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Book Review: Babe the Gallant Pig

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An action-packed, universal story of unlikely friendships.

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Book Review: The Wish in the Bottle

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Despite good use of folklore motifs, the story occasionally founders.

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Book Review: The Eyes of Kid Midas

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One of the most exciting fantasy-adventures ever.

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Book Review: Dragon Rider

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A dragon tries to find its lost ancestral home.

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Book Review: Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles, Book 1)

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One of the best of the post-Potter fantasies.

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Book Review: Lionboy

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Brilliant premise -- so-so execution.

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Book Review: Matilda

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Matilda is a genius: by age four she has read all the books in the children's section of her local library, and moved on to Dickens, Austen, and Hemingway. She can also do advanced math in her head and has a sophisticated understanding of the world. Unfortunately her crooked car-dealer father and bingo-holic mother, TV addicts both, don't appreciate her at all. In fact, they "looked upon Matilda ... as nothing more than a scab." Matilda spends most of her time reading, and the rest thinking up clever revenges on them for their atrocious behavior, such as putting superglue into her father hat brim, and swapping his hair tonic for peroxide.

Things get worse when she starts school, Crunchem Hall Primary School is run by the horrific Miss Trunchbull, "a gigantic holy terror, a fierce tyrannical monster who frightened the life out of pupils and teachers alike." Getting back at the Trunchbull will be much more difficult, and dangerous, than her parents, so Matilda's magnificent mind starts developing even more talents -- unbelievable talents!

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Book Review: Howl's Moving Castle

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Sophie is trapped in her life as the responsible eldest daughter who runs the family hat business and has nothing to look forward to. Everything changes when the evil Witch of the Waste bursts into her shop and, for mysterious reasons, turns her into an old woman. Wandering away from town she finds herself alone in the wilderness at night, and stumbles across the titular castle, owned by a wizard rumored to take the souls of young girls.

Once there she makes a deal with a captive fire demon -- if she breaks the contract between the demon and Howl, the demon will lift the spell on Sophie. There's only one problem -- no one can tell her what the contract is, or how to break it.

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Book Review: Beyond the Deepwoods: The Edge Chronicles #1

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Weird creatures and nonstop action.

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Book Review: Inkspell: Inheart Trilogy, Book 2

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Overlong but at-times exciting sequel.

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