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This book started out great then went downhill. It's a book about an accidental kidnapping, and the book begins with that. Those 30-ish pages were great, very atmospheric, very beautiful writing, but then there reached a point. I don't know what it is about kidnapping stories, but I always go into i......more

If poems had been introduced to me as a child as puzzles, maybe I would have taken to them a little more. A poem is a kind of puzzle, isn't it? Depending on the kind of poem you have to make the syllables and words conform to a preexisting format. Unless it's free verse, of course. Then all bets are......more

Cramathon book #6: complete! More like 3.5. This was really touching and sweet. Definitely snuck up on me. Also shout out to the Cramathon ladies for making the "read a book in verse" challenge bc I'm like 99% sure I never would have read this otherwise. Haaaaaaa......more

The opening pages of this children's novel "in verse" are gripping -- a first person present tense narration from the point of view of an eight year-old girl being accidentally kidnapped. I came across a copy in a box of like-new children's books dumped on the sidewalk by a neighbor, and tried the f......more

It's a very deep book talking about two girls who met after a kidnapping. I normally don't enjoy reading fast-paced books, but this is one I enjoy reading.......more