Books by Jackie French
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review 1: this book was a pretty sad book overall. the poor little boy in the book had gone through many different journeys both good and bad. he was very strong physically and mentally. i just felt sorry for this boy. this book had a few slow parts in the middle and if you have read hitle...
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review 1: This was a very interesting account of World War I from the perspective of the women who served as nurses and in other capacities to assist the Allied soldiers. It's certainly a unique perspective because I don't see a lot on World War I in historical fiction to begin with, and t...
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review 1: This book I had to read for an English assignment, and I never once actually thought that I'd enjoy it as much as I did. It was not only written beautifully, but it reveals the hard truth about Australian history in a way that readers can relate to. It includes significant charac...
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review 1: I had to study this book for school, but I probably wouldn't have read it leisurely. The introduction grabbed me with its perfectly poetic words. The anger and resentment of Nikko for his family and village was emotionally captured by Jackie French. The bond between Nikko and Th...
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review 1: Such a fantastic book!!! I was always enthralled by it. Tommy I think was a great character, as well as Aunty Love. When James and Matilda started sort of falling in love, it never worked for me. I always knew sort of that James would never be with Matilda. I just never felt anyt...
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review 1: I loooove wombats and loved Mothball the wombat's first book "Diary of a Wombat" so was happy to find out that there were now more wombat diaries. In this one, Mothball's pursuit of carrots leads her to jump aboard Santa's sleigh and travel the world on a quest to eat evey one sh...
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review 1: When my teacher said to me we were learning about Vikings I was bored. But when we started to read , I was interested. It starts on one of the Scottish Islands, where Hekja and her Ma live. Hekja struggles to fit, because her family is the poorest of the whole village. But when H...
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review 1: A carrot loving wombat from Australia accidentally accompanies Santa on Christmas Eve. What I thought: Diary of a Wombat was a huge hit with my story time kids (and me!). I'm glad to see another book about a favorite character. Wombat's perspective is great and so funny. Whatley'...
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review 1: Diary of a Wombat (2003) is a favorite in our household. I was delighted when I saw a sequel and moments later, dubious. Could they really create something as charming and sweet and laugh out loud funny as the first? Happily, the answer is yes. In this story the baby wombat meets...
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review 1: The theme of Rover by Jackie French is that you should never give up. This book taught me this because although everything that Hekja had ever known, was torn from her she still had hope and she never gave up. She didn’t give up trying to get her freedom back, and she didn’t give...
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review 1: A distinctly pedestrian tale set in Viking times. The author is fairly talented as she creates moderately realistic characters. However she lets herself down by her obsession with explaining every last little word and term by using foot notes instead of a simple glossary at the b...
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review 1: I have had a long held fascination with ancient history, particularly ancient Egyptian history, so I was looking forward to reading another fabulous jackie French book. However I found myself struggling to pick it up at first. But there was a point in the book that I went "ohhh...