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    <body><![CDATA[in a sentence: A story based journey with Kit Watson through the semi-dream/semi-reality experience in his family's hometown during his Grandfather's final times.<br/><br/>The story begins simply enough, with the coming home again to support a Grandfather during the loss of his Grandmother. We jou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16272044">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The heartbreakingly real world of coal mining is fused with magic, ghosts, and the power  of friendship, family, and memory.  YA]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book that tries too hard. Almond is clearly a talented writer. He skillfully uses the &quot;tools of his trade,&quot; but the end result falls far short of this writer's exceptional promise. The story (what little there is) is muddled and painfully dull. The ending feels rushed, as if his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79448847">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An amazing book about an old coal mining town and all the ancestors.  It's quite haunting as it talks about those who had died in the mines.  I highly, highly recommend it not matter what.  You don't need an interesting in coal mining or coal mining lifestyle.  This book is just amazing, it'll hold ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55304021">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Plot Summary: When Kit and his family move back to their ancestral home, the mining town of Stoneygate, he is brought into the fold of the kids from the other old families. Through playing the game of Death, he learns about life and true friendship.<br/><br/>Evaluation of Reader Appeal: This book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9222188">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great book!  Probably one of the best young adult book I've read in quite a while.  Through this book the author effectively teaches the value and importance of inclusion (within friend-circles), and of multiplying your talents--and letting them shine.  He also incorporates a theme of valuing our ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55777181">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[David Almond's mixed use of family and local history as well as fantasy provides for an interesting experience for readers. What appeals is the gritty tone of the book, how the troubles that the characters experience cast a realistic shadow over the story. Combine that with the more fantastical elem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41518003">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did not like the feel of this book at all, from the first couple pages I was already starting to feel a little anxious.  I thought the dark elements in this book were rather inappropriate for a book labeled &quot;juvenile&quot; and was concerned with where the characters might end up in the end.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19950951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very different kind of book than I expected. There is the obvious conflict of good and evil, light and dark. Yet, the story flows along so effortlessly and draws you in to the world of Kit Watson.  <br/><br/>Kit becomes a part of a group of kids in his class, led by John Askew, that spe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3379033">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is weird and creepy, but I enjoyed it a lot.  As long as I wasn't reading it by myself at night.  The story, which starts out as a story about friendship and fitting in, becomes a supernatural story about the same thing.  Try it out!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was well-written, but ultimately I found myself bored.  I could not connect with the characters and didn't understand the whole point to Askew's game in relation to the story.  I wouldn't read it again.]]></body>
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