Jackaroo

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Summary: JACKAROO- a review from a 13 year old
Review: Jackaroo is a very good book. It is about a girl named Gwyn, who is an innkeepers daugher, who has known about the stories of Jackaroo since she was a child. She doubts that they could ever exist. But when she finds Jackaroo's clothing hidden deep inside a cupboard inside her family friends' hut, she begins to wonder...
Meanwhile, things are getting worse where Gwyn lives. She has many problems. She knows a boy named Cam, who she slightly likes. He is very lazy, and finally Gwyn doesnt love him anymore. Her father makes an announcement that Gwyn will never marry. Also, the conditions in Gwyn's country is getting worse. Soldiers are preparing for a war and the Lords of the kingdom are taxing more than ever. The people are starting to steal from each other.
Somehow, Gwyn knows what she has to do. The spirit of Jackaroo comes to her, and she puts on Jackaroo's clothes and rides out to do good. But she learns that even though she can do many good things, even Jackaroo cannot right every wrong in the world. Not even Jackaroo.

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Summary: Jackaroo captures the mind and enchants the heart
Review: Voigt proves herself a gifted storyteller as she weaves this lavish tale of adventure and intrigue. Gwyn is a headstrong girl who will not allow the current of the times to sweep her into an undesired marriage to be subdued. Instead she is proud and strong, and uses these qualities in the most compassionate way possible as her imagination drinks in the stories of Jackaroo. This book is full of surprises and is told passionately. It is so vivid one wonders that this mystical realm of the Kingdom must be real...and Voigt satisfies the reader's thirst with three equally arfully written books.