Glaser, Mechthild The Forgotten Book, 336 pages. Feiwel and Friends, 2018. $18.
Language: PG-13 (42 swears, 0 ‘f’); Mature Content: G; Violence: G.
Emma loves Stolzenberg and not just because she is glad to
be back after following her mom’s new boyfriend around England. But now she’s back at Stolzenberg School in
the fabulous Stolzenberg Castle, with her father as headmaster. This year is going to be different. Emma is strating anew club with her best
friends Charlotte and Hannah in the old abandoned library. Cleaning it out, however, Emma finds a
mysterious book – a book that seems to control things. But someone else or more
than one someone wants to get their hands on the book and will do anything they
can to get it.
I am not sure what the author wanted to do with making this
based loosely on Pride and Prejudice, but it did not work for me. The similarities kept intruding on a story
that is jumbled enough as it is. Time
clues are lacking the most. The author
would have been much better off to leave the classics alone and just created
their own character names. I would have
rather had another book in the Book Jumper universe.
MS, HS – OPTIONAL.
Cindy, Library Teacher
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