Title: Not as good as I thought it was going to be...
Product review: I read this book for pleasure, and knowing it had won the Newberry I thought I was going to be throughly delighted with it. I was incredibly dissapointed. The novel, based on the true story of an indian girl who survives on an island alone for 18 years, was slow and tedious, and at times way too "mushy", as my brother would say. It has no rapport with young male readers, even though there are some aspects of adventure in the novel. I'm afraid I just didn't like the book at all.
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