Charlotte Zolotow Highly Commended

As bland as the snow.

Very repetitive. I certainly couldn't read this to my kid because it would drive me crazy.

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Descriptive. None.

Contrived story, ends before it gets realistic.

Two separate people have loved each other from a distance and never actually had a conversation, but they're in love. Hopefully it works out at the end. It doesn't really say.

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If you love somebody, tell them.

Realistic yet enforces gender and class stereotypes.

Everybody's really lower class. Maybe that's good, because I guess there really isn't that much mixing of lower and upper class, so it's more realistic that way?

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You can be anyone you want to be.

As the title says, nothing happens.

An ultra-short book which lives up to its title.

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Even when moms get mad at their kids, they still love them.