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This is probably the wrong forum, but I wasn't sure if it belonged in Living Books, so I'm posting here. Sorry if I guessed wrong!
Has anybody read The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli? Nate picked it up yesterday at Border's and it seemed like a good book from my brief look at the jacket, but hoped someone who has read it could tell me what they thought. I didn't buy it, but told him I'd look into it and put it on our list.
I guess I'm most concerned at how the Church is portrayed?
thanks!
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It's a great story! 
One of the main characters is a holy monk. No worries!
Beautiful picture of the middle ages.
Worth buying for sure.
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We loved it -- beautiful story! I wish we owned it.
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We own it and love it!! We read it last year with our Middle Ages studies.
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Ditto!
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Thank you all for the quick replies! We'll be getting it soon!
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Loved it! I just read it aloud to my 9yo last month and it was terrific!
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Beautiful...
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This was my first homeschool read aloud for DD#2; s[ecifically for her, just the 2 of us. We read it on vacation.
Bittersweet with DD#2's 18th birthday next week!
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I ditto what everyone else says 
....and, you DID post your question in the right place! 
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This book is a priority read! One of my very favorites. If Mama hasn't read it, she is really missing something!
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We just read this book also this year. It began a Marguerite D'Angeli search at the library. We are currently (and have been for awhile) reading aloud
The Black Fox of Lorne.
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I'm bumping this up.... we just read this as a book on tape with Roger Rees as the narrator. It was fabulous! We all loved it.
We are also on a Marguerite de Angeli kick right now.
So far we've read Thee, Hannah, Henner's Lydia and The Skippack School.
Thumbs up for all of them!
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SeaStar wrote:
So far we've read Thee, Hannah, Henner's Lydia and The Skippack School.
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Black Fox of Lorne is great, too!
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I was pleasantly surprised at this, too...found it at a library sale, looked interesting, then saw it on the Ambleside booklist as well.
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