Eleven

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Call Number: Y Fiction / Giff, Patricia
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	Y Fiction / Giff, Patricia	4-week checkout	On Shelf

When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.

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identity and relationships submitted by camelsamba on July 20, 2017, 10:23pm I got the audiobook via overdrive for my phone because it was "available now". As such, I had no preconceptions about it. I was not familiar with the author and didn't really see the cover that misleads some reviewers into expecting something else. And I didn't realize it was sometimes promoted as "a mystery."

And with no preconceptions, I enjoyed it. There was a period when I felt a sense of sinister foreboding, but it was replaced relatively quickly by a sense that a more 'ordinary' tragedy had occurred.

Questions of identity. Strong relationships. Un-ordinary family structures. Nice friendship between Sam and Caroline. Good middle grades and teen fiction.