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Title: Shattering Glass
ISBN: 0689858000
Author:
Gail Giles
Publicate Date: 2003-09-01
Publish: 2003-09-01
List Price: $7.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: when did the glass shatter?
first of all, the title. "shattering glass" may not have meant actual shattering glass. i figured that out. what i am not so sure of is the fate of the characters. and the guy on the cover? was it Rob? Young? Bobster? Coop? i can make good guesses but the statements the witnesses and our star boys made conflicted and were not quite clear about what had happened. I was not sure what to think by the end. who died? i think i know but like i said its a puzzle at first. i would have liked the book to end with the kids getting arrested so i would know but instead it ended, like, people standing still in a room?????
ive been to 3 different high schools and i have never seen that kind of activity.
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2: Shattering Glass: Shattering Lives
The typical high school social scene takes an unexpected and traumatic twist in Gail Giles book Shattering Glass. Most students try to make their senior year of high school one to remember and these students definitely made theirs one to go down in history. What starts out as a suspicious act of kindness turns out to have threatening consequences that alters all of their lives forever.
Simon Glass is the classic nerd. "His pants were too short and his zipper gaped about an inch from the top." He doesn't have any friends, lacks good looks and is someone that no one pays attention to (unless it is with the purpose to make fun of him). All of that changes when the most popular guy in school, Rob Haynes, decides that he wants to make Simon rise to the top of the social standings, and even get him elected class favorite. Rob recruits his gang to help him out with the project. Rob's gang consists of three guys: Young, the narrator of the story, Coop, the all-star jock, and Bob, the handsome girl magnet. Although none of them are quite sure why Rob has taken such a sudden interest in Simon, they agree to help him out, no questions asked.
Rob acts mysteriously throughout the whole novel and never makes the reasons for his actions with Simon known to the others. Although the group remains skeptical to his motives, they do not dare ask nor do anything to alter Rob's plans. However, little does Rob know that Simon has an objective of his own and knows a lot more about these guys than any of them may think. When Simon secretly discovers Rob's true identity and his darkest secret, he takes control over the operation without any of them knowing. Little by little, Simon wins over each member of the gang, scoring their girls along the way. This infuriates Rob and eventually has disastrous consequences for Simon.
In my opinion, this book is great. I originally picked it up to read it because it was one of my summer reading books, but as soon as I started reading it I couldn't put it down, and I finished it in one day. The in-depth characters and the suspicious plot roped me in immediately. I got so drawn in and involved it's almost as if I was one of the students myself. I felt their pain, suffering, and joy in every chapter.
I would recommend this book to high school students, both girls and boys. The story is very realistic to students of this age group and they can easily relate the situation into their own high school atmosphere. As an overall grade, I would give this book an "A." Although you know how the book ends from the beginning, the way it unravels will leave any reader speechless and disturbed. After reading the first paragraph of Shattering Glass, you will keep turning pages until the book is finished. You'll want to fully understand why the narrator states, "I guess, really, we each hated him (Simon Glass) for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him."
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3: Shattering Glass
Shattering Glass by Gail GIles is an amazing book. Simon Glass was the nerd of BVale but Rob, a popular kid at BVale, had an idea to change Simon's life. Rob wanted to make Simon Glass class favorite by the end of the year. Even though they do not see it but Rob has control over his friends. As the end of the year and the prom approches Robs tells his friends to make some favors so Simon can win class favorite. These favors will later hurt Rob's friends and if you read this book you will see if they pay-off for Simon for class favorite. I recomend this book for middle schoolers.
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4: Shattering Glass
Shattering Glass
A nerd named Simon Glass was being bullied by the "old alpha". Then Rob, who was the most popular, was going to make Glass popular. Rob, Young, Bob, and Coop all helped to make him popular. They took him shopping for new cooler clothes, put him on a wok-out plan, and got the "cool" kids to accept him. He climbs up the social ladder until he gets higher then Rob, and then Rob gets annoyed. Then Glass tells Rob that he found out about what really happened to Rob and what his father did to him (molested him for seven years). Rob gets so mad he beats Glass to death.
One reason why I like this book is because it has a lot of drama in it. It's not too much to be confusing, but enough to be entertaining. It is cool how they changed a loser into a would-be prom king.
One reason I don't like this book is because in the end of the book it is really gory. They talk about Glasses blood being all over the place and how Bob and Rob beat his head in. This is a good book except for that part, so I do still recommend it.
j.stadt
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5: shattering glass
This book shattering glass is about a super nerd named Simon glass he has like 20 pens stuffed in his pocket protector. And one day he gets pushed around too much and it turns into a fight and the only person nice enough to help him is rob. And ever since that day rob, young, coop, bobster have been trying to help him like a transformation from super nerd to prom king. But when he gets a new confidence and they will do something they will never forget. And it will have dire consciences. And they will regret it for the rest of there lives.
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