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A review by kunger129
Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire by John August
5.0
This book! I just loved it. Middle grade that doesn’t talk down to the reader is always a winner in my book, but then on top of all of that, this book has a great adventure story. I found myself wanting to just keep reading this book until I could finish it. It killed me that it took several days because of other things in my life. I cannot wait to read this book with my son, and I kept telling Jim that he needed to read it. I think we’ll buy it on audio right before the second book comes out next year.
This book is rather like The Spiderwick Chronicles if it was a troop of Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts instead of siblings. They’re ordinary kids in a rather unusual outdoors club where they also manipulate the magical properties of the world around them. There’s almost parallel dimensions where dangerous beings live out in the worlds. It hard to explain, but it’s more magical realism than true fantasy, and I loved it!
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This book is rather like The Spiderwick Chronicles if it was a troop of Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts instead of siblings. They’re ordinary kids in a rather unusual outdoors club where they also manipulate the magical properties of the world around them. There’s almost parallel dimensions where dangerous beings live out in the worlds. It hard to explain, but it’s more magical realism than true fantasy, and I loved it!
http://opinionatedbooklover.com/recent-reads-7/