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    <body><![CDATA[This book was horrible and so mind-numbingly boring, it hurt to read. I wonder how the author stayed awake reading this book. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the first few pages of this novel and I just couldn't get into it.  There was an albino and a train and  . . . . .  no matter how many times I tried - this book just didn't do it for me.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is sweet and touching, and it's not likely I'll ever forget it]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Fourteen-year-old Harold Kline is an albino--white from head to toe,  even his hair and his eyes that are like drops of water. His life is made  unbearable by the other kids, who call him &quot;snow&quot; or &quot;maggot,&quot; and ever since  his father died and his brother was reported missing in Vietnam, his mother has  become angry and withdrawn. And so Harold runs away, although it is a wrench to  leave Honey, the elderly dog who has been his only comfort. And where would an  albino kid on the run end up? In the circus, of course--in this case a  down-at-the-heels road show where he is sheltered by a kindly lady midget and her huge  man-beast companion and given hugs and unquestioning acceptance by the other  &quot;freaks.&quot; There he falls in love with the beautiful but duplicitous trick  horseback rider and gains self-respect and the admiration of the other circus  folks when he accomplishes the seemingly impossible feat of teaching the  elephants to play baseball. But Gypsy Magda forecasts a &quot;great harm&quot; lurking in  the future, and it has something to do with Harold's rejection of the &quot;freaks&quot;  who have sheltered him as one of their own.<p>  In this strange, moving novel, the author of sea adventures <em>The Wreckers</em> and <em>The Smugglers</em> has built a  compelling metaphor for the universal teenage fear of being declared an  outsider. With great emotional veracity, Iain Lawrence plays many intriguing  variations on the theme of alienation in a work full of fascinating characters,  marvelous scenes, and tragic surprises. (Ages 12 and older) <em>--Patty  Campbell</em></p>]]>
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