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Look Both Ways

Jason Reynolds

Look Both Ways

Subjects

  • Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
  • Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after

Average rating

4 out 5

21 reviews

In ten stories (one per block), find out what really happens on the walk home from school, when there are no parents or teachers to supervise (or stop the fun!). From hilarious escapades to brave challenges, join the walkers for one journey and many, many detours…

Reviews

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The main characters all went to the same school and the book contained completely different characters in each chapter. One of the chapters was 4 children stealing money because they wanted to pay for stuff to help their parents who had cancer and had all been through tough times.

Princess Peaches Spaghetti-Hoops 28.08.2024

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Was a good book to read. The cover looked like it would be childish and I though it would have been aimed at younger readers, but you know they say never judge a book by its cover! So I read the book and overall it was more or less a short story collection focusing on a different group or single student who go to Latimer middle school.

Chief Stinky Legend 16.08.2024

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This book is Non-fiction because in the book it said a bus fell down from the sky but buses falling down from the sky does not happen. I don't think I liked this book because there were some rude words in the book. I didn't like anyone in this book because all of them were saying rude words. I wouldn't recommend this book to someone else because the person wouldn't like the rude words and they wouldn't like it because also it's called look both ways but they are not even looking both ways . And they are not even cars on the roads for them to look both ways .

Officer Heroica Frankfurter 16.08.2024

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Fun quite a few of paged I enjoyed it

Nurse Pixie Scratchings 28.07.2024

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I did not like this book at all

Director Babs Sequins 01.08.2023

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It is a great book but hard to understand.

Lord Bart Dangerous 06.01.2023

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It is a good book and I would recommend it. My favourite character was probably Cynthia because she is very funny.

Judge Blossom Spaghetti-Hoops 17.07.2022

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really good definitely recommend it

Anonymous 19.05.2022

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I liked how it wasn't just 1 story but it was 10 different stories that were all connected

Dona Candyfloss Moonlight 19.08.2021

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I liked it but I think it has been given too much praise

Duchess Bubbles Elephant 13.08.2021

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It was really nice and the book just got more and more interesting I liked. Th Ame Jasmine are best friends and I like there relationship with each other as friends. Yes I would recommend it to my sister cause she likes intresting stuff.

Madam Beany Porridge-Oats 13.08.2021

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"Look Both Ways" was a good book to read, however it was not like my preferred book.The cover looked like the book would be childish and I thought it would have been aimed at younger readers, but you know what they say! : 'Never judge a book by its cover!'.So I read the book; overall it was more or less a short story collection focusing on a different group or single student(s) who go to Latimer Middle School.My personal favorite 'short story' was "Southview Avenue- Okabooka Land " which focused on a girl called Cynthia-who was more or less the class's practical joker- and the difficulties she faced in her family.I also liked "Placer St.-The Low Cuts Strike Again" which concentrated on a group of girls and boys who attended Latimer Middle School and whose parents suffered from a different variant/type of cancer, i.e breast cancer, stomach cancer, prostate cancer and so on.The children cut their hair short as though paying tribute to their family members who suffer from cancer and all the others who suffer as well.They take off money and what they called "loose change"from other students.They would then buy sweets from Ms. Cee Cee and sell those for even more money.After that the bought a large amount of ice-creams for Bit's (one of the Low Cuts) mother, who was a cancer patient.Overall,this book was good but not what I expected, and I would rate this short story collection 7/10.

Queen Amazonia Snivel 07.08.2021