“My all-time favorite book. I reread this about once a year because I love it so much.
I must thank my 8th grade english teacher, Mr. Chetson, the crazy New Hampshire native with the funny accent, for bringing this book to life for me. Normally, when a teacher decides to read a book to a class, the kids usually think "naptime" and have their eyes closed before he finishes the first paragraph. And also, its usually b/c the teacher really enjoys the sound of his/her own voice. But sometimes a tale is too good and it bears a lesson too great to allow it to be ruined by the haphazard oration of adolecent kids. So my teacher read the entire novel to us, imitating the appropraite souther accents and all, and no one in my class ever shut an eye while he was reading.
This story is great. I wish everyone could have been introduced to it the way I was.”
Sharon C wrote this review Friday, May 23 2008.
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