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    <body><![CDATA[Any book where children occasionally get eaten by night creatures without any apologies by the author is okay in my book! Courtney is such a fantastic character. Wish I was half as badass as she is! (Though personally I am happy I have a nose. Why does she have no nose?! Why did I not even notice sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42581518">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had read the four chapters that comprise this initial volume of the adventures of Courtney Crumrin as they had originally appeared in single issues. I had found the series amusing but nothing spectacular. It's grim and fun, but shows little staying power.<br/><br/>Which is why it took me so long...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5661261">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I stumbled across this series in the comic store, where I picked up one of the later books. I liked the style so I bought the first two volumes. And they did not disappoint. This book is very dark (horrible things actually happen to people, and this is just shrugged off by those who know about it), ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45655744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here is yet another story introducing a young character to a secret magical world, but Naifeh puts forth an above-average effort in capturing the perspective of an extraordinary girl, making it more engrossing for younger readers while losing none of the wit or edge necessary to charm those older th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71909885">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A creepy graphic novel with a good mix of reality and fantasy. Courtney and her parents have just moved in with her great-uncle, the mysterious Professor Crumrin, and Courtney is having a hard time adjusting. By nature an outsider, being new makes her transition to the new town<br/>and school all t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59306803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was sucked into the story right away! Courtney's parents, living well beyond their means, jump at the chance to live rent free at Great Uncle Aloysius's creepy old mansion that happens to be in the rich area of town. Having use of the lower floors but strictly forbidden to enter his upper domain t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79133299">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was about a girl who sees herself as an outsider.  Her and her ditzy social climbing parents move into her great uncle's house so that they can live rent free (and also so her uncle can change his reputation; he wants to be perceived as harmless).  Courtney encounters all kinds of mysterious ni...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48542021">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book this summer with a very reluctant reader in the 8th grade.  At first he wasn't sure it was O.K. to call a &quot;comic&quot; a book, but by the end of the summer he not only read this book but the other two that follow in the series. <br/><br/>I read along with him and liked Courtn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42177737">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ted Nafieh paints a wonderfully gothic picture that channels the best parts of Mike Mignola's Hellboy and Emily the Strange, populating a world of creepy victorian mansions, imposing elder forrests, exotic mystical marketplaces, and fantastic creaures that live in a world on the fringe of our own. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58523778">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Courtney can be annoyingly persistent at turning everything into a bad time, but then again she is a teenager in high school. I like this series a lot, but I'm not quite sure exactly why. The characters are fairly predictable but I like the general plotline and the humor infused throughout the whole...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62739568">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241614.Polly_the_Pirates_Volume_1" title="Polly &amp; the Pirates Volume 1 by Ted Naifeh">Polly   the Pirates</a> I made it a point to track down some of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/105776.Ted_Naifeh" title="Ted Naifeh">Ted Naifeh</a>'s other series, <em>Courtney Crumrin</em>.  And I'm very, very glad I did.  While I don't know that the <em>Courtney Crumrin</em> books have <em>quite</em> managed to scale the heights that <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241614.Polly_the_Pirates_Volume_1" title="Polly &amp; the Pirates Volume 1 by Ted Naifeh">Polly   the Pirates</a> did for me, it's certainly not been for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51750522">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One part Tim Burton and another part Jill Thompson’s Scary Godmother – with a dash of Neil Gaiman -- and you have Ted Naifeh’s adorably clever, and subversively dark, series for young adults. Now that his series has been out for a couple of years, courtesy of the indie-comics publisher Oni Pre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34265086">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Courtney's move to the richy suburbs does not make her happy - especially when she sees the eerie house she has to live in and loony uncle she has to live with. And like other teenage girls I've known (myself included) she just does not seem to fit in anywhere - not with her parents, not with the ot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22264209">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ted Naifeh's Coutrney Crumrin series has quickly become one of my favorite comics on this side of the millenium. The author takes elements from very traditional folklore, those grim and dark versions of fairies, and turns them into small stories starring a young, angsty social misfit called Courtney...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69194503">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like Harry Potter tinged with a delicious sense of horror. And with a female protagonist who is an outcast at her very mundane school. A protagonist that has such a vicious sense of justice that it becomes very clear that bullies are tempting fate when they pick on the new girl in school. There are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50904107">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A deliciously creepy story of a young girl whose family moves into her great uncle's spooky house. Courtney struggles to fit in at school. As she explores the house she discovers strangle beings, and magic books in her uncle's library. Courtney is a determined and strong character. Should appeal to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45415122">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic read! More horror than magic a la Harry Potter. Courtney is an atypical young girl. She feels very detached from her world and her peers. Her parents are yuppy wannabees, always looking for the right crowd to get into but not having much luck. But when their luck hits rock bottom Courtney'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36423435">more...</a>]]></body>
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