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The Christmas Genie (2009)

by Dan Gutman(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1416990011 (ISBN13: 9781416990017)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

review 1: So a meteorite hits a classroom and a genie pops out. He will grant the class one wish. The class tries to democratically select a wish by having everyone write their wish on a piece of paper and putting them in a container. The teacher pulls each wish out, reads it, and then the class discuss the merits of the wish. My 12 year old was thoroughly entertained by this book, and it was fun to read to her.
review 2: When a meteorite lands inside a 5th grade classroom, the students are surprised to find a rather irreverent genie inside. In gratitude for being freed from the meteorite, the genie grants the entire class only one wish. Each student writes a wish on a notecard and the rest of the book is a lively discussion of the pros and cons of each wish. There ar... moree twenty-five wishes which, to me, seemed too many to cover but some of them raised some great ethical questions. I think Gutman had a great idea in using wishes (don't we all have a wish that we wish could be granted?) to get readers thinking about the ramifications of decisions. Overall, there wasn't much of a plot and the ending was, to some degree, predictable. less

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