from FOREWORD magazine:
"Brian Mandabach’s ...Or Not? (Flux, 978-0-7387-1100-3) is a smartly written novel about a smart girl with smart parents who gets in trouble for being smart. Recent trouble starts when the kids in her new school’s science class cite dragons as proof that dinosaurs traveled with Noah in his ark. Conclusion: all fossils are from the Great Flood. Told through journal entries, Cassie recounts the long journey of her isolation. With many wonderfully insightful and irreverent references and discussions of literature as a guide to growing up, this is a book for middle school (and high school) stealth rebels."
OTHER REVIEWS:(click on publication title for full review)
…OR NOT? is definitely one of my favorite books read in recent memory. Cassie is such a completely real, entirely interesting, and very unique character!
-- TEEN BOOK REVIEW
Mandabach understands what goes on in . . . school so well, I can match up characters from the book to people I go to school with. And it takes a skilled author to be able to do that.
-- FLAMINGNET
Many teens will read Cassie’s story and think, “I thought I was the only one who felt this way about life!†And that by itself will give them hope as they learn to be.
--Lisa Chellman, UNDER THE COVERS
. . . beautifully written, thought-provoking . . .
-- SUSAN VANHECKE
OR NOT puts in writing the process of self-discovery every girl goes through . . .
-- BOOK DIVAS
Cassie is my hero. She is an intelligent non-conformist . . .
--Marta Morrison, TEENSREADTOO
. . . cross-over appeal to kids and adults alike.
--Melissa, POISED AT THE EDGE
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