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"Lifted" is Wendy Toliver's best book yet! I loved it! I couldn't put it down once I started reading it. She completely drew me in with the intriguing plot line and the fabulous characters. This is a great teen read.

Poppy Browne is the daughter of a single mother who also is a college professor. She has just moved her and Poppy to Texas from Boulder, Colorado and has enrolled Poppy in a private religious school. Grades are everything to her mother. (I loved this part of the plot. How often do we see parents push their children HARD to do something really well - only to have it result in negative behavior elsewhere in their child's life??).

We meet Poppy as she starts her first day in school. Poppy isn't sure what to expect and soon finds out that appearances are everything here. She also learns that there are a lot of secrets that people are hiding as well. I think Toliver did a great job portraying a smaller town and how everyone THINKS they know everything about everyone else. As they say you should never judge a book by its cover.

Poppy becomes good friends with two of the most popular girls at school. And that's when Poppy learns their secret -- they love to shoplift. Toliver deals with some serious subject matter (shoplifting and addiction) in a way that is not overbearing and obnoxious. She pulls you into the story with such conviction that I found myself wanting Poppy to be real!

I found this to be spot-on regarding Poppy's experiences in school, her relationships with friends and especially her relationship with her single mom.

While I found myself wanting more in some areas of the book overall I think this is a good, strong, character-driven book that most teens should read (and would enjoy reading). 4 stars


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Lifted Wendy Toliver Books Reviews

Paid for a new book and received an old one with stickers and coloring on the pages. This was a gift
The book itself is not bad at all. I personally just think that it is best for the age groups of maybe.... 8-14. I think if you're in that age group that you will most likely enjoy this book.
This is such a great book! It made me really remember what it was like trying to make friends and finding an identity growing up. I strongly recommend this book!
I have just finished a review of one of the best books I have ever read.
I say that I want to read books that help me understand myself- but I have recently discovered that is complete tunnel vision. I now know I like books that open a new vista into emotions and characters.
I started Lifted with an expectation that the new girl in school, Poppy, would succumb to the mindless drivel of the popular girls who wanted her for a makeover, would dump her and her annoying "looser" friend would prove to be her BGFF.
I have to confess I read an earlier draft and I already knew some plot concepts. However, as I read I forgot all about prior readings and the story exploded with newness and I was grabbed and the book wouldn't let me escape. I couldn't wait to read each page- not just to see what would happen but to laugh at descriptions and incidents and the characters talk.
This is a bright intelligent look at the meanings of Christianity and the difficulties we, as girls, have when placed into a mold. I have been and I guess I still am mad at God for things that he allowed to happen to me when I was younger. I can relate to Boppy when she swears at David and his friends on her first day at the Cafeteria. And that she had courage reinforced by the application of strawberry-kiwi lip gloss.
Throughout the book Wendy tells us information which I just love to know. Descriptions of the girls rooms, handbags shoes, lip-gloss, hair and clothes- YES, clothes. She just makes the characters come alive. I got to know them from their words but really felt I knew them from the facts of their fashion and lives.
This book and the comments reminded me of the movie "Saved" and Mandy Moore as the super Christian. That movie caused uproar in the Christian community. This book has its moments but any thinking Christian (it is possible) will see that this is not mean spirited and is the perfect book for girls wanting to be a Christian or having God back in their life.
I could name hundreds of perfect phrases but I'll just mention a few. .After describing the extreme Christian school- Wendy has the sea of students parting to pass by Boppy while Amazing Grace is played over the loudspeaker. What a metaphor.
The classic line in all of modern YA literature occurs when Poppy is trying to tell Mary Jane she isn't so bad.
"In her eyes, she was Calvary High's Hester Prynne. "You're not a bad person, Mary Jane. So you slipped up on your promise to God to wait until marriage. If He forgives people for murdering their own kids or burning down entire villages or creating ghastly computer viruses, He'll forgive you."
That is so classic a Boppy is Anna-me moment - Placing murderers and arsonists in the same category as guys who create computer viruses. PERFECT. It shows Boppy is of the computer age and has her priorities right. Hehe. I DO SO AGREE.
The bible quotes are appropriate and enlightening. This is a perfect book.
It is so much better that the girls used normal shoplifting techniques and shoved things in bags and under loose clothing and that they worked as a team. Much better to get the excitement of the moment rather than taking off tags and switching and coming back to the store to trade them back in a complete pre-meditated method.
The ending was perfect.
IT INVITES A SEQUEL!! I can see it as a movie.
The beautiful girls turn out to be her friends. REAL FRIENDS!
OH I loveeeeeed it! If I went back and described everything I laughed at and smiled at and loved I would just be re-typing Wendy's book.
Buy it, read it- you will love it.
"Lifted" is Wendy Toliver's best book yet! I loved it! I couldn't put it down once I started reading it. She completely drew me in with the intriguing plot line and the fabulous characters. This is a great teen read.

Poppy Browne is the daughter of a single mother who also is a college professor. She has just moved her and Poppy to Texas from Boulder, Colorado and has enrolled Poppy in a private religious school. Grades are everything to her mother. (I loved this part of the plot. How often do we see parents push their children HARD to do something really well - only to have it result in negative behavior elsewhere in their child's life??).

We meet Poppy as she starts her first day in school. Poppy isn't sure what to expect and soon finds out that appearances are everything here. She also learns that there are a lot of secrets that people are hiding as well. I think Toliver did a great job portraying a smaller town and how everyone THINKS they know everything about everyone else. As they say you should never judge a book by its cover.

Poppy becomes good friends with two of the most popular girls at school. And that's when Poppy learns their secret -- they love to shoplift. Toliver deals with some serious subject matter (shoplifting and addiction) in a way that is not overbearing and obnoxious. She pulls you into the story with such conviction that I found myself wanting Poppy to be real!

I found this to be spot-on regarding Poppy's experiences in school, her relationships with friends and especially her relationship with her single mom.

While I found myself wanting more in some areas of the book overall I think this is a good, strong, character-driven book that most teens should read (and would enjoy reading). 4 stars