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    <body><![CDATA[Story *** 2/5<br/><br/>Jason feels his life falling apart. His dad is an alcoholic, his mom is always away on business, and he just found out that his senile grandmother has passed away. Now he has to spend his vacation in Florida with his father, getting ready for her funeral and getting her hous...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54976786">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay I had a hard time with this book which was a mystery in a mystery. Jason grandma dies, he goes to Florida with his dad, his mom is too into her own self to go with them yet is concerned how to break it to Jason, her son that his dad has a problem (alcohol) yet she allows him to go on his own.Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48442459">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was recommended reading for a lecture on mysteries at my VT College Writing For Children and Young Adults program! <br/><br/>Jason has never met his grandmother, but when she passes he flies from Boston to Florida to attend the funeral with his dad and to help his dad sell her house. While th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57159681">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel had a slow start.  It didn’t pull me in until the story’s scaffolding (the discovery of the short story, and subsequent events) got underway.  I had some trouble distinguishing characters until the very end, and it felt a bit weird the way <em>Figgs and Phantoms</em> is a bit weird.  Still, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59189966">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in one day, which I rarely do, it was that good. I would have given it five stars but there were some inconsistencies with the days. Read and tell me how so much time can pass and it's only Sunday. Doesn't make sense. Otherwise, a good book that pulls you into the mystery and keeps ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39526148">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A decent mystery for younger readers. After Jason's grandmother dies, he heads to Florida with his dad to sort through her things.  An odd phone call, an old postcard, and Jason begins to suspect his grandmother has some strange, mysterious past. Dia, his bold new friend pushes him to find the answe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66463795">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When Jason's grandmother dies,he's sent down to her home in FLorida to help her father sort through her things.At first he gripes about spending the summer miles away from his best friend,doing chores,and sweating in the Florida heat,but he soon discovers a mystery surrounding his grandmother's murk...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60874465">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My first Tony Abbott book and I'm hooked. Thirteen year old, Jason travels to Florida to support his Dad when his grandma dies and leaves the house to them. Jason, finds a mysterious postcard that sends him on an adventure into Florida's glamorous and sometimes dangerous past. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to go back and re-read parts of this book at times, mainly because I was just going too fast. It is a mystery within a mystery. The main plot takes place in modern-day Florida as Jason is helping his father clean out his grandmother's house. Jason discovers an old postcard hidden away among he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30534435">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just couldn't get into this one.  It had some potential, but somewhere along the way it just fell short.  Perhaps I'm just not a Tony Abbott fan?  Could be, considering my recent reactions to two of his books.<br/><br/>Meh.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great page-turner! While parts of it felt predictable, it still had me hooked. Plot-driven. Many of the characters seemed cartoonish or two-dimensional, but fun read nonetheless.]]></body>
    
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