Doing Time Online

by Jan Siebold

Book Overview

2004-2005 Maude Hart Lovelace Book Award Master List
2004-2005 Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award Reading List
2004 Maryland Children's Book Award Master List
2003-2004 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Master List
2004-2005 Volunteer State Book Award Master List
2004-2005 Iowa Children's Choice Award Master List
2005 Sequoyah Children's Book Award Master List
2005 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807516651
• ISBN13: 9780807516652
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

doing time online is the best book I have ever read

I like this book becuse the book teaches you what you should do and what you should not do.The title of the book is Doing Time Online.But you should read this book becse it is like normal day life.There is some mystries in this book.The peoples name in the story is Michell,Trotter,and Wootie there are some more people in it but there the main.

A Hard Lesson Learned

Everyone loves a good book, but not every book is an amazing piece of work. An amazing book is Doing Time Online. This book is about learning a hard lesson. These golden pages are written by Jan Siebold. Before this book was published she had written one other book called Rope Burn. This book Doing Time Online has won four awards. To of which are the ALA Booklist and School Library Journal award. This book deserves this award. In this book, Mitchel the boy gets in trouble over the summer and has to do a program that is called `OLD' which stands for Online Discussion. Mitchel now has to talk to a senior citizen online. The name of the lady Mitchel has to talk to is Wootie Hayes. The main part of the punishment is that he has to talk to the lady every Tuesday and Thursday. In the end Mitchel starts to open his feelings to Wootie but what does she stay? I like Mitchel because he can outsmart people. He outsmarted a kid named Trotter by telling he was on tape confessing that he stole a kid's really fancy bike. The tape recorder wasn't really on nor did it have a record button. There was another time where Mitchel out smarted a lady. The lady lost her cat and he and Trotter where hiding in the bushes and they started to meow to trick the lady that her cat was there. The lady heard the meow but something bad happened. In the story the words where very easy to understand. The words where not that difficult, though they where interesting so it made it easy to read. Even the words where easy to follow the writer made the common words mind blowing, so I thought that made the book interesting. The best part of the book was that the writer used eye catching words like "I picked up a golden brown leaf. This book could be used to teach a lesson. That if you do something to another person, it can cause you pain or you can meet a new friend. This is my first time reading this book and I still remember id word used in the text. I recommend this book to teens because it shows what happens when you get in trouble with the law. This book has a little humorous side to it. I recommend this to teens but it still fun to read even though you may not be a teen.

Learning from chatting with elders

This book is an awesome book if you love to chat online and like to be on the computer. It is about a boy who gets into trouble and has to chat with this elder woman at Maple Grove nursing home. He did something that he thought was funny but it got somebody hurt in the end. This woman isn't your average sweet old lady she is very independent and very strong. She gives Wottie some advice about everything. Wottie's dad is never home because he works way far from home so he gets home late and he makes Wottie cook dinner and do his homework and then allows him to answer a trivia question every night before he gets home so he can learn to find things on his own and get more educational skills. There is a lot of setting in this book. I mean he is at school and then the police station and then home. I think that someone who loves a short and sweet mystery book then you will enjoy this book. This is who i recomend it to.

Pretty good Done-in-one-Sitting book..

When my librarian first explained to me this book, she said that this boy did something bad & had to chat with an eldrly person for 30 minutes twice a week as punishment (the plot of this story). I thought that we'd have some criminals here like in "Zach's Lie," or even "Holes." But, this wasn't that big of a misdeed. Well, yeah, it was, but... Let's just say when you're reading the book & enjoying it, this is a four-star book. When you think back to the plot, it doesn't make all thaqt sense, and you'll probably think of it as an average book.(3, 3 1/2 stars)(note: for such a short book, the character set was VERY well-developed. Even Wootie, who will only be heard by writing) The only five-star piece of writing was with Troer & the _ _ _ _ . I thought that that was very clever. Some of this has to do with the label. I AM above the suggested reading age (grades 3-5), but I think that this book should be for dudes/duettes 7-10.If you're 7-10, enjoy this book, but I'd wait 'till it comes out in paperback.