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Task #20: Read a middle grade book that doesn’t take place in the U.S. or the UK
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By Book Riot · 90 posts · 1679 views
last updated Dec 31, 2020 02:39PM
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This did not live up to its hype. I expected a marvelous creation unlike any other, but what I found was a really long picture book with text on some pages and murky drawings on other pages. The story involves a group of people refusing to tell each other anything. If only they had told each other what they knew, there would be barely a story at all! But instead what we get is:
Tell me what that is!...more
No! You tell me what that is!
No! Tell me where you got that!
No! You tell me where you got that!
I wish I had actually read this - the audiobook turned it from what I think the real book would be (pretty amazing) to really bland. I think I missed out without the artwork.
Magical!
I was ready to be blown away by this book... but instead I was disappointed by it. I liked the time period, the pictures and even Hugo Cabret, but the rest of the book just felt like a slightly dull history lesson.
May 17, 2010
Jennifer
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it was amazing
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kiddie,
summerreading
Glad I finally picked this up off the pile of library books and read it. If you can quite call it reading? Incredibly inventive and smart, I was totally immersed in Hugo's world.
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Loved it! What a great escape!
Jul 24, 2014
Christina MOVED TO STORYGRAPH Perucci
rated it
really liked it
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simon
