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    <body><![CDATA[This is the tale of Leigh Botts, a school aged boy and wannabe writer, as told in a series of letters to Boyd Henshaw, the author of Leigh's favorite book. It's an interesting twist and Ms. Cleary makes it work well. It was a pleasure to read, though I didn't find the heart of the story, Leigh copin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38903070">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This cunningly-woven allegory of the Cold War's nuclear buildup is simple and gripping enough for children to understand, if a bit fleshless. Our adolescent narrator, one Leigh Botts of California (both an immediate reference to Harvard President and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/mp/p5s2.shtml">Interim Committee</a> member James Bryant Conant and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60101550">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Are You There God, It's Me Margaret&quot; for boys, well sorta. Boy this book is depressing. <br/><br/>Dear Mr. Henshaw, my errant dad stopped by for his bi-annual visit last night.<br/><br/>Dear Mr. Henshaw, I sleep in the back of a gas station on a forgotton stretch of highway.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20699112">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like to imagine the replies from Mr. Henshaw. &quot;Dear Leigh, Please stop writing to me every single day. I'm glad I impressed you, but a man has his limits. Also, you have a girl's name.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this was so good.  I'd tried to read it as a kid and got maybe halfway through--it's that thing about not liking books about boys, and I remember that I also didn't want to read about a kid whose parents were divorced, which seemed strange and unhappy to me.  But reading it now, I thought ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32209805">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a classic. It may be a little to minor for a high school student, but donâ€™t we just love books like these. Obviously this book is appropriate to anyone, therefore making it recommended to anyone who can read.<br/>	This book kept me interested cause of how it was written. Dear Mr. Hen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39648430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rereading this book, I was struck with how Cleary manages to convey her narrator's complex of feelings in the limited vocabulary and understated style of Leigh Botts, a lonely and isolated young boy.  Leigh faces several problems in the narrative--his lunch is stolen, he doesn't understand his paren...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62122359">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ When, in second grade, Leigh writes to an author to tell him how much he &quot;licked&quot; his book, he never suspects that he'll still be writing to him four years later. And he never imagines the kinds of things he'll be writing about:<br/>Dear Mr. Henshaw, I am sorry I was rude in my last lett...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56699989">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  Out of all the Beverly Cleary books this is definetly one of the best! I read this book in a half hour. It felt like I was a fly on the wall in every scene of the book. <br/>  Dear Mr. Henshaw was about Leigh, a boy in a mixed up life that just wanted someone to talk to. With his mom busy with wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65855666">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, Beverly Cleary! Say it ainâ€™t so! A dysfunctional family! A main character with divorced parents. A dad who is late with his support payments and fails to call when he says he will. A single mom who is just barely able to pay the bills and doesnâ€™t have a lot of time to spend with her son. Whe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64818006">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[1984 Newbery winner. Structured as a series of letters from a young fan to a children's book author named Mr. Henshaw.  In the first half of the book, the boy is largely forced by his mother to write the letters, and resents that.  He also resents not getting replies quickly.  Since Beverly Cleary i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54867409">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I have read this book 2 or 3 times but i will read it again. it is that good. great matter of fact/         11.31.09<br/>________________________________________________________________<br/>REVIEW: THis book when I read years ago was really an awesome book for me. I had so many connections to thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78023178">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A young boy named Leigh Botts writes letters to his favorite author Mr. Henshaw. He later starts a diary of his own because Mr. Henshaw tells him it's a good way to start writing because Leigh wants to be an author too.<br/>I was surprised this book was all letters. I thought the letters would be i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66939680">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked &quot;Dear Mr. Henshaw&quot; because the whole book is letters to an author named Mr. Henshaw and letters in a diary. The boy who wrote the letters is named Leigh. Leigh writes his first letter when he was in 2nd grade to Mr. Henshaw, admiring his book. The last letter was wrote when Leigh w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66793674">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was 10 when I read this, and I found the main character's situation so sad that I cried at several parts. Now I still see it as sad, but it is happy, too. It's about a little boy overcoming all the sh** in his life, and coming out with a pretty decent childhood. It's a sweet book which could be de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53710873">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic story that many children in today's society can really relate to with the rising divorce rate. Leigh speaks on their level, simply looking for some one to reach out to. <br/><br/><strong>&quot;Dear Mr. Henshaw&quot;</strong> is a touching story, kind of a &quot;coming-of-age&quot; tale for an elementary ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54432798">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is cleverly told through letters from Leigh Botts to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw and later through Leigh’s diary. It begins when Leigh is very young, evident by the misspellings in his letter. Very quickly, the letters show that he is in sixth grade and has an assignment to do so he ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26556596">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book.<br/><br/>Leigh Botts is a young boy living with his divorced mother in California.  He struggles with school bullies who steal his lunch, missing his dad and dog, wanting to someday be a writer, and sorrow over his parents divorce.<br/><br/>The book is really a series of letter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19359801">more...</a>]]></body>
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