get their power. P. 29 #ya #kidslitchat

This has been a really wonderful and heartbreaking read. Sometimes it becomes hard to continue, but it's so well written and there are great moments of hilarity. *Note: do not read this on a plane. It's already super claustrophobic and this did not help!!

It may be because of Michele O. Medlin's excellent performance of the audiobook, but I'm loving this affecting contemporary novel about a middle grade girl who fell down a well & is counting on the class mean girls to go for help. I can't stop listening while waiting for dinner to come off grill.

Went into this one thinking it would be a light read, but shortly after starting it, I realized it wouldn't be. The way Kammie's physical and emotional pain is described really makes the reader feel right there in the well with her. Definitely recommend!