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All teen and kid reviews for Chains

Age
12
Average rating based on 7 kid and teen reviews:
  • 57% say it's educational
  • 43% say there are positive messages
  • 29% say violence is an issue
  • 29% say there are positive role models
Teen, 17 years old
October 18, 2009
 
great book! I finished it in a day!
wow, I've never read a 300 page book in like aday before! Nor have I ever read so long striaght just like that! Chains is a great book, full of action, and hardly anything bad. the CSM review makes it sound a lot more brutal than it really is. I mean the violence is easy to miss, even a cover-to-cover reader like me can skip through it easily, its so subtle. Anyways, its a great book I highly recomend it! And believe me, it's not the kind of book you can put down once you pick it up.

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Teen, 14 years old
July 15, 2010
 
vilont but educational
This is a good read but vilont. The vilonce includes beating, death, whipping, starvashion, and talk of lose. But as well as being to vilont for young readers it does have some educational value about slavery.

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Kid, 11 years old
April 28, 2011
 
Great book but to intense for smaller kids
Great book- my teacher reccomended it, she also said it was intense- i was littarly crying by the end of it.....

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Kid, 13 years old
September 17, 2009
 
Love it!
I LOVED this book! I got it last Christmas when I was 10, read it, and loved it! I'm still searching for the sequel, Forge.

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Teen, 15 years old
April 21, 2010
 
amazing book
very good!

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Teen, 15 years old
November 10, 2011
 
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