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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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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.
Aug 11, 2012
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I wish I had read this before I saw the Scorcese film because behind the black and white illustrations of this book lurk the amazing palates of my memory of the movie. Still, the story is just as captivating as we follow the young orphan, Hugo, as he attempts to fix an automaton, the only piece of his father that he has left while keeping all the clocks in a Paris train station running. It's a story of secrets, friendship, and most of all the magic of movies and it's definitely not only for kids
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an amazing, emotional, fantastic book about paris in the 1930s with movies, magic, fear and friendship. i cried and cried at the end, it was serious.
Lovely illustrations! Brian Selznick is a genius :) I love how he combined the texts and the pictures into a whole complete story. I also love his picture descriptions of the Parisian life :) Can't wait to read the Wonderstruck!
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