How To Say Goodbye In Robot

Crying at the end

I am not a cryer. I am never a sobber. At the end of this book, i was balling my eyes out. I cryed when i read casper on the radio show. I felt so bad for jonah and bea. It was a wonderful book. It reminds me of the song "the one that got away." If you want heart and to feel the characters life, read this book!

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No matter how many times I read this book I still smile and cry becaue it is that good

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So sad and amazing

I couldn't put this book down! There were so many moments when i felt the emotions of characters in this story. You have to buy this book!!!!!!

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This story hit me so hard. I was crying towards the end. Reminds me of me and my bestfriend....

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Hit awfully close to home, but I loved every moment of it.

I read this book in a day. I checked it out from the school library at 8:40 AM and finished it at around 11 that night. It was fantastic, and yes, it made me cry. The strangely complex--yet at the same time, perfectly simple--relationship between Jonah and Bea was beautiful and sweet. Bea with her feeling of having lost all emotion, yet deep down knowing that she really hadn't, was easily relatable. And Jonah... I related better to him than most probably did. My brother's like Matthew, and it was haunting to read about Matthew knowing that in some alternate reality, that could be my brother. The unique circumstances of both Bea and Jonah made the story more realistic and quirky and fun and sweet and tearful than any I've read in a long time. I would say I HIGHLY recommend it.

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Beautiful Story and Great Vocab!!

This story was beautiful and touching, and sad. I loved it. And as if it wasn't perfect enough, it has great vocab. I looked up all the words I didn't know, and added them to my vocab!!

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So sad!

This book had me depressed....but I loved it!!

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Wonderful

This is a great book to read! It is so real,well, in my opinion. It is sad and funny. It is so wonderful with all the little things. The quirks of the characters are cute and funny. If you are a sucker as sensitive as me, this book will make you feel like you're riding a rollercoaster. Happy, funny, and beautiful at times, but sad and horrible( making you feel that way. The story isn't horrible in any way). So, read it! It's not a waste!

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Great book

I only have one word: UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!

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Awesome Book!!! I loved it

I picked up this book while I was browsing through the store, and once I started reading, I couldn't put it down!!! Bea's odd way of looking at the world pulled me in, and Natalie Standiford's clever writing kept me there. It was really easy to relate to the characters and their problems.I recommend that EVERYONE reads this book. You will be glad you did!

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ROBOTSSSS! :)

i thought this book was pretty good. I loved Bea and Jonah and i hated everyone else. And the book itself made me want to tell all of my friends about it after i finished it

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Loved it.

This is most definitely one of my favorite books of all time. It's really unique and wonderful. I couldn't stop reading it. Definitely not like any other book I have ever read.

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Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.com

If you are looking for something a little different for your next reading experience, pick up a copy of HOW TO SAY GOODBYE IN ROBOT by Natalie Standiford.

Bea is used to moving around. Her father, a college professor, is always on the lookout for new challenges, so they have moved from one college town to another over the years. This move is a bit more unsettling since it's Bea's senior year, and for some unknown reason, her mother is acting strange.

After basically deciding to just coast through this final year of high school and just bide her time until she can head off to college on her own, Bea is pleasantly surprised when she actually makes a few friends. One of the most interesting people is someone everyone calls Ghost Boy. His name is Jonah, but since elementary school his quiet manner and pale complexion have made him the target of ridicule.

A friendship begins to develop between Bea and Jonah when he leaves her a note suggesting that she tune in to a late night radio talk show called Night Lights. As Bea listens to the odd characters who call in every night, she imagines Jonah in his darkened room listening, too. They find they have more and more in common and both feel comfortable when they are together.

As they grow closer, Jonah confides in Bea and tells her about his twin brother, killed years before in a car accident along with their mother. He is convinced that Matthew is really still alive and asks Bea's help in the search to find him.

There are many unique twists and turns to keep readers interested. Both Bea and Jonah have parent issues. Bea's mother's behavior is increasingly bizarre, which both annoys and worries Bea. Jonah has lived with his unemotional father all these years, but now emotions are running on high as Jonah questions the truth about his long-lost twin. Scattered throughout the narrative are glimpses into the Night Lights radio program in the form of dialogue sections highlighting the callers' comments and questions.

Overall, HOW TO SAY GOODBYE IN ROBOT is a captivating book just unique enough to make it stand apart from the usual adventure, drinking/sex party, vampire romance books that seem to be filling the YA shelves of late. This book is a worthy addition to any library, classroom, or personal collection.

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This book.

this book has an amazing plot & amazing characters. there is NO way you can begin to read this book & put it down. It has it's romance, it has the family issues, the adventures, everything. This book is probably my number one book. i suggest that every teenage girl should read this book.

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Icelandic hairdressers are the happiest people in the world. Unfortunately for Beatrice Szabo, no one knows their secret. And Bea isn't even a hairdresser, let alone living in Iceland in How to Say Goodbye in Robot (2009) by Natalie Standiford.

Bea is used to moving a lot thanks to her father's professional wanderlust. But moving constantly is pretty easy once you stop getting attached to things like houses and gerbils. Finding herself in the familiar position of new girl in town (Baltimore this time) is nothing to worry about, especially since Bea knows it will only be a year before college when she can finally be alone.

It's much worse watching her mother's slow, embarrassing, breakdown and listening to her constant accusations that Bea is a hard-hearted robot.

Robot girls still have to go to high school where the alphabet conspires to seat Bea next to Jonah Tate--known to most everyone as Ghost Boy. A loner since the third grade, Jonah lives his life apart from the usual bustle and flow of his small private high school's social circle.

Neither Jonah nor Bea are looking very hard for a new friend. Still they somehow manage to find each other through the unlikely common ground of a late night radio talk show featuring a quirky cast of regular "Night Light" callers. It isn't a traditional friendship or the usual romance, but it's definitely love.

The more Bea learns about Jonah and his tragic, lonely world the more Bea knows they need each other; that scary as it seems their friendship might finally be showing her how to be a real girl instead of a robot. But will one former robot be enough to make Ghost Boy into a solid Jonah? Do robots and ghosts even speak the same language?

Bea's narration is a sharp-witted look at high school from an outsider's perspective, but also something more. This book offers an authentic look at a type of friendshipnot often seen in young adult novels. There is a theory that in every relationship there is one person who loves a bit more--one partner who loves a little stronger. Standiford examines that kind of relationship in How to Say Goodbye in Robot.

Despite the seriousness of the core plot, this story is charming and surreal even at its grittiest moments. Like the Night Lights, Standiford creates a world here between waking and sleep where--if you believe hard enough--magic might be real and anything could be possible.

How to Say Goodbye in Robot is a beautifully written book. Standiford paints Bea's simultaneously stifling and fantastical world with beauty and style deserving of its charming flap copy and enchanting cover.

Possible Pairings: The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd, The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron, Graceling by Kristin Cashore,The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart, Fly on the Wall by E. Lockhart

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Thisbook definetly made me cry!!!! It was sucha success and it was such an influence on how to love odd people. This story was captivating and entreging. I cry every timeiread it.and i've read it alot! If you dont get this book, your misding out on a world of a beautifully written bitter sweet story... BUY IT!!!!!!!!

How many

I would like to buy this book, butni would like to know how many pages are there

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