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Summary: Mandy
Review: Mandy lives in a orphanage, and though she's relativly happy, she still dreams about what it would be like to have a place of her very own, away from the hustle and the bustle of the orphanage. She dreams that beyond the high wall that encircles the orphanage is an enchanted forest, home to unicorns and other untold wonders, as well as her very own Prince Charming, who no doubt lives in a castle and allows the creatures to come inside during the cold! Eventually her curiosity prompts her to sneak off one day and climb the wall, and once on the other side she follows a path through the forest. What she finds though is not a castle, but instead an abandoned cottage, shabby and umkempt from years of neglect. Immediatly the cottage mesmerizizes her, and she realizes that this is the very place she's been seeking! A place she can call her own! She embarks on a journey to fix the place up, sneaking out as often as she can to dust and sweep and tend to the little garden, pulling weeds and planting flowers and making it beautiful again. But how long will she be able to keep it up? Will the kindly but concerned Matron Bridie forbid her from going? Will she be able to keep it a secret? And will she ever find her Prince Charming? This charming book is perfect for anyone who's ever dreamed of having a secret place to call their own! I have read it many times and it never gets old!
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Summary: Mandy
Review: Mandy
By Julie Andrews Edwards
Reviewed by Lily Pendery
I enjoyed reading the book Mandy, by Julie Andrews Edwards, immensely. This delightful children's book is about an orphan girl named Mandy. She is longing for a real home, even though she loves the orphanage that she has lived in for many years. She is also desiring a place to call her own for once.
One day, she climbs over an old wall to explore what is on the other side. She comes across an little abandoned cottage. She takes a few "borrowed" items from the orphanage to clean it up. However, she doesn't tell anybody about it. She wants it to be hers, and no one else's. One day, she falls very sick, but she returns to her cottage. No one knows where she is, except for a mysterious admirer that she never knew she had. Mandy is a great book for children for all ages. The author does a magnificent job creating the character, Mandy and her beloved friends. If you love books about little adventures, you will adore this book!
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Summary: Manndy- An all-around great book!
Review: Mandy Mandy, by Julie Andrews Edwards, is a very well written and eventful book. It starts when Mandy, a young girl living in a nice orphanage, is satisfied with her life, but longs for a place of her own. One day, she goes venturing behind the orphanage wall and discovers a little, abandoned cottage. She decides to make it her own place and with a few "borrowed" things, she manages to turn it into a nice playhouse without anyone knowing what she was up to. However, one day, Mandy disobeys the orphanage owner and sneaks off to the cottage when she is very sick. In the cottage, she falls unconscious, and no one has a clue where she is. In her story, Mandy is very nice, but when she starts spending much of her time at the cottage, she starts to ignore her friends. She is disobedient at some times, but she is still kind and good-hearted deep down. Her friend, Sue, really wants Mandy to be safe and is always very curious. From reading this book, I learned that you should never lie, you should never disobey your parents, and that your parents usually know what is best for you. The best part of the book was when Mandy discovers the cottage. The scene when Mandy falls unconscious was very detailed and suspenseful. There was not much that I didn't like, except that Mandy was not always nice to her friends. The ending is very satisfying and is a good conclusion to the story.
I enjoyed Julie Andrews' writing style in Mandy. I never got bored while I was reading and the beginning really grabbed my attention. Mandy had a good amount of details and descriptions: not too many that I got bored, but not too little that I couldn't imagine what was happening. The vocabulary was rather easy and simple because the book was written for and is appropriate for children ages eight or nine to age twelve or thirteen. I really enjoyed the way Mandy was written. I would recommend it to girls who like adventure and enjoy good books. I would give Mandy three to four stars out of four (*** to ****). It is just an all-around great book! -KES
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Summary: heyyy all u young folks
Review: Yesterday I started and finished Ms. Edwards' book `Mandy', and I absolutely loved it. I never doubted I would enjoy it, because I tend to like anything Ms. Andrews does, but I'm pretty certain I loved this book for it's plotline and the lovely way it was written, rather than simply because I'm a fan of the author.
I loved the style in which it was written, so very descriptive of everything; the cottage, the garden, the animals Mandy met, they all seemed to be in such detail. I also loved some of the little expressions, such as
"It was a warm contentment, something like the feeling one gets when hot tea and honey slide way down into one's stomach, only ten times better."
And Ms. Andrews has all the emotions and feelings of all the characters involved exactly correct. I'm sure if I were Mandy I would feel the same way, and vice versa if I were Sue or Matron. Your heart really goes out to Mandy, especially when she is sick in the cottage, and when Bill and Anne are telling her that they want to adopt her.
Although the ending and some parts of the plot were perhaps slightly predictable, in this case that only enhances the story. It was lovely, because you had a fair idea what was going to happen, and then you were so glad when it did. Or I was anyway.
`Mandy' was a wonderful book, beautifully written, and an absolute joy to read. I'm sure there will be many children who can identify with it (whether with Mandy or Sue) or just enjoy it for the lovely style and great plot. I hope when others read it their parents are not interrupting them every five minutes, as was the case with me. That way they will have the chance to read it all in one go, as I'm sure I would have.
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, and I should like to congratulate Ms. Andrews Edwards on writing something so wonderful for her first story. Now I think I'll have to go and read `Dragon: Hound of Honour'. And I'm sure I'll read `Mandy' many times.
Personally, I think it was a very good thing that Ms. Andrews Edwards lost the bet with Jennifer. Look what we got out of it.
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Summary: Mandy
Review: I read this a while ago, and could totally connect. I have a younger sister who, when we were younger, would get into EVERYTHING. My bed, my journal, etc etc. and i had to share a room with her!
This book really gave me hope that one day i could have my own secret cottage, and fix it up.
Mandy is a 10 year old orphan who wants a place of her own. one day, she hops the mysterious wall to see whats on the other side. What she finds is a broken down abandoned cottage. this storty is about secrets, lies, friendship, love, and home improvement ;)
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Summary: One girl...One secret...One whole new life!
Review: Well, this book blew me away! i simply loved it !!!!!. Its enchanting, exciting and most of all (and this is what i personally look for in a book) it has that kind of effect that makes you want to be IN the story. It is all about a girl, 10, who lives at an orphanage. Another i liked about this story is that the orpahnage isn't like all the other orphanages in othee stories. In other stories or most of them the ophanage is always bad and gloomy. Well, thats not the case here! Anywho Mandy climbs over the "big wall" which divinds the orphanages property, for the very first time and find a cottage. She starts working on it and fixing it up. It is a WONDERFUL story and if your looking to relax and read a good book then this is the one.
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