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    <body><![CDATA[I was introduced to this book over the summer at the Skokie Public Library. It made their VOYA list, so I decided to see why this book was chosen. This is not the type of book I would choose, but I am very glad I did. I absolutely loved it. I could not put it down. I read it in a day, (which is very...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75583881">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found the concept for this book intriguing, and the historical details seemed well researched.  However, The King's Fifth did not grab and hold my interest as I hoped it would.  O'Dell's use of flashbacks distracted me.  As a reader, I felt more interested in what was going to happen to Sandoval i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72716047">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting book about a young mapper maker who travels to Central America with a group of gold seekers.  The boy tells his story from jail where he writes down what he remembers of his journey and what happened.  Tension is heightened as the story alternates between the boy's trial and the reason h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57610423">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a tale about &quot;gold fever&quot;, the malady where one becomes so obsessed with obtaining gold that one loses all sense of morality and common sense. The year is 1541 and a cartographer named Estéban de Sandoval is sitting in prison awaiting trial. He is accused of not paying the ki...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33726894">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[UMM THIS BOOK IS LIKE AN OK BOOK. ILL ADD ANOTHER REVIEW LATER WHEN IM HALF WAY DONE OR WHEN IM FINISHED WITH IT. I DONT KNOW SO UNTIL LATER]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was historical fiction and based on a mans search for true wealth in dealing with his greed.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is another book from my son's reading list for history. Set in Mexico when the Spaniards were conquering Mexico. It is about a young boy who is a cartographer who gets caught up in searching for gold with some unscrupulous people. It is really a good historical novel and also very suspenseful a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28737738">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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