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Title: I hated this book as a child.
Review: If your child loved A Bridge to Terebithia, he'll adore this book. If he hated it, he'll hate this one, too.As a child, I knew that death and dying were a part of life and that children died, too. But that doesn't mean I wanted to read about it.Think of My Girl, but with two boys. It is the type of book an adult thinks a child would like rather than one a child actually does like.Note the reviews of the class of children who had it read aloud to them in class. Almost none even understood what it was about. Most mention disliking the part about the death, but there are few mentions (beyond a vague teacher-pleasing "it was a good book") of things they actually LIKED in it.Read it when you're a teen or older, and you'll love it. Read it as a young child, and you'll probably hate it, too.
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