Books by Cynthia Lord
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review 1: I love Cynthia Lord's novels. She does an amazing job of dealing with issues that kids really face in a completely realistic way. Her characters always seem like real people with complex emotions and motivations. In this one, Lucy is dealing with trying to get her mostly absen...
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review 1: genre: realisticsummary: Tess and her family live on a tiny island of the coast of Maine. There are a handful of other families with children on the island. The children all attend school in a tiny schoolhouse on the island and are taught by Tess's mom. But when a few families mo...
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review 1: Somehow I missed this book when it came out. Having recently friended Cynthia Lord on FB, I kept seeing mention of it and thought I'd have to check it out. It was my good fortune to find it at the Scholastic Warehouse Book Sale. Only regret is that I didn't buy more copies, be...
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review 1: I think I may just have a new favorite children's book! This book is so cute, and all the illustrations are very colorful and fill the whole page. Additionally, the illustrations foreshadow what is going to happen at the end of the story. I also enjoyed how the author has a rhymi...