More wonderful Middle Grade reading...
The Marvelous
Adventures of Gwendolyn Gray, by B. A. Williamson (Jolly Fish)
This
delightful adventure crosses worlds of imagination with a singularly creative
young heroine. At times the settings reminded me of A Wrinkle in Time,
Kidnapped, Peter Pan, and The Never-Ending Story, to name a few. Humor tempers
the seriously creepy villains, and the dramatic story moves right along with
more than its share of twists and turns. Gwendolyn Gray is not only a
resourceful and sympathetic heroine, but someone I would have loved to play
with as a child. My only reservation about the book concerns the audience,
since Gwendolyn is adolescent, but the length of the book and the complexity of
the world place it more in the YA/teen niche. Regardless, I look forward to
more imagination-fueled adventures.
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