Classic Book Reviews
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Silver Chair
C. S. Lewis (1994), 256 pages
Illustrated by Pauline Baynes
Audience: 3rd Grade - 6th Grade
Narnia is experiencing a dark time when Jill and Eustace are called there to help rescue the bewitched Prince Rilian. They set out on an adventure to the underland accompanied by Puddleglum, the faithful Marsh-wiggle. Will they be able to break the enchantment that binds Prince Rilian? This is book 4 in the Chronicles of Narnia series.
Book Series: Chronicles of Narnia
Reviewed by: msp
Date read: 9/27/2010
ISBN-10: 0060234954
ISBN-13: 9780060234959
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Get ready for an amazing journey through time that explores familiar events, as well as the unusual in a most interesting and engaging way. History comes alive with the Greeks and the Romans, on a crusade, or in battle with Napoleon. You also travel all over the world and experience what it was like then and there. A good read and the first book to receive the Newbery Award in 1922.
The book was updated by the author's son, Gerard Willem van Loon, taking the story from 'The United States Comes of Age' through 'A Turbulent Peace'. An additional revision continues the story through 'The Earth as a Global Village.' The book concludes with an animated chronology in graphic novel fashion.
Awards won: John Newbery Medal
Reviewed by: adf
Date read: 6/23/2010
ISBN-10: 0871401711
ISBN-13: 9780871401717
Three orphans are sent to live at a dancing school. Will they make it through?
Reviewed by: St. Charles Reader
Date read: 10/22/2009
ISBN-10: 0679854347
ISBN-13: 9780679854340
Thimble Summer
Elizabeth Enright (1990), 124 pages
Illustrated by Elizabeth Enright
Audience: 3rd Grade - 6th Grade
After Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble, her life becomes much more exciting. Rain comes to end the drought which had threatened their crops and animals. An orphan boy comes to their farm and becomes part of their family. Garnet and her friend get locked in the library. She gets to run the threshing machine but falls asleep at the wheel. And all summer long, she is fattening her pig for the County Fair. Read about the quiet adventures of Garnet and her 'magic' thimble on a Wisconsin farm in the 1930s
Awards won: John Newbery Medal
Reviewed by: hap
Date read: 1/28/2011
ISBN-10: 0805003061
ISBN-13: 9780805003062
Time Garden
Edward Eager (1999), 208 pages
Illustrated by N. M. Bodecker
Audience: 3rd Grade - 6th Grade
The book is about four children who go back in time and do things in history with a magic toad. This is the sequel to The Knight's Castle.
Reviewed by: St. Charles Reader
Date read: 10/27/2009
ISBN-10: 0152020756
ISBN-13: 9780152020750
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