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Posted: March 30 2006 at 1:39pm | IP Logged Quote Mary Chris
Just wondering about these two books......anyone have an opinion?

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Artemis Fowl is a combination of fantasy and spy.   My 2 older girls (15,13) enjoy them.
Matilda Bone would be a historical fiction set in the Middle Ages, I think. She is an apprentice to a bonesetter (doctor). My dd who read the book is not home now.
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my 13 yodd has told me that AF books are adventure stories.
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Posted: March 30 2006 at 10:47pm | IP Logged Quote folklaur
Hi,

IMHO, Artemis Fowl is kind of on the violent side. There are lots of guns, shooting, weapons, etc. And Artemis is not a black/white good guy at all. He is very "grey", in that respect.

I know I read MB when my daughter did a few years back, but I don't remember it at all right now.

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Mary Chris,
I have an "opinion" of the Karen Cushman books.   

I love them...though I must add that parents should read them with the younger set. Lately I have put several children books down in disgust because of the "implications" used inside those books.

Like watching a good movie where they use a foul word here and there, I keep thinking "Did they have to go and use that and ruin an otherwise great book?"

But the history in Cushman's books are worth the reading. I have learned so much from reading them.

It might also have something to do with me having a fetish for Middle Age reading.   

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