Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Truly excellent YA book

I hardly need to add my thumbs-up to the other reviews, but I would like to say that it was the first book I bought with my own money. I don't think there are many books that I could whole-heartedly recommend as I do this one for girls in the YA group.Vivid, evocative of time and place, and lets you feel, hear, taste and smell the environment. Teaches so many life-lessons of loyalty, tenacity, courage and hope.Can't beat it with a stick, as they say.