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I started out reading this book so I could get a better sense of what books some of my intermediate EFL students might be able to read, and mostly viewed it as a professional task. At first it was cheesy/campy and I couldn't wait to be done with it, but somewhere around halfway in, I started to get really into the story and wanted to know what happened to Stanley (and then later, Zero, too). There's good suspense and I liked the way you see the two stories tie together, with connections revealed
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I decided to re-read this to see if it might be of interest to one or both of my kids. It's still a fun, quick, quirky read, with just the right amount of scariness in the villains and some "tall tale" charm.
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I can't believe I missed this classic. It's exactly the right sort of book- smart but accessible for young readers. Not obvious, but not overdrawn. Excellent characters, even the ones who don't need full fleshing out. This is a gem.
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"Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather..."
An inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime, punishment and redemption. ...more
An inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime, punishment and redemption. ...more
May 29, 2007
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