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#133 There is a few years difference from the last book to this one. A lot happened that LIW didn't elaborate on except to say that they had Scarlet Fever and Mary was now blind. No mention of the birth and death of Freddie. And no mention of the birth of Grace. Just that now there was baby Grace. She seems to be a toddler when the story starts. Laura and Mary are now in their early teens. And Carrie is about 9 or so.	4
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#129 I see why this is a beloved children's classic. I've always loved Laura because of the tv show but now I really get to know her better.	4
#158 Better than I remembered it. I hadn't read it in nearly 30 years so coming from a Adult perspective it a more rounded story than just a girl finding a secret garden to play in.	4
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Great reread! Now to see the movie. :D	4
Always a good read.	4
E um livro tao simples e rico que nao da para lhe encontrar qualquer defeito. Incrivel.	4
its a good book... i learned how people lives in the big woods and its amazing imaginig how hard would it be for us ( the modern generation) to try justa try to live like they did. loved this book, laura is just so cute and all the food sounded jummy!	4
I got this book for free from the Harper Collins booth at New York Comic Con. It's an incredibly cute book with illustrations on every page, and is great for kids. It's over 200 pages, so definitely a great item for a classroom or a bedtime story to be stretched over a few nights. Excellent for kids to learn.	2
This book actually gave me nightmares. I'm a person who doesn't scare easily, and this book made me afraid of zombies. My teacher gave it to me as a Christmas present, knowing I liked horror books. In retrospect, it's a bit much for a ten year old. Nearly twenty years later, I remember the book perfectly. Don't know if I'd ever read it again, but I would probably buy it for someone. The descriptions of what happens biologically are pretty accurate and it's clear that they did their research on this one.	2
That was the most ridiculous book I have ever read. It was awesome.	4
I don't get why everyone thinks this is the best picture book ever. I mean it's not bad, but it wasn't really that great either. I also don't get why everyone says it's great for adults. It's just about a boy who gets sent to his room without dinner, he imagines a fantasy world where he goes and nothing happens then he comes home to find him mom has brought dinner to his room for him	2
This book was so much fun. Probably going to make it a yearly read.	4
I wish I was a pioneer. It sounds like so much fun. Plus he bought a pig for 50 cents! I've always wanted a pig but they cost a heck of a lot more then that today. Anyways, great book. It was fun. I really enjoyed getting to read about life in the 1800's from a boys point-of-view. I was so used to just hearing about Laura's life that hearing what the boys had to do, even as a kid was really interesting.	3
This is one of the first books I remember reading myself as a kid. My mom had given me her old copies that she got for her birthday when she was little and they were all worn out for her reading them over and over so many times. Hearing about Laura's life made me wish I lived back then. Getting to wear dresses all the time, and living in cute little log cabins...it just sounds so fun, even with all the farming work involved.	4
It makes me really sad that from grade 6 until now I've always thought I hated this book because it was forced upon me by a teacher I didn't like and came with a lot of homework. I'm ready glad I gave it a second chance though because it was beautiful.	4
I'm pretty sure the end was supposed to be happy but it just made me really sad. After all the work Pa did over the year to build a house, and a barn, and dig a well, and a garden, they just get up and leave one day and leave it all behind.	4
Dinosaur books are not my thing but I kept hearing this was good so gave it a try. I couldn't put it down! A great read and I'm looking forward to the sequel.	4
Maddie and I enjoyed this book. It gave a different view of Audubon!	4
Fun book! This book is awesome!it is fun to read and look at! It showed the minignifiers perfectly. It was a bit slow, though.	4
Cute book! It was very cute, and it was a good story! I also loved the illustrations in it, they were very good.	4
need it	4
Awesome.	4
Like every other little kid who ever had access to this book, I read it a million times.	4
I loved this book so much as a child that I learned everything I could about wolves. I even wrote to David Mech when I was 12 asking how to become an animal behavioralist. I eventually gave up on the idea, but I still grew up to be a scientist. My love of wolves has never faded and I sport a howling wolf tattoo on my left shoulder that I got as soon as I turned 18.	4
I read this book as a teenager and was so impressed with its depth and complexity that wish that parents would have their children read this full version once they are old enough to understand it.	3
Read this book because I had heard a lot about it and because I loved the older adult books written by this author. It was a quick read and I do understand why this was so popular because she touched on subjects girls want to know about but dare not ask. Then I also agree with the religious views. I was baptized but my parents never went to church and we never spoke about religion. Then age 7 or 8 I started to read a children's bible and I loved it but mainly because of the scary stories like the 2 women fighting over a baby and the king decided to cut it in half. (even then I liked true crime).. But I always did believe in God and if there was one member of our family that they thought were religious they would have picked me. Alas over the last years or so I see what religion does to so many people and how it makes people kill others so on one hand I feel I have become an atheist but when I say Goddamned I still apologize silently to God. So I think there is a God inside ourselves which is good. The God that Margaret is talking to and then there is a God for the outside where people go to church or mosque to show they are believers or to feel connected. It is interesting the way American and my country's view about religion. Here if you talk about God a lot people think you are a weirdo. I am serious. Ask most Dutch people! In America it is different. I have a lot of American FB friends and there are 2 or so who always post about God which is fine by me but I find it interesting how 2 countries can differ so much.	2
Fun book. Fun TV show and fun movie.	3
Wow. I loved reading this. Especially the first 3/4th of the book was great. I thought at first hm that is quite a nice life they've build not realizing what was missing. Only thing I was not happy about is that i felt that the end was (there is not an English word for the word I was to use. afgeraffeld, meaning that she suddenly was in a hurry and just wrote something down, a bit sloppy? I wondered why the end was not told in the same relaxed tone as the rest of the book. Cannot wait for the second book although I noticed there is another main character in that book. Hope we will see Jonas again. 4.5	3
Childhood favourite! :)	4
Simple drawings set to, sometimes, witty palindromes. Fun for the academic :)	2
spoiler alert I had no idea this was so depressing. I evidently missed this one as a child.	3
A lovely book. So many great lessons in this story.	4
I think this would be a great book to give students who are more independent with their writing. I like how Fletcher describes and illustrates techniques and gives solid, kid friendly examples. I will certainly be sharing this with students as they write their memoirs!	3
Short but sweet.	4
Truly a 3.5. Good read, certainly one that will hook kids! I wish that there has been a little more closure though. It seemed to just abruptly end.	3
3.75	3
A cute book. Reluctant readers will love this one.	2
3.5 neat artwork	3
A good read. Devoured it in two hours.	4
3.5 hilarious and kids like it	2
3.5	2
3.5	2
Bwahahahaha	1
Great vocabulary!	3
3.5 Beautiful illustrations. Not in love with the text.	2
Simple but lovely.	4
What a great book! This story has it all - bullies, finding your own wings, death, science and of course jellyfish! Well written, moving and a beautiful journey through grief from a child's perspective. If you like On My Honor, walk Two Moons or Out of My Mind, you will like this book. I loved it and can't wait to share it with students.	4
This is a 3.5 book. While I liked the story and would certainly like to read others. In the series, it just didn't dazzle! However I have no qualms recommending this book to students and know that they will enjoy it!	2
I liked this story. Some provocative stuff without being too overwhelming.	4
Like Wonka meets the Westing Game!	3
Love the illustrations.	4
Silly book. Loved it.	4
great message....	4
It was cute and made the kids giggle. Should be a 3.5 rating	3
Love love love this book	4
Great imagery and vocabulary.	3
This book is fabulous! Lots of great literary devices used and also a great message!	3
Lovely art and a great telling of Fridas time in America.	3
An inspiring story for a teacher to read on International Literacy Day!	4
His one was a little disappointing. Could have been more developed....	2
I loved Mo! Great story.	4
Good read. Great for talking about bullying.	4
Great vocabulary	3
Not as good as Magic Tree House	2
Beautiful book.	4
1st book of the 2016 BookTube-A-Thon is done!! :D And of course, I still loved this :) I am so excited to see the movie adaptation tonight!! Look out for my book-to-movie adaptation review on the blog soon!!! :)	4
One of the worst kids books ever. Hey, let's teach our children guerilla tactics and looting the dead!	0
This was not a badly written book, but I am definitely not its target audience. I couldn't work up the energy to even get through the first 100 pages, that "minimum read target" before I usually give up.	0
i liked the story until the ending. not a big fan of how the author ended the book.	2
Read the YouTube version....yippie. It got such high reviews that i decided to check it out. If I wore make-up and baggy black jeans festooned with zippers and chains, poked holes in my face for jewlery,I think I might be enamored with the book; I don't so I'm not.	1
Because this was my first time ever reading the Alice books, I felt my progress and the flow of the story were impeded by constantly looking at the footnotes. On the whole, I really appreciated the extra effort the the annotator made to explain some of Carroll's inside jokes, etc.	3
Thanks to Ray Bradbury's forward, I now see that Oz and Alice in Wonderland are polar opposites. Alice is cold and snide and full of morality lessons, but Oz is warm and genuine and purposefully free of morals. Both are great books, but I only felt good after reading Oz. After growing up on the Hollywood version of the story, I was in for a treat to read the real thing--not the condensed and re-written version. Baum's version is a bit more violent and includes many more scenes involving all 4 quadrants of Oz and many more characters, such as the Queen of the field mice and the China village. There is a lot less mention of the Munchkins and a lot more for Dorothy's traveling companions. Baum also uses the many characters of the book to help solve problems and challenges that come up. Hollywood only used them as clowns. I still have a soft spot in my heart for the Munchkins and the Ruby Red slippers, but now I think I prefer the original.	3
Robert has just started at the new Lovecraft Middle School due to redistricting over the summer. None of his friends have been transferred with him, but his school bully has. At first it's easy to ignore the odd little things that happen, but eventually things get from a little odd to downright weird. His best friend is a two-headed rat, and he discovers that his science teacher is actually a gargoyle from another dimension masquerading as a human while working to take over the world! Hijinks ensue. Easy read, kind of fluffy, despite involving the Elder Gods. ;) Predictable in parts, but still enjoyable and a short read. Writing style is more like Percy Jackson than a Series of Unfortunate Events, though it's not nearly as educational.	2
Georges and his parents have to move to an apartment. He's not changing schools, but he does get to make a new friend, Safer, who lives 2 floors up and is home schooled. Safer and Georges play "spy club" together, where Safer teaches Georges how to be a spy. Some of it Georges enjoys, but some of it makes him uncomfortable. How far will he go for Safer's game? Very enjoyable, slice of life in middle school. Interesting storyline and twist on Safer's spy game, and surprise ending with the family. This book definitely kept me guessing.	2
Grimm Fairy Tales are strung together into one larger comprehensive story revolving around Hansel and Gretel. They flow pretty seamlessly and it was quite an interesting read. It starts before they are born and progresses through several stories that are not the traditional Hansel and Gretel. The author interjects occassionally, which does not detract from the story in any way. Very creative.	3
Rune, Jezebel and Wolf Jr are classmates at Master Dreadthorn's School fo Wayward Villians. They, and everyone else in the school, are there because they did something "good", so now they're studying how to be bad. Rune ends up getting in so much trouble that in order to not be kicked out of the school, he has to suceed at a "Plot". He needs his friends to help him thwart the other villians and complete his tasks in the assigned time. Pretty predictable, and the villians are not really all that villianous.	1
Very vague story about Nefertiti. Did not answer enough questions. DO NOT pair with Sphinx's Princess.	0
"Fee, Fie, Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an English Mun" kind of gives away the story. Similar in style to the movie "Hoodwinked". Enjoyable. Give to girls too young for Kiki Strike.	1
I read this book every year. It's about Sarah, doted upon by her father, who gets sent to England to boarding school. While there, her father invests all his fortune in diamond mines, contracts a fever and dies thinking everything is lost. Sarah then becomes an poor orphan until her father's friend finds her and returns her fortune.	3
Gilda is a self professed 'psychic investigator' and gets herself invited to her mother's cousin's house where she helps his daughter solve the mystery of their haunted mansion.	2

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#133 There is a few years difference from the last book to this one. A lot happened that LIW didn't elaborate on except to say that they had Scarlet Fever and Mary was now blind. No mention of the birth and death of Freddie. And no mention of the birth of Grace. Just that now there was baby Grace. She seems to be a toddler when the story starts. Laura and Mary are now in their early teens. And Carrie is about 9 or so.

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#129 I see why this is a beloved children's classic. I've always loved Laura because of the tv show but now I really get to know her better.

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#158 Better than I remembered it. I hadn't read it in nearly 30 years so coming from a Adult perspective it a more rounded story than just a girl finding a secret garden to play in.

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Great reread! Now to see the movie. :D

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Always a good read.

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E um livro tao simples e rico que nao da para lhe encontrar qualquer defeito. Incrivel.

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its a good book... i learned how people lives in the big woods and its amazing imaginig how hard would it be for us ( the modern generation) to try justa try to live like they did. loved this book, laura is just so cute and all the food sounded jummy!

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I got this book for free from the Harper Collins booth at New York Comic Con. It's an incredibly cute book with illustrations on every page, and is great for kids. It's over 200 pages, so definitely a great item for a classroom or a bedtime story to be stretched over a few nights. Excellent for kids to learn.

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This book actually gave me nightmares. I'm a person who doesn't scare easily, and this book made me afraid of zombies. My teacher gave it to me as a Christmas present, knowing I liked horror books. In retrospect, it's a bit much for a ten year old. Nearly twenty years later, I remember the book perfectly. Don't know if I'd ever read it again, but I would probably buy it for someone. The descriptions of what happens biologically are pretty accurate and it's clear that they did their research on this one.

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That was the most ridiculous book I have ever read. It was awesome.

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I don't get why everyone thinks this is the best picture book ever. I mean it's not bad, but it wasn't really that great either. I also don't get why everyone says it's great for adults. It's just about a boy who gets sent to his room without dinner, he imagines a fantasy world where he goes and nothing happens then he comes home to find him mom has brought dinner to his room for him

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This book was so much fun. Probably going to make it a yearly read.

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I wish I was a pioneer. It sounds like so much fun. Plus he bought a pig for 50 cents! I've always wanted a pig but they cost a heck of a lot more then that today. Anyways, great book. It was fun. I really enjoyed getting to read about life in the 1800's from a boys point-of-view. I was so used to just hearing about Laura's life that hearing what the boys had to do, even as a kid was really interesting.

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This is one of the first books I remember reading myself as a kid. My mom had given me her old copies that she got for her birthday when she was little and they were all worn out for her reading them over and over so many times. Hearing about Laura's life made me wish I lived back then. Getting to wear dresses all the time, and living in cute little log cabins...it just sounds so fun, even with all the farming work involved.

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It makes me really sad that from grade 6 until now I've always thought I hated this book because it was forced upon me by a teacher I didn't like and came with a lot of homework. I'm ready glad I gave it a second chance though because it was beautiful.

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I'm pretty sure the end was supposed to be happy but it just made me really sad. After all the work Pa did over the year to build a house, and a barn, and dig a well, and a garden, they just get up and leave one day and leave it all behind.

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Dinosaur books are not my thing but I kept hearing this was good so gave it a try. I couldn't put it down! A great read and I'm looking forward to the sequel.

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Maddie and I enjoyed this book. It gave a different view of Audubon!

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Fun book! This book is awesome!it is fun to read and look at! It showed the minignifiers perfectly. It was a bit slow, though.

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Cute book! It was very cute, and it was a good story! I also loved the illustrations in it, they were very good.

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need it

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Awesome.

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Like every other little kid who ever had access to this book, I read it a million times.

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I loved this book so much as a child that I learned everything I could about wolves. I even wrote to David Mech when I was 12 asking how to become an animal behavioralist. I eventually gave up on the idea, but I still grew up to be a scientist. My love of wolves has never faded and I sport a howling wolf tattoo on my left shoulder that I got as soon as I turned 18.

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I read this book as a teenager and was so impressed with its depth and complexity that wish that parents would have their children read this full version once they are old enough to understand it.

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Read this book because I had heard a lot about it and because I loved the older adult books written by this author. It was a quick read and I do understand why this was so popular because she touched on subjects girls want to know about but dare not ask. Then I also agree with the religious views. I was baptized but my parents never went to church and we never spoke about religion. Then age 7 or 8 I started to read a children's bible and I loved it but mainly because of the scary stories like the 2 women fighting over a baby and the king decided to cut it in half. (even then I liked true crime).. But I always did believe in God and if there was one member of our family that they thought were religious they would have picked me. Alas over the last years or so I see what religion does to so many people and how it makes people kill others so on one hand I feel I have become an atheist but when I say Goddamned I still apologize silently to God. So I think there is a God inside ourselves which is good. The God that Margaret is talking to and then there is a God for the outside where people go to church or mosque to show they are believers or to feel connected. It is interesting the way American and my country's view about religion. Here if you talk about God a lot people think you are a weirdo. I am serious. Ask most Dutch people! In America it is different. I have a lot of American FB friends and there are 2 or so who always post about God which is fine by me but I find it interesting how 2 countries can differ so much.

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Fun book. Fun TV show and fun movie.

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Wow. I loved reading this. Especially the first 3/4th of the book was great. I thought at first hm that is quite a nice life they've build not realizing what was missing. Only thing I was not happy about is that i felt that the end was (there is not an English word for the word I was to use. afgeraffeld, meaning that she suddenly was in a hurry and just wrote something down, a bit sloppy? I wondered why the end was not told in the same relaxed tone as the rest of the book. Cannot wait for the second book although I noticed there is another main character in that book. Hope we will see Jonas again. 4.5

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Childhood favourite! :)

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Simple drawings set to, sometimes, witty palindromes. Fun for the academic :)

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** spoiler alert ** I had no idea this was so depressing. I evidently missed this one as a child.

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A lovely book. So many great lessons in this story.

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I think this would be a great book to give students who are more independent with their writing. I like how Fletcher describes and illustrates techniques and gives solid, kid friendly examples. I will certainly be sharing this with students as they write their memoirs!

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Short but sweet.

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Truly a 3.5. Good read, certainly one that will hook kids! I wish that there has been a little more closure though. It seemed to just abruptly end.

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A cute book. Reluctant readers will love this one.

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3.5 neat artwork

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A good read. Devoured it in two hours.

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3.5 hilarious and kids like it

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Bwahahahaha

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Great vocabulary!

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3.5 Beautiful illustrations. Not in love with the text.

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Simple but lovely.

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What a great book! This story has it all - bullies, finding your own wings, death, science and of course jellyfish! Well written, moving and a beautiful journey through grief from a child's perspective. If you like On My Honor, walk Two Moons or Out of My Mind, you will like this book. I loved it and can't wait to share it with students.

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This is a 3.5 book. While I liked the story and would certainly like to read others. In the series, it just didn't dazzle! However I have no qualms recommending this book to students and know that they will enjoy it!

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I liked this story. Some provocative stuff without being too overwhelming.

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Like Wonka meets the Westing Game!

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Love the illustrations.

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Silly book. Loved it.

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great message....

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It was cute and made the kids giggle. Should be a 3.5 rating

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Love love love this book

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Great imagery and vocabulary.

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This book is fabulous! Lots of great literary devices used and also a great message!

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Lovely art and a great telling of Fridas time in America.

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An inspiring story for a teacher to read on International Literacy Day!

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His one was a little disappointing. Could have been more developed....

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I loved Mo! Great story.

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Good read. Great for talking about bullying.

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Great vocabulary

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Not as good as Magic Tree House

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Beautiful book.

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1st book of the 2016 BookTube-A-Thon is done!! :D And of course, I still loved this :) I am so excited to see the movie adaptation tonight!! Look out for my book-to-movie adaptation review on the blog soon!!! :)

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One of the worst kids books ever. Hey, let's teach our children guerilla tactics and looting the dead!

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This was not a badly written book, but I am definitely not its target audience. I couldn't work up the energy to even get through the first 100 pages, that "minimum read target" before I usually give up.

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i liked the story until the ending. not a big fan of how the author ended the book.

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Read the YouTube version....yippie. It got such high reviews that i decided to check it out. If I wore make-up and baggy black jeans festooned with zippers and chains, poked holes in my face for jewlery,I think I might be enamored with the book; I don't so I'm not.

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Because this was my first time ever reading the Alice books, I felt my progress and the flow of the story were impeded by constantly looking at the footnotes. On the whole, I really appreciated the extra effort the the annotator made to explain some of Carroll's inside jokes, etc.

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Thanks to Ray Bradbury's forward, I now see that Oz and Alice in Wonderland are polar opposites. Alice is cold and snide and full of morality lessons, but Oz is warm and genuine and purposefully free of morals. Both are great books, but I only felt good after reading Oz. After growing up on the Hollywood version of the story, I was in for a treat to read the real thing--not the condensed and re-written version. Baum's version is a bit more violent and includes many more scenes involving all 4 quadrants of Oz and many more characters, such as the Queen of the field mice and the China village. There is a lot less mention of the Munchkins and a lot more for Dorothy's traveling companions. Baum also uses the many characters of the book to help solve problems and challenges that come up. Hollywood only used them as clowns. I still have a soft spot in my heart for the Munchkins and the Ruby Red slippers, but now I think I prefer the original.

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Robert has just started at the new Lovecraft Middle School due to redistricting over the summer. None of his friends have been transferred with him, but his school bully has. At first it's easy to ignore the odd little things that happen, but eventually things get from a little odd to downright weird. His best friend is a two-headed rat, and he discovers that his science teacher is actually a gargoyle from another dimension masquerading as a human while working to take over the world! Hijinks ensue. Easy read, kind of fluffy, despite involving the Elder Gods. ;) Predictable in parts, but still enjoyable and a short read. Writing style is more like Percy Jackson than a Series of Unfortunate Events, though it's not nearly as educational.

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Georges and his parents have to move to an apartment. He's not changing schools, but he does get to make a new friend, Safer, who lives 2 floors up and is home schooled. Safer and Georges play "spy club" together, where Safer teaches Georges how to be a spy. Some of it Georges enjoys, but some of it makes him uncomfortable. How far will he go for Safer's game? Very enjoyable, slice of life in middle school. Interesting storyline and twist on Safer's spy game, and surprise ending with the family. This book definitely kept me guessing.

2

Grimm Fairy Tales are strung together into one larger comprehensive story revolving around Hansel and Gretel. They flow pretty seamlessly and it was quite an interesting read. It starts before they are born and progresses through several stories that are not the traditional Hansel and Gretel. The author interjects occassionally, which does not detract from the story in any way. Very creative.

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Rune, Jezebel and Wolf Jr are classmates at Master Dreadthorn's School fo Wayward Villians. They, and everyone else in the school, are there because they did something "good", so now they're studying how to be bad. Rune ends up getting in so much trouble that in order to not be kicked out of the school, he has to suceed at a "Plot". He needs his friends to help him thwart the other villians and complete his tasks in the assigned time. Pretty predictable, and the villians are not really all that villianous.

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Very vague story about Nefertiti. Did not answer enough questions. DO NOT pair with Sphinx's Princess.

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"Fee, Fie, Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an English Mun" kind of gives away the story. Similar in style to the movie "Hoodwinked". Enjoyable. Give to girls too young for Kiki Strike.

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I read this book every year. It's about Sarah, doted upon by her father, who gets sent to England to boarding school. While there, her father invests all his fortune in diamond mines, contracts a fever and dies thinking everything is lost. Sarah then becomes an poor orphan until her father's friend finds her and returns her fortune.

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Gilda is a self professed 'psychic investigator' and gets herself invited to her mother's cousin's house where she helps his daughter solve the mystery of their haunted mansion.

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