Reviews written by Ed Goldberg

Mitchells younger sister, Cassie, is significantly cooler than he is. Hes a geek, as is his best friend David. Juniors, they eat lunch together every day with the lower grades because they take an animation course during junior lunch period. Both good students, Mitchell decides that he...

House of Dance is masterfully written. The prose are almost poetic. Rosie has nothing to do during this summer. Her mother is entangled with the married Mr. Paul, both romantically and logistically, since she works for him washing windows. She has no time for Rosie. ...

Its bad when your brothers friends describe you as neat; not cool neat, but neat neat, like not messy. And a good cook and a nice guy. It doesnt help you convert your best friend into your girlfriend. Its also bad when you get arrested for shoplifting&tidy...

Skin Deep is a beautifully written book about growing up. Andrea Anderson, in 10th grade, thinks very little of herself. Her father left when she was young. Her mother ignores her and, when communicating, is nasty. She has no friends at school and tries to maintain...

By all accounts, Kevin is a hero. He saved a classmate, Leah, from what turned out to be a serial killer, a doctor who injects victims and brutalizes them. And for a time, he was a hero. There were signs congratulating him. There were ceremonies and...

Would you do anything for your Hearts Delight? Catch a falling star, perhaps? Well, Tristran Thorn would do exactly that for his love, Victoria Forester. However, that means crossing the wall that separates Wall, the city, from Faerie. The wall is guarded day and night by...

According to Omnictionary, a Paper Town is a town that does not physically exist. What does that mean? According to Margo Roth Spiegelman, her home town of Orlando is a paper town populated with paper people, whose aspirations are paper thin. She has been trying to run away...

Victor, riding his bike through his Vermont neighborhood, passes a garage sale, typical for rural Vermont, and spies an old, meticulously maintained ROYAL typewriter. No one uses typewriters these days, but he is entranced. The typewriters owner, a Vietnam vet, tells Victor that he can have it for...

Steve broke up with Rhiannon and didnt tell her why. Rumor has it hes going out with Gloria, whose hobby is stealing boyfriends. Nicole, Rhiannons best girl friend, broke up with Danny and didnt tell him why. (I wont tell you why, either.) Jessica broke up...

What would you do if you were eighteen, waitressing in the morning before school and got a $2.5 million tip? Besides jump up and down with joy, that is. Would it change you or your friends and family? Would you go on a big shopping spree and...

If you are Will Tuppence, youre concerned about protons, the subatomic particles. Once thought to be indestructible, it has been proven that they can be smashed to smithereens, lose their mass and ultimately disappear. If protons can disappear, what does that say for the world around us? ...

Ive been avoiding reading Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy for the longest time. Why? I dont know, but what a mistake! It is a GREAT book, from start to finish. I know its old and most of you know about it already, but every now and...

Cassies problems didnt start in eighth grade, but they certainly escalate then. Is it the fact that she believes in evolution when the majority of her classmates doesnt? Is it the fact that she refuses to sing Proud to Be an American during an assembly tribute to September...

What would you do if you were a seventeen year old German girl who found out that the apparel store your parents own (Riemenschneiders Fine Apparel) was originally called Heimann & Compagnie and was previously owned by two Jewish families? Furthermore, you found out that the Jewish families fled...

If youre named Ladybug by your hippy parents after a mutual dream, you change your name as soon as you can. Thus, Ladybug became Ellie. Ellie Yelinsky, attending New England College of Art and Design and taking the six week, between semesters course Freshman Foundations of Drawing....