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Monday, June 30, 2008

Catalyst


I must admit, I've picked up and put down this book several times, for no reason that I can recall. I loved Anderson's other books, Fever 1793, Speak and Twisted , but just never could commit to this one. Obviously, I finally committed, and found, not surprisingly, thatCatalyst did not disappoint. In the last semester of her senior year of high school, and anxiously awaiting her acceptance letter to MIT, Kate, the character around which the story centers, suddenly finds her already complicated world even more so when through a course of events, the #1 female thug ends up living at Kate's house, an event with more than the expected implications. As with her other books, there is plenty of humor, with an equal dose of thought provoking scenes. I think this book is probably one of my favorites! PG-13
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Grendel said...

Thanks for the book review. I have not read Catalyst, although I have read the other three. One of the middle school summer school teachers is using Fever 1793, and her students are using the Library
Resources Page to do some research Since you recommend it, I will definitely read
Catalyst before school starts!

June 30, 2008 at 10:09 PM

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