by Amy Goldman Koss
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Cheating on a geography midterm is only the beginning. It seemed simple enough&150they were given the answers from last year's test and they used them. But Sarah and her friends got caught, and what was done without much thought leads to greater and greater consequences. Now they are facing punishment at school, tension at home, and no one is sure how or when it will end.
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 Danielle's Review, 2007-05-01
Do you think that the easy way out of a test is cheating? Well, so did these teenagers, but they quickly learned that it's not.
This fiction book is about a group of teenagers who know somebody who had a sister who took the midterms last year. His name is Jake. Jake tells one girl, Sarah, about having the answers. She decides to get the answers, memorize them, cheat, and give them to a couple others to "help" them out too. What they thought was going to be an easy "A", turned out to be nothing but problems.
One thing I liked about this book is how the teenagers realized what they did was wrong. Rob even said, "If I could redo yesterday, I'd ride down Hillhurst instead. Wouldn't see Sarah on her porch. Wouldn't swerve up her driveway. She wouldn't tell me about some kid giving her the midterm answer sheet. She wouldn't wave it in my face." One thing I didn't like about this book was the fact that they began to blame each other for cheating, like Sarah, "And Jake? Yesterday, he practically begged me to let him give me the answers." She made it sound like he made her cheat. Nobody made her. She decided by herself to cheat.
Amy Goldman Koss grew up in Michigan and now lives in California. She also wrote the books The Ashwater Experiment, which won the School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and the Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book awards, Stranger in Dadland, Strike Two, The Girls, which won the ALA Best Book for Young Adults, ALA Quick Pick (Top Ten), IRA-CBC Children's Choice, and the New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age awards, and many other books.
I recommend this book for girls or boys grades 6-7. It's not that hard to read or understand, there's also a lot of white space on the pages.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
The Cheat, 2007-04-24
The Cheat is a really Good Book about a couple of friends who find the answers to a mid-term test. Wanting a good grade on it, they cheat. Unfortunately, they get caught and have to suffer the consenquences,but this book has a good moral. I recommend this book for both boys and girls, and I hope you will like it!
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Great Book!, 2007-02-05
I recommend this book to you, no matter what type of book you're into! I'm pretty sure that you'll like it!
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
The Cheat, 2006-06-24
The book wasn't that exciting, but it was still a good book I guess.
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 Overall, An Annoying Read, 2006-05-06
The story is about eighth grade students who a cheat on a Geography midterm. Dan, Rob, and Sarah all cheat on the test. Dan and Rob get off easy however, when they say Sarah gave them the test. Sarah isn't allowed off suspension until she turns in the person who gave her the test, Jake, who's nerdy. Also in the story is Kaitie, Sarah's best friend who decided to not cheat, Ruby, Dan's ex-girlfriend, and Jake, the boy who gave Sarah the test. The book is all in the different character's points of sviews. Reading Ruby's point of view was especially annoying since she wrote like this, "I was, like, doing this, like, and he was all, whatever. As if I care." I don't know anybody who uses like that much! Some people use it occasionally, but it's the main word in Ruby's vocabulary. Also annoying was Rob's point of view. He often used sentence fragments. I'm all for using sentence fragments sparingly to create an impact, but a whole page in sentence fragments is overkill. Sarah's point of view was usually the most tolerable, unless she started writing one word on one line, one word on the next line, to make herself seem more thoughtful and poetic. It didn't work. Dan's point of view wasn't annoying writing wise, but he was a very annoying, selfish, jock character. The best pages were the ones of Kaitie and Jake. Maybe if this book had been written differently I would've enjoyed it more, but still, the plot is weak. Not much happens, and I found the ending somewhat lame. Overall, it's not the most horrible book I read, but I am still very thankful it was one of my free books at the book fair. One more note, they talk about a calculus midterm. I'm in an advance math, and I'm not even in calculus, and believe me, these characters don't seem like they'd be in advance math. I don't know any eigth graders who take calculus!!!!
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