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When I saw the book cover, I thought it’s a ghost story until I read that it’s about a *painfully* shy girl, Anna Newland, who turned herself into a total recluse at 7 years old by hiding herself away in passageways and secret rooms she built in her family’s Victorian mansion.
A middle child with [...]
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I am now an official Roald Dahl fan! ‘Boy: Tales of Childhood’ is a sort of autobiography as the book covers the periodRoald Dahl was born in the South of Wales (his parents are Norwegian) and how his life changed when his father died, leaving his mother to care for 3 sisters, ‘an ancient half-sister’, [...]
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When I found this book on the library shelf, I admit that I thought it was a “flaky”, “airhead” kind of book that almost every pre-teen or teenaged girl is reading now…
I was attracted by the blurb:
“Amanda Woods is discovering that the person other people think she is and the person she really is are [...]
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One morning, Mr “Fab” Fabiano’s sixth grade class shows up to find out that he’s away but the substitute teacher is sick. Can the kids be on their own the whole day?
As the 11 – 12 year old kids debate about whether to inform the school authorities or not, they finally vote NOT to because [...]
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I stumbled upon this book at the library and couldn’t wait to start reading it since I’d watched the movie starring Danny DeVito and when I was 18.
“Matilda” is the story of a little genius girl born into the wrong family – father is a crookish (and sexist) salesman who tries to think of [...]
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Written by the same author of “Madame Doubtfire” (Mrs. Doubtfire movie starring Robin Williams), the book begins with a noisy class of pre-teen boys in the UK on their usual day of traumatising their form teacher, Mr Cartright.
This day, the teacher is reviewing their project options for the Science Fair.
Naturally, the boys all want past [...]
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One of a set of 2 books recently released by Cedar Valley Publishing, “Let’s Get Ready for Kindergarten” begins with an introduction by Mrs Good, the class teacher, who welcomes the students to a class for “children of all ages and stages of learning development”.
She encourages the reader to:
learn at their own pace,
keep reading it over [...]
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