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    <body><![CDATA[   I think that this book was kinda boring in the beginning and then later on in the book it got better. I never liked fantasy both this book really changed my mind. The plot included a girl named Kirby thats gets a gift of dance when she did ballet dance move that she can't do yet and she brakes he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57547951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was full of magic which by the way matches the name that it was given. I enjoyed reading this book because it was very magical and i could relate to it! this book was mostly about a family with divorced parents and kids called Kirby, Nancy, and Brendon. During these family's life they are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55798295">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of the most boring paranormal books I've every read. It was SO boring. There could have been so much more done. It was a wonderful concept, but Lois Duncan went nowhere with it. There could have been someone trying to get them because of their gifts, or some more contact with the late g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57945147">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[All I can say is that Lois has had her day, and I am glad to be finally finished with this little project of mine.  There is nothing wrong with Lois Duncan, and she has written a few really good books.  Duncan had phenomenal success at a time when not that many books for teens were being published. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27169842">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written by the best selling author of I Know What You Did Last Summer, Lois Duncan, A Gift of Magic is another one of her works. A Gift of Magic is written in third person telling the story of Nancy and her two siblings Kirby and Brendon. Before Kirby, Nancy and Brendon where born, their grandmother...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19744482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[WEll... first of all, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I thought that it was a little bit short, but the author was very descriptive, and the plot was very interesting. I loved how developed the personnalities of the characters were. Nancy was very serious all of the time, Kirby was always zo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45628178">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This wasn't one of my favorite Lois Duncan books, but it certainly did have points that encouraged me to stop on jot down my thoughts. The quote that stood out for me the most was, &quot;...when someone dies, they die in pieces, not all at once.&quot; I do not believe that when the main character, N...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23556653">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the story, Nancy, her sister Kriby, and their brother Brandon all have special gifts. Nancy has ESP, Kirby has the gift of dance, and Brendon is a great musician(although he doesnt incorporate it much into his life). Nancys parents are divorced and she's going through a lot. From her mom moving o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56056789">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember discovering this book after I'd already read a number of Duncan's books, and believed it was her first book.  Telepathy was the main paranormal element here, which felt almost commonplace after some of her other paranormal books.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is one of the few lois duncan books i didn't read as a younger me. i really liked her books as a pre-teen/young teenager, but this one wasn't stellar...in that it didn't have anything very scary of strange. but duncan is a good writer. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a story about a family whose grandmother gave her grandchildren &quot;gifts&quot;--Kirby got the gift of dance, Brendon got the gift of music, and Nancy got something else that she's not sure what it is.  She doesn't know much about ESP, but when she reads up about it and realizes it describ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9010780">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was yet another mystery story by the wonderful Lois Duncan. Although I have to admit, it wasn't scary at all. In fact  thought that this is her most boring story that she ever wrote. I thought of dropping it and moving on to another book. But then, I remembered another book I had erad for summe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35272836">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book in the Downtown branch of the Portland Public Library.  The DOWNTOWN branch.  I might have been in fifth or sixth grade.  This book was so phenomenal and exciting (to my little pre-teen self) that I think I read everything Lois Duncan ever wrote.  Maybe.  Anyway, through middle sch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29545458">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was very interesting. It taught the very valuable lesson of trust, understanding yourself, and control of your feelings (or at least that's what I got out of it). During the book a young teenage girl goes on a journey of discovery. she tries to find out who she is by traveling to the past,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14800261">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a good fantasy/coming of age book.  My husband had read this as a kid and recently brought it home from the library for our kids and I to read.  I liked the tense the author chose of telling her three main characters thoughts and viewpoints.  It also brought up interesting moral  questions ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27527281">more...</a>]]></body>
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