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Title: Simultaneously boring and annoying
Review: This is one of the most boring books I've ever read.Fully half of the book is the heroine looking through the woods for her brain damaged little brother who wondered off and was missing.Some might find that exciting or interesting but not I.On top of that almost everyone in this book was so annoying-right on down from the pushy, loud, overbearing Aunt, to the heroine herself, to the little brother .It made it hard to relate to the characters. Plus at the end, the heroine Sara had this big philosophical soliloquy that seemed forced and out of place with her character.The only one I liked in the book was the sensible,open minded older sister Wanda.Its too bad that she wasn't written into the story a lot more.The only reason that I can figure out that this book became a Newbery award winner is that it featured a prominent character with a disability and when this book was released in 1970, that probably wasn't an overly common thing in young adult literature.
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