Title: not appropriate for ten year olds....
Review: Our family bought this book on the strength of the Newbery Medal. After reading the first twelve chapters, we stopped abruptly because the story was not appropriate for our ten and eleven year olds. The combination of a fourteen year old girl, having a crush on a seventy year old man and an evil, evil, grandmother accusing her granddaughter of murder was too much. This book may be appropriate older teens, but the story line is contrived and does not ring true. Why the book received a Newbery Medal is a mystery to us.
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