Cassie's voice is funny, angry, sad, sarcastic, and perplexed as she struggles to find her own identity. And to find hope for the future despite all the yahoos surrounding her. You will laugh, you will weep, and you'll really enjoy this delightful and poignant novel about a kooky idealist who refuses to give up as she grows up.
--John Nichols, The Milagro Beanfield War
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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."
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…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
Hey Mandabach! What's going on? I was just thinking about you the other day. Haha I don't have internet at my house so I'll probably be on myspace every once in a while now. I think it'll do the mind some good. I'm kinda burnt out on the internet. What have you been up to?
DUDE! That sounds freaking amazinggggg =D I might actually be able to make it out there. Depends though because my father is kinda stingy about car rides to Colorado Springs lol
No, you haven't told me anything, but how hard core it was. A girl needs details. <3 Mandabach, *sigh* You've lived my dreams. In a band, check. Kick ass English teacher, check check. Going to see Green Day, Check check check.
The Bol'Weevils playing a show on roctober 9th or 10th hmmm? Would this be an all ages/18+ show? Where? Exciting exciting exciting. I haven't seen you play since Ceili's 8th grade graduation....
<---- thats a funny face!!