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Title: Middle School Teacher Remembers and Shudders
Review: My main thought when reading this book in the eighth grade was, "Why, O why wasn't he a mercurysmith? Might we not have been spared the remainder of the book?" It was excruciating and I would never put my own students through it, regardless of what wonderful lessons they were supposed to learn. Historical fiction is so often a mixed bag - too many lessons at the expense of literature.
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