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    <body><![CDATA[What i really liked about this was how the main character tried to figure out how her actions in the past would change her present and future.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[fun and compelling.  kmm]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What an interesting book to follow Firmin in my reading chronology.  The two books could not have been more different.  In Firmin, the writing and vocabulary were top notch, but that wasn't enough to make it a great book.  This book was simply written, but engaging, fun and delightful.  How did I fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47099696">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Miri feels like the odd-girl-out in her family since she is the middle child between two sets of twins. Robbie and Ray are 13; Nell and Nora are four. Miri is always in a dreamworld pretending magic is guiding her existence. The whole family just moved to an old, delapidated farm house out in the co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39244047">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one does not have a superbly fresh idea -- time travel and how changed past might affect the myriad of futures has been a popular theme in children's lit. and popular cultures (Back to the Future movies, anyone?)  And there is nothing exceptional at the sentence/text level to elevate this one a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41169535">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was decent, but it felt too much like a genre piece to stand out much. Miri has older twin brothers and younger twin sisters, and feels somewhat left out of her family because she is the only one who isn't paired up. When her family moves into an old house, she travels back in time and meets an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61424275">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This lovely little book took just a day to read. <br/><br/>It's about Miri, a girl stuck in a family of two sets of twins where she always feels like the odd one out.  When her family moves into an old farmhouse she discovers something that helps her travel back to 1935 where she meets a girl her ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68086437">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Miri, the 'extra' child between two sets of twins, is called back in time to help Molly in 1935.  I thought this was going to be a syrupy sweet book, but her siblings have some edge to them, and the cousins are fairly nasty bullies.<br/><br/>1. Miri learns first hand that &quot;magic is just a way...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39456304">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyable story that combines humor (Barrows, who writes the Ivy&amp;Bean series, is a really funny writer), suspense, and a bit of sci-fi/fantasy to create a unique and fun story. Miri lives in a one-in-a-million family... she has a set of twin brothers AND a set of twin sisters. She's always felt a li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43163597">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When Miri's family moves into a new house she discovers an eye glass lens and is transported back in time to 1935. Same house, very different family. In the past Molly is trapped living with relatives she doesn't like and who definitely don't like her. Miri is going to change all that though because...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29380945">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book out loud to my girls. They really enjoyed the story, I really liked the story, too. I had to edit some of the language in the book. It used the Lord's name in vain in some of the dialog, which I found very offensive. It also used words that my kids consider bad such as &quot;stupid&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74344130">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cute magical mystery for girls 2nd - 4/5th grades. Miri is the only one in her family that isn't a twin. One day she is magically sent back to 1935 where she discovers Molly, who could be her twin. Molly is living with a nasty aunt and a horrible cousin who taunts and teases her constantly. Can Miri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55954780">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My daughter loves Barrows's Ivy and Bean books, so she was happy to try this one by the same author. I'd say it's for a slightly older readership.) It is well-written, suspenseful, girl-power-y, magic but without cliched unicorns and princess crap. There is time travel, and humor, and a sense of rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29913332">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good, clean, non-threatening magic story for mid-upper elementary. The ending felt a little flat, but then again, tying up the loose ends in time travel books often leads to those weird &quot;but if it happened in the past, how come they didn't remember it that way in the first place&quot; kinds of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55395290">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has everything i would have loved reading about when i was in 3-5 grade (and now as an adult too i suppose).  Magic, time travel (especially to the 1930's), two girls on an adventure (who also wear glasses), buried treasure, a large old house with lots of rooms, a secret passageway, an att...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64128810">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Only wish the author would have refrained from using the Lord's name in vain, which was done quite a bit.  How hard it is to say, &quot;Oh my goodness&quot; instead?  There is one character who responds to it once in a way that let's you know that character finds it inappropriate.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a weird mesh of historical fiction and a time travel fantasy, but it totally works. Miri is the only one of the kids in ther family without a twin, but when she finds a lens from a pair of eyeglasses and travels to 1935, that just might change.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this with my 7 year old daughter, she loved it!  I thought it was a cute and appropriate story for a 7 year old, yet still building her vocabulary and strengthening her reading skills.  She is at the higher level for her age, and this is hard to find. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Miri is in between 2 sets of twins in her family and often feels like she doesn't belong. When she accidentally travels back in time to 1935 she meets Molly, her own twin, and the two of them have to figure out how to get them both back to the present.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good summer book for girls 7-10. Annie Barrows, of <em>The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society</em> fame actually got her start as a children's writer.  From her writing you see that she is obviously a skilled writer, she puts together a good suspenseful story. Although it was a children's story, it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59857570">more...</a>]]></body>
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