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Title: JOURNEY TO AN 800 NUMBER by E.L. Konigsburg ISBN: 0689826796 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12
Rating: 3
Summary: World's Best Dad!
Comment: Young Max is furious that his mother has dumped him on his camel-driving father for the summer, while she is off honeymooning with a much older husband. Barely civil to his eager father
because of his vagabond existence and his lowlife companions,
Max learns more valuable lessons on the road than he did at the fancy private school he attends.
As he makes the rounds of malls, fairs and conventions with his father, Max discovers how to identify Real people from the cons and the snobs--how to sort out the freaks from the phonies. But will he ever become comfortable with the fact that his father is just a regular guy with an usual lifestyle? He struggles to accept a broader definition of Family. A clever story which will entertain middle school readers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Enjoyable!!
Comment: Though a big fan of Konigsburgs other works (like many of the other reviewers) I thouroughly enjoyed this book (unlike those reviwers)! Maybe it's just my love of characters that made me love this book, but I was increadibly pleased. It's a very strange and out-of-the-blue plot, I'll admit, but Konigsburg, like always, manages to pull it all together into a story of friendship and love between some very different people. I'd recommend this book for just a joy-read rather than using it for any type of book project becuause the deeper meanings are buried way in there. Hope you enjoy!
Rating: 4
Summary: Where in the world did this story come from?
Comment: This book was so confusing the first time through I actually had to read it again to the get the "deeper meaning" of the text. It is a wacky and zany story about a boy who grows up with his divorced mother who marries a very rich man, and gains his stepfathers snobbish ways, and when he goes to visit his "father", a camel keeper who travels around the country scraping off a very minimal payment per "show", he is often ashamed and embarrased of his father, but as they travel from Texas to Oklahoma to Colorado to Las Vegas, they meet a number of people who help show Max (Bo), that his father is not such a bad guy, and that who he really is, is quite different from who he has been pretending to be. The confusing part for me was the constant meetings with Sabrina and her mother, Lilly, and I understood that they were con artists early on, but how did they befriend Max, and why did they always seem to be traveling the same route that he and his father were going. What the purpose of these two convention addicts were in the book, I still have not figured out. Since the book has some interesting twists, I would reccomend it for a short afternoon read. (I finished it in an hour), but it is not one of E.L. Konigsburg's best.
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Title: FATHER'S ARCANE DAUGHTER by E.L. Konigsburg ISBN: 068982680X Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E. L. Konigsburg, Kinney ISBN: 0440472016 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1985 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Dragon In The Ghetto Caper by E.L. Konigsburg ISBN: 0689823282 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Second Mrs. Giaconda by E.L. Konigsburg ISBN: 0689821212 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Altogether, One At a Time by E.L. Konigsburg, Gail Haley, Mercer Mayer, Gary Parker, Laurel Schindelman ISBN: 0689712901 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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