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The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World
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Three stars for average.
The story is slow and the characters are inconsistent, but the sections related to lost and stolen art by the Nazis were interesting to read. I enjoyed the fictionalized (of course) stories of the young men in an art shop on Prinsengracht in Amsterdam trying to save the loss of great art the Nazis had condemned as... »
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The Knight at Dawn (Magic Tree House, No. 2)
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This book was fantastic. Jack and Annie went back to when knights were around. They walked around a castle. They fell in a moat and the knight saved them.
I learned some interesting facts. The knights wore armor when they traveled long and dangerous distances. A helmet could weigh up to 40 pounds. I learned that drawbridges crossed moats. ... »
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Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769 (The Royal Diaries)
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"I look up now into the oval mirror and see barely a trace of the mud-splattered girl tearing through the woodland on her horse, or the barefoot girl wading at Schonbrunn... I have become what Mama set out for me to be. Majestic. A Dauphine and eventually a Queen." So writes the headstrong 13-year-old Maria Antonia--future Queen of France--... »
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A Song for Summer
The first Eva Ibbotson books I ever read were her ghost stories such as Dial-A-Ghost and The Great Ghost Rescue. Her humor and sly writing caused me to sh... »
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The Samurai's Tale
This story displays a large cast. Being an ambitious young orphan, Taro hopes to follow his late father's footsteps and become a samurai. For... »
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Listening for Lions
Rachel is a girl who lives in Africa. Her parents died from influenza and a rich family decided to replace her for their dead daughter. They sent her to ... »
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