![]() I thought the author did an excellent job of hooking the reader right form the start and really keeping them guessing through the entire thing. ![]() " very suspenseful, great author, reading another one of her's now " - Liz, ![]() ![]() Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.It would be a good book for a literature circle. It has a fun adventure that two friends go on to try and solve the mystery. It began with a mystery about a boy who can't read but learns that he may have been kidnapped. "I thought this would be a good book for 4-5th graders. Together they set out to discover who Sam really is and where he belongs. Caroline, the new girl, who bursts into Sam’s classroom one day and warns him that she’s not there to stay, helps build a castle with him, and reads those papers. ![]() It’s wood that Sam understands, wood that he loves to shape and to build with. But to Sam, words are like spiders flexing their thin legs as they move across the page. And what about the number eleven woven into all those dreams? The papers Sam finds in the locked box in the attic may hold the answers–if only he could read them. Who is Sam, and what do his strange dreams mean? The shock of icy water as a boat crashes onto rocks feels real so does the castle high above him that is almost hidden in the mists. ![]()
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