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    <body><![CDATA[     The Thing About Georgie is a great book. When you read this book you will find out that the thing about Georgie is that he is a dwarf. He has difficulties throughout the book, that he has to cope with everyday. One thing is that at school he does not have a specially made desk like he does at h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43346594">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[J This very enjoyable story about a ten year old boy who happens to be a dwarf, 42&quot; high and not growing anymore, and the emotional turmoil he goes through when first, he loses his best friend,then has to do a school report with someone who has always been mean to him, and then finds out his mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39591608">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The thing about Georgie by Lisa Graff is about a kid with dwarfism.  Dwarfism is when your body doesn't develope fully so you are very very short no matter how old you get.  Georgie is an only child until he finds out his mother is pregnant.  He starts worrying that his parents, both musicians, will...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34992637">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Georgie is a dwarf. His life, overall, is a happy one. But then he learns that his parents are going to have another child. Georgie is overwhelmed with feeling of jealousy for his new sibling who he anticipates will be a normal child, able to do many things Georgie cannot do, including play music li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64821534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[2010 Rebecca Caudill Nominee. This one might have my vote. There were no passages so evocative with description that I was stopped in my place, forced to re-read them or passages that I felt I just had to jot down to re-read later, but this book was just good storytelling. Again, it was a book I eas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55711107">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The thing about Georgie is he is a dwarf and he must deal with the fact that some things that are simple for most people are difficult for him. Georgie has a falling out with his best friend, Andy, and he has just found out his mom is having a baby. Add to that, he is assigned to do a school project...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77435336">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love, love, LOVE this book! The &quot;favors&quot; that are directed at the reader are full of compassion and grace without being melodramatic or condescending. For a children's book, it was really a page-turner, too. There's no real suspense - no big action - just a real story about real children...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44264199">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book that was so full of surprises that I hated to put it down. It was about a boy who was born short/like a dwarf. He was only 2 feet and in 4th grade. In the book you read about his life and all the amazing things that happen to him. Why is he a midget? What happens to him? Doe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53051404">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book! I thought it was a nice story and exposed things about dwarfism that I didn't know. I am SO over Little People, Big World, but I felt like this book didn't try to shove Georgie's size down my throat like the show does. It would be easy and fun to read to a class and use f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66674802">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished this book with my class. It was good. The main character, Georgie, is a dwarf, who although he is different from everyone else in some ways, has some pretty typical fourth-grade challenges. We all really enjoyed this book. It is a good class read--kids can relate to it while at the sam...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52292033">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Would not have picked this one up except for it being on the Bluebonnet list. And wouldn't you know it ... I actually liked it. When I booktalked it to the kids I started off with them trying to reach their arm over their head to touch their ear (like the author describes in the opening chapter). Wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39414732">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a really cute book.  One of my girls picked it up from the book fair last fall because it was a Bluebonnet Award nominee.  She put it down because she thought it was boring.  So I pick it up one day at the table while eating lunch.  It's a good story about a boy who is a dwarf fitting in wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46007035">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The thing about this book is that it's a sensitive, enjoyable exploration of life as a ten year-old dwarf who's about to be a big brother.  It's also accessible and appealing to both girls and the ever elusive boy readers, and deals with emotions and social issues in a not-too-preachy or mushy way. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52303472">more...</a>]]></body>
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