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=Lauren A's 9th Grade Book Review=

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In the novel The Black sheep by Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout it about a fifteen-year-old Kendra Bishop who is fed up with with her parents rules so she gets to trade places through a new TV show called "The Black Sheep" with a girl named Maya Mulligan from California who has hippi type parents who really care about the enivorment. Kendra doesn't know what was in store for her because of the pushy TV producer, Judy who only cares about ratings and mitch a Mulligan who kendra falls for but he hates every aspect of the show. This book, like any other has its ups ups and downs but I would recomend it to any teenage girl. Eventhough I really liked this book, I can't say thats there is nothing I didn't like about it. First, It was a little slow at the beggining because they spent to much time talking about her parents and how boring and uptight they were. Also when she first gets to California her first days there, nothing really happens. Another thing I didn't really like about the book was that in the book Kendra really starts caring about this Otter reservation and even starts a team to help save the otters and I think that they spend too much time on this and sometimes it tends eto get a little boring. I also wished the book would be a little more detailed bacause at times it was not detailed enough so I could not really get into it. The last thing is that it was a really good book but not the "best" book I ever read either. Althogh there are some things that I did not like about this book there were a lot that I did like about it. For instance, It was very interestig and it was not you typical love story, It was very different or a "fish-out-of-water romannce" says Publishers Weekly.Also things surprised and things I didn't exspect to happened, happened and that made mme keep interest in it. Another thing I like about this novel was that the charactrer were real-life and interesting. They werent like vampires of some type of mythical crature they were like someone you would see in the real world and that lets the reders connect with them more. Eventhough i said I wouldd like it to be a little more detailed at some parts, Its not to detailed that it gets boring. Another reason why this book was so interesting was that I really liked the way that they wrote the book it was very understandable but not to easy to read. AS you can see, there may be some things I didn't like but there are more things in this book that are really good. This book kept me intertained, made me connect with the characters and overall was a veery good book and I would definitly recommend it.