Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith


Here is a quote from this story. I think it shows how on target Keeping the Night Watch is about life at middle school. "Lunch is probably the worst subject you have to take in school. Every day you run the gauntlet and try to come out on the other side alive."

This book is written in poems. Each one tells a little story, and all together you know the whole story. It is full of the angst of a boy who is growing up and whose dad has come back to the family after being away.

Using the scale we have for the 25 Book Campaign, I give this book a 4--good book, recomend

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