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Title: Booooooooring
Review: The Newberry medal simply does not go to very many good books (with a few amazing exceptions, like "Maniac Magee"), and I can't say that this breaks the rule at all. It's simply a dull, cliched story about a kid who has to learn how to survive on an island, and I almost fell asleep when I was forced to read it in elementary school. For the record, I actually like quite a few books assigned at school (unlike most people) but this one just left me completely cold.
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