Mindy Wise

by Marilyn Kaye

Yom Kippur services let Mindy reflect on the sins she has committed during her thirteenth year, when she was desperately anxious to get into a popular crowd at her new middle school. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380718790
• ISBN13: 9780380718795
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

The Setting is a Synagogue

Wanted to correct previous poster. Story takes place in a synagogue, otherwise known as a temple. Not in a church. The holiday is Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement.

The Atonement of Mindy Wise

I would rate this book with an eight. This book really tells the readers how hard life can get to be. And that your life can get better just like Mindy's did. I really enjoyed this book. It was not like one of those books that tell girls problems as if they were a broken nail; they were real problems that we go through ever day. It tells you that every decision that you make daily counts. Just a couple words could make a major difference in your and others lives. This book shows how a girl who did not take the short cut to growing up. Her life is just like all the rest of ours. This book is related to a lot of books that I have read dealing with problems in life and sins. The book is told by Mindy and takes place in a church where she is repenting her sins to the Jewish god. The book is telling you all of her problems, and how she deals with them. A lot of other book that I have read do the same thing (telling they're problems) but not to a church! In this book Mindy spends all of her time trying to fit in that she forgets what she used to be like. A fun loving and caring girl. Now that she is hanging out with the popular group she is a troublemaker and a cheater. When Mindy went shopping she picked out all the stuff that her friends wanted her to get and nothing that she really wanted. And than when she gets home she realizes it and hates all of the outfits.