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Summary: A different kind of book altogether.
Review: This is a fantastically quick read, very interesting and unique. Konigsburg is excellent at her craft. She never preaches or talks down to her young readers. No wonder her books are so timeless. This book is over 30 years old, and it still stands up. A classic in children's lit.
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Summary: This is a great book-especially if you're a witch!
Review: This is a great book, about two fifth-grade girls who have the same need. The need for a friend. Elizabeth, the narrator of the story (I, me, myself) doesn't have any friends until Jennifer comes along. Well, actually, Jennifer and Elizabeth aren't really friends---but Elizabeth carries on the job of a witch's apprentice. That's what Jennifer is-a witch! They meet on Halloween, but they only see each other again on Saturdays, when they go to the library and the park to read books on witchcraft. Their goal is to make a flying ointment, but it is here that trouble starts. This book is great, and at the end, there is a great surprise that Elizabeth realizes. This book was a 1968 Newbery Honor Book, a runner-up to From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, also by E.L. Konigsburg
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Summary: Cute and fun.
Review: This novel could be described as "Beverly Cleary plus Zilpha Keatley Snyder, with a touch of Carolyn Keene." In other words, it has friendship elements, almost-magical elements, and some mystery elements, all at the same time.This story is told in first person by Elizabeth, the new girl in town. With the perspicacity of a Ramona Quimby or a Harriet M. Welsch, she makes wonderfully droll observations about people she meets and things she does. (This makes it a little hard to believe that she's just ten years old--but the narration is so nice that this flaw is easily overlooked.) Her cleverness and wry humor fail her, however, when it comes to Jennifer, the first real friend she makes, who is unlike anyone she has ever met before. On their first meeting, Jennifer cooly reveals that she is a witch and performs a number of seemingly magical feats to prove it. Before long, she starts to train Elizabeth to be a witch, too. Yet despite all the "bonding" they do, as Jennifer prepares rituals, rules, spells and surprises for her willing friend, their relationship remains slightly stiff. I am certain that readers won't mind, at first: Jennifer is too fascinating and her ideas are too imaginative and funny for anyone to complain about any lack of warmth. Besides, anyone is better than Cynthia, who lives one floor up from Elizabeth and is exactly what Angelica Pickles of "Rugrats" will be like in a few years. Come the end, readers will have read a rollickingly good yarn sprinkled with practical lessons about friendship--so there really is nothing to mind about this novel. I recommend it for young girls who have liked "Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh.
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Summary: Jennifer and Elizabeth
Review: This story was about Elizabeth, the new girl that just moved in town. On Halloween, while Elizabeth was walking to school, she met Jennifer, a strange and weird witch. Elizabeth became Jennifer's witch apprentice. They met at the library every Saturday. Elizabeth became a journeyman (the next step to being a witch). They were trying to make a flying ointment. One day, Elizabeth gets invited to Cynthia's birthday party. Her mom makes her go to the party. She got permission from Jennifer to go. At the end, Elizabeth and Jennifer fight, but they became friends again.
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Summary: Witch in training
Review: Two young girls,Jennifer and Elizabeth,are best friends.Jennifer is a witch teaching Elizabeth how to be a witch.Elizabeth has all these nasty foods like raw onions she has to eat to be a witch.She also has to follow lots of rules like not sleeping on pillows and having to walk around her bed three times before getting in.Jennifer is a very stubborn girl.She never laughs and never smiles. Elizabeth is a social girl.They are trying to make a secret flying potion.But they don't know what ingredience they need.Will it work? I would give this book five stars rating because it's a very interesting book about two girls and their friendship.
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Summary: APPRENTICE WITCH
Review: Well, the title implies a cast of thousands, but the story really revolves around the intense relationship between two fifth grade girls, Jennifer and Elizabeth, the narrator. Black Jennifer is a loner character, while white Elizabeth is an impressionable only child, new to the neighborhood. The other folks mentioned in the prolonged title (remember The Mixed-Up Files....) don't really count as characters. Elementary girls will enjoy this cute Halloween read. END
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