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  <title><![CDATA[Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Emmy was a good girl.At least she tried very hard to be good. She did her homework without being told. She ate all her vegetables, even the slimy ones. And she never talked back to her nanny, Miss Barmy, although it was almost impossible to keep quiet, some days.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;She really was a little &lt;i&gt;too &lt;/i&gt;good. Which is why she liked to sit by the Rat. The Rat was not good at all . . .&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hilarious, inventive, and irresistably rodent-friendly, this is a fantastic first novel from acclaimed picture book author Lynne Jonell.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first picked this book up when I was browsing at the library because I loved the cover design. I loved the simplicity of Jonathan Bean's illustration and the combination of sweet Emmy and the ill-humored rat in the tree above her. The thoughtfulness of design continues inside with illustrations th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38588946">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat, by Lynne Jonell, is extremely well-written, with bathroom humor, pathos, and believable and sympathetic characters of both the human and rodent kind. <br/><br/>Emmy is a very rich, very lonely little girl.  Her parents are constantly going off on long trips a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6111871">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's easy to become jaded. Read enough children's fiction and it all begins to swim and swirl about in your head. Was that the middle grade novel about a girl who likes a boy with twinkling blue eyes or deep brown ones you just read? Did that historical fiction work involve a plucky boy working in a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4397764">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm attending a conference on childrens' literature, and this was one of the juvenile fiction offerings.  So far it's my second or third favorite out of all of the full length novel sized works.  Some elements of the book tread into cliche, but given the reading level it's extremely enjoyable.  The ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18031955">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the kind of story I would have absolutely eaten up as a kid--especially if it was read to me. My 5th grade teacher read us Roald Dahl's books and also &quot;Mrs. Frisby and The Rats of Nimh,&quot; and it was the best time of my LIFE (at least at that point). This book is sort of a combo of D...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38879145">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's impressive how Jonell manages to inform the readers of all characters' personalities, feelings, and actions without ever straying away from Emmy's perspective: readers only know what she sees, hears, and thinks.  The outlandish circumstances with all the super(magical?)-powers of the rodents ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5362348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny and creative. I've seen some people comment that they think has an old fashioned feel and should have had a Victorian setting, but I don't think that the time frame really makes a difference.There isn't tons about cell phones or the Internet here--this book could have been written as easily in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13551454">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat is the story of Emmy a lonely girl ignored by her fellow classmates. She lives in a mansion and has a pair of absentee parents and a super strict nanny, all classic elements of children's literature. The fact that she is able to talk to her class's pet rat, just...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48016218">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat is an engaging mix of Matilda (not as spunky), Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (not as scientific), and Coraline (not as dark).  It held my attention, though I found parts of the storyline not well explained.  I wasn't overly annoyed, for example, by the many i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46472402">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I need a idea for a club with my friends in school.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42807185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell<br/><br/>“Miss Barmy said that good girls didn’t care too much about being noticed—so Emmy tried not to care.”  She tries not to care that no one notices her straight A’s, her shelves of ribbons and trophies … that no one even seems...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51701449">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great great book! Even with the female main character, this book will appeal to both boys and girls alike. As a rodent lover, I thought it was great to have rodents viewed in a positive light. <br/>Emmy is a perfectly average kid with parents that own a little book store. Her parents absolutely AD...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76225620">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great great book! Even with the female main character, this book will appeal to both boys and girls alike. As a rodent lover, I thought it was great to have rodents viewed in a positive light. <br/>Emmy is a perfectly average kid with parents that own a little book store. Her parents absolut...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48311903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the begining i must say i thought it looked borring but now i realize tht you should not judje a book by its cover because it was a exellent book that i enjoyed.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Genre:  Fantasy<br/><br/>This story is about a girl, Emmy, who is neglected by her parents who are spending their inheritance from a rich uncle by traveling around the world. Emmy is left in charge with an unusual and suspicious nanny, who tries to micromanage every part of her life. Emmy becomes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69777775">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book to the boys--and Joseph got really into it and finished it by himself.  So that was a plus. I liked this book, however, I really didn't LOVE the story line or the characters.  Some of it seemed familiar, but I don't know why.  The nanny is creepy and for some reason the author has h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38192287">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is a emotional book that sounds like it has a weird story(which it does) but is exciting and jam packed with information to keep you reading. the character faces chanlengess of being rich and her parents not wanting to pay attention to her. she notices this started wehn they hired a maid. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73567094">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to like this book, but I just didn't, really.  Like other readers, I was taken in by the cover and the simplicity of the illustration/border inside.  The writing didn't keep my attention, though, and I found myself skimming through the last half just to see what the outcome would be so I co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43272045">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The cover of this book caught my eye at the Scholastic book fair at my daughter's school and I picked it up. I was not disappointed. Emmy is a girl so alone that she feels practically invisible. Even her teacher and classmates seem to forget constantly that she exists. Since coming into a large inhe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38017050">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Several months back we were visiting at my sister in laws house, I believe for a birthday party...anyway, I noticed this book and found out that my young nephew had chosen it because the pages create a flip show of sorts. I decided it looked cute, so I got it, read it and really enjoyed it. I think ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36324687">more...</a>]]></body>
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