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Title: Powerful!
Review: I just read this book to my 11-year-old daughter who laughed and laughed at the corny humor (I did too) and regularly begged me to keep reading when I was ready to take a break. She loved the characters and could identify with the love/hate relationship of the siblings--which was a key theme of the book, one that brought the social issue of the 1963 bombing to a personal level. My daughter didn't cry as much as I did during the excruciating emotional recovery of the narrator after the bombing (I could hardly even read), but she did feel the full impact of the admonition in the epilogue: "You must remember that these children [the 4 actual girls who died in the bombing] were just as precious to their families as Joetta was to the Watsons or as your brothers and sisters are to you."Note: Indicating that there is a bombing in this book is not a spoiler, just as indicating that the Titanic was going to sink is not. This fictional book is based on an actual historic event.
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