The Life and Adventuers of Santa Claus

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Rating 3.75 / 5

Summary: L Frank Baum explains how Santa Claus grew up and came to overcome electric stoves and other kinds of evils.

Science Fair

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Rating: 4/5

summary: Sternabite detects a threat in the science fair, while Toby, the main character, has other problems of his own...

Dad comment: This book is medium high on the potty humor scale.  I mention this only because none of the other books blogged here have any crude humor, so this book sticks out.

The Phantom Tollboth

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rating: 4.5/5 

Summary: this guy named Milo is bored. One afternoon he goes home and finds a tollbooth. He assembles it.He gets out his old car and drives up to the tollbooth, deposits a coin that came with it and drives through.  He finds himself in the Kingdom of Knowledge, a very literal world. For example, he jumps to the island of conclusions. To quote a character, "it is better to know whether there will be weather, than to know what the weather will be."

A very interesting, humorous, and literal book. (rating by me)

Howl's Moving Castle

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rating: 3.75/5

summary: Sophie, the eldest of three daughters, is doomed to fail horribly if see seeks her fortune. She is turned into an old lady and  is forced to seek her fortune, lest her mother find her in such a state. She goes out and finds Wizard Howl, who has a bad reputation...

The Indian in the Cupboard

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rating: 4/5

Summary: a old cupboard and a unrelated key bring a unwanted plastic Indian to life. 

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