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Title: an okay guided reading book
Review: I teach third grade and was looking for an historical fiction book for my below level readers. The book is okay. It isn't very well written and throws in historical facts, helter-skelter without much flow. My kids did seem to enjoy it but it had a lot of terminology they didn't understand and it didn't do a good job of explaining the meaning. There were also too many characters and they weren't well developed. The meanest characters in the book were named "Mr. and Mrs. Meaney." Not very original. I doubt I will use it again for guided reading.
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