Autumn Street
by Lois Lowry

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Book Review: The best book I've ever read. Wonderfully written for all.
Summary: 5 Stars

Lowis Lowry combines humour with sensitivity and strong emotions. It ahs you laughing and crying all at once. Her carefully crafted sentences wee music to my ears, so often she creates beautiful images or lively dialogue.

Often pupils will tell me that it was the best book they ever read, and often years after they read it, it has that lasting quality that everyone loves. The wonderfully realistic characters, particularly the young Elizabeth invokes reaction in all of us, everyone remebers being as young and carefree as Elizabeth and everyone longs to share her sense of adventure just as everyone shares her guilt when she calls Charles, her young black friend, a "nigger", because her great aunts were paying him more attention than they paid her.

It is the realism of this book that makes it a winner. You can't fail to love it and in my experience no-one ever does, even the poorest of classes have loved this book, whilst my mother also adored it when I gave it to her. A real all round winner. Try it and see.

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