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The Girl in the Well Is Me
The Girl in the Well Is Me | Karen Rivers
11 posts | 16 read | 7 to read
Longing to be one of the popular girls in her new town, Kammie Summers has fallen into a well during a (fake) initiation into their club. Now Kammies trapped in the dark, counting the hours, waiting to be rescued. (The Girls have gone for help, havent they?) As hours pass, Kammies real-life predicament mixes with memories of the best and worst moments of her life so far, including the awful reasons her family moved to this new town in the first place. And as she begins to feel hungry and thirsty and light-headed, Kammie starts to imagine she has company, including a French-speaking coyote and goats that just might be zombies. Karen Rivers has created a unique narrator with an authentic, sympathetic, sharp, funny voice who will have readers laughing and crying and laugh-crying over the course of physically and emotionally suspenseful, utterly believable events.
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ravenlee
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Mehso-so

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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ravenlee And since I lost my Natasha baby three months ago I've been heartbroken, so losing my other cat so soon has left me completely destroyed. So it probably wouldn't matter what I was reading right now. 6y
Jenny I‘m so sorry! Losing a beloved cat is heartbreaking. 🙁 hugs! 6y
wanderinglynn So sorry for your loss. {hugs} ❤️🌈🐱😢 6y
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knittedgnome I'm so sorry. That's really hard two in a row like that. Hugs. ♥️ 6y
BookishGirl06 I‘m so sorry. That‘s horrible to lose both of them like that and so close together as well. 😿😕 6y
Birdsong28 I'm so sorry. Sending you lots of love 😘❤️📚📖 6y
Clare-Dragonfly I‘m so sorry. 😿❤️ 6y
ravenlee Thank you @Jenny @wanderinglynn @knittedgnome @BookishGirl06 @Birdsong28 @Clare-Dragonfly I appreciate it. I'm not handling this well at all. 6y
DivineDiana So sorry. Sending love. ❤️ 6y
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Purplerosiepage
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So true.... but, when you‘re 11, it‘s hard to see.

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Eggs
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"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

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KGlibrarian
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Pickpick

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.

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UnConventionalBookworms
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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.

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ElaEveryday
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cpatrick
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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

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Rlweasley
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Pickpick

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!!

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BethFishReads
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Pickpick

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.

BkClubCare Wow! You've already got me anxious for the poor thing!! 8y
BkClubCare Oh, and are you aware that there is a genre of books abt 'being in a pit and/or well'? Crazy, no? 8y
BethFishReads @BkClubCare no I had no idea that was a genre. But this book is a winner 8y
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emmanoble
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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!