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Title: Downsiders by Neal Shusterman ISBN: 0-689-83969-3 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.35 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beware: Mental Involvement + humor ahead.
Comment: In The Downsiders, Neal Shusterman once again takes a major social concept and turns it into a remarkable story. (As in The Dark Side of Nowhere.) Lindsay is not your typical New York girl; she's part of the scene, but not really. What's more, due to some major bungling on the part of her engineer-father, she occupies a home that has, literally, a hole-in-the-wall. Her half-brother is simply a bane to her existence, her father barely even part of it, and so Lindsay is ripe for a good adventure. And she definitely gets it--with Talon, a boy she meets who lives in the Downside, an underworld that is simply out-of-this-world. Where is that? In the long forgotten, unused tunnels of the New York subway system. There is an entire society down there, comprised of humans who have built a life entirely different from that of the "Upsiders" but from their "garbage." (Oddly reminiscent of some otherworld... the ice-age? Refugees? Hmmm...) I found Shusterman's rich and fasinating description of this world and its people to be the best part of the book...followed closely by a terrific stampede scene. One thing for sure, the book is riveting...But as you put the book down, finished, you begin to think... We all want the world to be "ONE." But can two opposite sides of a coin meld together? What would happen to the coin? Should all the societies of the world combine? Would it be worth losing all the "richness" of the poor cultures...would it kill them off or help them survive? Another insight from this book: you really see how people in an impossible situation can improvise, and even create magic, in a time and place other people would consider "the dredges of the earth" and the end of life...the Downside. Read this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Mole People
Comment: The premise of the book is fantastic. Lindsay, a girl who has recently moved to live with her father in New York, stumbles across Talon, a boy who lives underneath New York City. In a friendship that grows Lindsay learns about the world of the mole people or downsiders from Talon. Talon comes to learn of the topside world because of the relationship as well. But what may seem to be an innocent friendship at first could be the pin of a grenade that is pulled resulting in a war of downsiders against topsiders.
The book does have a rich premise, with wonderful details, and charming characters... but it suffers from having an implausible group of cows running through the underground of New York and a weak ending. Downsiders, is a good book that Shusterman and his editor should have spent more time on in order to make it a great one.
Crazy James
Rating: 5
Summary: OMG
Comment: Oh my gosh! This is the best book ever. I just started reading it and it is like The Time Machine meets The cricket in times square. This book is funny, sad, and very adventurous. It makes you think about those people in your life who could use a smile their way and it makes you want to make a new friend. I love this book. The characters are so adventurous. I totally recommend this book for teens out their who love an addicting book.
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Title: The Shadow Club by Neal Shusterman ISBN: 0142300942 Publisher: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Shadow Club Rising by Neal Shusterman ISBN: 0142500895 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Dark Side of Nowhere by Neal Shusterman ISBN: 076534243X Publisher: Starscape Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Mindquakes: Stories to Shatter Your Brain by Neal Shusterman ISBN: 0765341883 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: What Daddy Did by Neal Shusterman ISBN: 0064470946 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: 01 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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