After Tupac & D Foster Audiobook

" I read this because it was a Newbery Honor book. "

" I really enjoyed how this book was written in the narrator/main characters real voice. i think the use of this type of voice and jargon makes the book so much more beleivable and relateable. for some of my fellow classmates i know they thought it was hard to read becuase it was written in this way, but i actually really liked it because i could envision and hear the narrator speaking, which would have been much harder if the book had been written in someone elses pattern of speech. "

" I really liked the flow of this one. Woodson does such a good job of putting her reader right into the scenes of her characters. I really felt like I was sitting on the steps with the three girls. Worth reading a recommending to 4th grade through middle school. "

" This book is really more like 3.5 stars, but I'm rounding up today. I did like this book, and I thought it spoke fairly well about growing up and changing. However, I don't think it is a book that will stay with me over long. It doesn't have that resonance that many of the other Newbery, and YA books I've read, which is sad. It very well might be the mood I have been in while reading it, but it doesn't really speak to me. I still liked it though, and I can see why this received an Honor. "

" Beautifully written, poetic, full of feeling. "

" I really shouldn't rate it because I didn't finish it. I tried, but it just didn't work for me. Maybe I couldn't relate, but it just seemed as if the same thing kept happening in every chapter. "

" this was a great book about friendship and the things that bring strangers together and the kind of friendship that most people search all their lives for "

" One of the best Woodson books I've ever read :) "

" The prologue threw me off a bit, because it was so much like a summary, and I wasn't sure who I was supposed to be focussing on. I loved the voices, though, and that may have been because of the audiobook narrator, but she did a great job with the dialogue. "

" This was a cute friendship story more than anything about Tupac, except that the two friends were going through difficult times in their lives when Tupac was killed, and his death brought up feelings of family and friends. "

" 2009 Newbery Medal Honor book "

" Ms. Woodson is amazing. I loved every character. "

" this is a nice book "

" Very disappointing book. Tupac and the characters in this book didn't seem to match. The issues the author touched on were so many I felt none were give the time or the justice they deserved. "

" Mediocre teen lit. "

" This was a newbery honor book. It just alright. "

" I love Woodson although her books are "quiet" and wouldn't appeal to the Washburne masses. She deals with weighty issues and writes beautifully. Yet I don't remember the plot so well... "

" The voice in this urban literature rings true. "

" Newbery Honor Book 2009. I am so old that I had to have one of my children explain Tupac to me. I enjoyed it because I gained a "flavor" of a Queens neighborhood in the mid 1990s. I enjoyed Jacqueline Woodson's book, Feather, more, however. "

" This book was a great book it had so much details and it wasn't even a picture book but i could see exactly what the author was talking about. I pictured almost everything with all of the things she said to describe the people in the book so it was a good book. "

" Jacqueline Woodson writes books filled with emotion. I didn't know who Tupac was until I read this. "

" This book is about three girls growing up in a ghetto neighborhood. All they have is each other and music. There favorite artist is Tupac. The reason Tupac is there favorite artist is because they can relate to his songs. This book was boring. "

" A bit slow, but good story.Offers strong characters that may give middle school students someone to relate to.Themes of foster families, urban life, musical influences and more are high interest for MS students. "

" This was an interesting slice of life in the inner-city. I enjoyed immersing myself in another culture and learning a different perspective on life. "

" I loved it. I actually read an excerpt from her book "Feathers" in African American Fiction and the excerpt was so good, I hunted in the children's section for books by her. I found this one and loved it. My favorite thing about this book was that it was very relatable. "

" music and the binding of it between friends is strong and I remember that too. D and her family and friends of growing up and struggling through the turmoil of life "

" I read this book in 2 days.... It was a fast read but the plot was ok. I liked how Tupac was a character even though they never actually met him. "

" It was amazing how much Woodson includes in such a short Novel. However, I do not know how appropriate this book is for Upper Elementary Students. I would wait for middle school to introduce this book. "