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Summary: Mandy
Review: I am a student at Waldron Mercy Academy. (ADH)
The story takes place in a stone orphanage close to the woods. In the orphanage lives a 10-year-old girl named Mandy. Secretly Mandy's heart pounds for a family and a place to call home. One day Mandy follows her heart and travels in the woods. There in the woods she finds a cottage and a little garden. Mandy loves it so much that she dreads leaving. When she gets back to the orphanage she swore herself to secrecy. Soon Mandy falls terribly ill and is forbidden to leave the orphanage. When
no one was around Mandy sprints towards the cottage. Outside Mandy hears loud crashing thunder and is so sick she can't even move. The only person who can reach her is a secret admirer.
This book kept me reading from page 1 to end. You should defiantly read this book.
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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: Mandy
Review: I read a wonderful book called Mandy written by Julie Andrews. Mandy has an exciting and comforting plot with different kinds of joy and happiness sprinkled in each chapter. The first time I picked up Mandy, I was drawn in and I had forgotten about my surroundings and worries due to Julie Andrews descriptive words and cheeriness. I encourage all of you who enjoy sweet and kind books to read Mandy. I was intrigued by Julie Andrews writing style, characters, and touching plot.
Julie Andrews has a distinctive writing style. One example of her writing is "It was absolutely beautiful Lovely shells of every shape and size and all colors of white and pink and iridescent mother-of-pearl lined every wall and the ceiling too." The words used in Mandy are so light in touch and kind at heart. Also, I absolutely love the mood in Mandy. When I read Mandy, it seemed to make life so simple and filled with little trinkets of enjoyment and happiness along the road of life. I thoroughly enjoyed the environment Mandy lived in. Such as "On the outskirts of a pretty country village called St. Martin's Green, there stands a large, white house called St. Martin's Orphanage. It has generous tall windows and large, high-ceilinged rooms." This is why I love Julie Andrews's writing style.
Not only does Julie Andrews have a great writing style but also the characters are wonderful and alive. First, there is Mandy who is a bright, spunk, book loving 10-year-old girl who has lived at the orphanage all of her life. Sue, Mandy's roommate and friend, did not have as strong a personality as Mandy but was understanding and kind. Mrs. Bridie was the elderly woman in charge of St. Martin's since as long as Mandy can remember. Mrs. Bridie was strict and tries to aid and observe and help each child in a personal way. Last, but not least, there was Jake, the orphanage's gardener. Jake was sweet and generous but extremely protective about his ancient gardening tools and his gorgeous flowers. These are only some of the wonderful characters in Mandy.
The plot of Mandy is my favorite! I have always wanted a place to call my own where I can plant a garden of brilliant colored flowers and keep the cottage kept up. This is basically what Mandy is about. Mandy discovers a hidden, abandoned cottage deep inside the beautiful apple orchard over the "great wall" that inbounds the orphanage. The cottage is old, rickety, and filthy. Mandy uses the little money she has to buy exquisite flowers and borrows useful gardening materials from Jake. There are twists in the story that had me on the end of my seat! Mandy is an exciting and just plain sweet story about an ambitious girl who follows her dreams.
I truly enjoyed the writing style, characters, and plot in Mandy. I love Julie Andrew's distinctive writing style and the marvelous characters in Mandy. Also, I learned how wonderful life can be if you just pay attention to the little things. I would definitely recommend this book to everyone who needs a heart-warming story about how to achieve his or her dreams. I think Mandy is a wondrous role model to people of all ages.
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Summary: Spellbinding!
Review: I grew up reading Daddy Long Legs and Anne of Green Gables, and it wasn't until some time later that I accidentally stumbled onto this book. If you're a fan of those two titles, I recommend you read Mandy. She is such an interesting little girl that you will soon be caught up in her world. You'll hurt when she hurts, and you'll love when she loves. Another one of those spellbinding books you can't put down because you simply can't wait to read what happens next to this little orphan girl who has her own secret...
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Summary: Don't overlook this gem!
Review: I must have read this book 20 times if I read it once when I was younger. And now my daughter has read and loved it also. Not often mentioned amoung youth literature and yet has never left my top 3 favorites of all time. Fantastic, beautiful story. I always wished Ms. Andrews Edwards had continued Mandy's story in more books. Treat yourself or a young book lover to a great story.
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Summary: Great book
Review: this is a sweet book. i read it when i was 9 and fell instantly in love with it. mandys courage and dedication wil have the reader sympathizing with her until the end. esepically poignant scenes
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Summary: Mandy
Review: This story is about a young girl named Mandy who lived in an orphanage. She lived there as long as she could remember and had lots of friends who supported her. There was a wall behind the orphanage where no one has ever climbed over and no one knows what it's like behind it. One day, Mandy started getting curious if there was a whole new different world behind it so she climbed over the wall when no one was looking. When she got over, she found a small cottage that was deserted. Everyday she climbed over the fence and she would clean the cottage with tools that she borrowed from the orphanage. Then there was a stormy night and she fell ill and couldn't even move, but then a mysterious person rescues her and she returns back to her cottage.
I read this book because I read the summary behind the book and thought it was a good story because I like adventorous stories. This book was also recommended to me by my cousin. This was one of her favorite books and told me to read it becuase it was written by the famous Julie Edwards.
My favorite part in this story was when Mandy finds the deserted cottage and cleans it all by herself. She plants flowers and she decortates the house will shells and other things that she found in the forest, next to the cottage. Also when she gets saved by poeple who were vistiting and they care for her. The part when I didn't like was when she got very ill and no one was there to help her and no one could hear her because the storm was so loud.
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Summary: The best of everything
Review: An amazing book by an amazing author! When I picked it up,I couldn't put it down again till I've finished it. Its a book that keeps you glued to it. Makes you wonder what is going to happen next. It reminds of many different books 'summerised' into one. If you have not read it I urge you to.Its suitable for infants up to the oldest people. Read it for the amazing story if not for the sake of seeing how the amazing star wrote it.
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Summary: Read it again and again
Review: I first found this book when I was about ten years old. I read it so many times the book fell apart. When I was in my twenties I gave a copy to a young girl so she could enjoy the story as well. I now have a birthdaughter about to turn ten years old; I am sending her a copy so she can join us in this wonderful story. Thank you for such a good and heartwarming tale. I am so glad to have it back in print so new generations can enjoy it as well.
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Summary: The best book ever
Review: It was the best book I read. I could not put it down. There is a girl named Mandy that finds a little house and that house will get her in lots of troble. Mandy has to try to keep it to her self but it is harder then it looks. I would say it is wroth every dime you put in it. I have read it many times. I had a lot of my friends read it and they loved it to. One of them I had a hard time geting my book back.
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