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  <title><![CDATA[The Boxes]]></title>
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  <default_description>Annie's Uncle Marco goes on one of his mysterious trips, leaving her in charge of two sealed boxes on one condition: she must not open either one while he is away. But she is tempted...and soon she has unleashed the unspeakable. The creatures inside the box are crab-like and grotesque. And they possess a power Annie could never have imagined: the power to transmute time.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1998</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Boxes</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[William Sleator]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quirkly sci-fi fun for the middle school boy.  The protagonist is female, but I found more interest from the boys in my classes.  <br/><br/>Odd Uncle Marco, Annie's only respite from her feisty Aunt Ruth, leaves her in charge of two mysterious boxes.  &quot;Don't open them. . . and keep them safe ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45149559">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Annie’s Uncle Marco entrusts two boxes to her; like Pandora, she peeks inside. Out scurries a creepy-crawly; it reproduces, starts building, and tells Annie telepathically to open the second box, a time-altering clock.  Everything else slows down so the creatures can build faster. <br/>Unscrupulo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19877031">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a Young Reader's Choice winner, I expected more from this one.  It was ok, but somewhat predictable and not as 'thrilling' as I'd been led to expect. Interesting ideas, but clunky writing, and forgettable characters.  He could have done so much more with the concept.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as Singularity... felt like a story I've read a dozen times. My 13-year old boy liked it a lot though, and he's more of the target audience. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story line was good. The Idea was cool but the purpose and the ending.....well there is none.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was a fun and quick read, the only thing that killed me was the cliff ending]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awsome book that made me want this book to be a series.]]></body>
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    <review id="8984918">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Annie's self-absorbed friends and relatives rely on her to act as their messenger, a role she begins to resent when she realizes how seldom they take an interest in her problems. After opening THE BOXES, Annie becomes the &quot;nervous system&quot; in a symbiotic relationship between a society of in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8984918">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was probably my least favorite Sleator book. An uncle leaves precious boxes with an irresponsible child who opens them against express orders, and then that's all fine and good because the uncle was hoping that would happen and gave the warning to tempt curiosity. What the hell??]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one of my favorite books.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[another author of my childhood :-)]]></body>
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