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John Marsden – Take My Word For It Alannah K I rated ‘Take My Word for It’ three out of five stars, because it was a good read but sometimes was a bit boring. It was about a year nine girl called Lisa that goes to a boarding school. She writes a journal and it talks about everything that she does. She gets in the rowing team, she is in the debating team, and she is in charge of the basketball team. In one part of the story Lisa is just saying things that she hates. It was not very interesting. A good part about the book was that whenever there was a different character, John explained what they looked like really well and I could picture them in my mind.

Lisa wrote in her journal every night at her boarding school and when she went to her mum’s or dad’s on the holidays she wrote about that as well. Her dad got re-married and Lisa didn’t like her very much. She began to like her more and more. Marina was a different girl at Lisa’s school. Half her face was burnt, crinkly and red. Marina makes the story more exciting because she never talked and then eventually she said thank you to Lisa for being so nice to her the whole year. Boring, but alright in some parts.  This picture is of Marina, the girl that was really shy and half her face looked like a plastic plate that had been put on a hot stove. Crinkly, wrinkly and red.