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Monday, January 4, 2010

“The Year Of Secret Assignments” – Jaclyn Moriarty


This book is about three girls who are assigned to involve in the pen-pal project with other three boys from the Brookfield high school as tasks from their English teacher. At first, they don’t put much effort and grace into writing letters hence occasionally, they are just about to fight… However as they reluctantly ask questions to their correspondents, more things arise to discuss and… obviously they start to get along with each other. They talk about many things, exchange secrets and finally meet each other in person. Unfortunately, Lydia and Emily find out the truth that their delicate best friend, Cassie is being threatened by her pen-pal, Matthew and since then they declare *wars* on the boys. As the story develops, confidential things such as secret missions, false alarms, lock picking…etc have been revealed…

I like this book not because it has a good plot but the use of language is informal therefore it’s very entertaining! I don’t really like the parts where contain some swear-words and insulting phrases.

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