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Title: A Worthy Newbery But Not the Best of Them
Review: Right off the top I want to say that you can never really go wrong with a Newbery Award winner. I've read nearly all of them and I've never been disappointed, even as I head into the second half of my fourth decade. Any book that's good enough for your children should be good enough for you too.That being said, this is not one of my favorites among the Newbery's. Kadohata is excellent at convincingly telling this story from the point of view of a young child and this story of Japanese-Americans struggling to get by in the deep South with a very ill child is a good one; however, I felt very much like I knew where this story was going and I occasionally felt my emotions were being manipulated by the author. I wept the required tears but I didn't feel satisfied.Still, I'm fond of the occasional tear-jerker and, if you are too, then this book is a good place to go.
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