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PreS-Gr 2—An unnamed boy is a loner at boarding school until an invitation leads him to a nighttime celebration and provides him with a remarkable story to tell. Although brief hand-lettered sentences and phrases appear throughout, young readers will have no difficulty following this story through the large illustrations rendered in gouache and colored pencils. An opening scene of boys chatting amiably at a long dining table while the boy eats...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Boarding school (or perhaps it's some kind of residential institution) is lonely for the solitary boy in this magical after-dark adventure. We see only one instance of his separateness from the other boys-a dining-room scene in which he eats alone-but it's enough to establish his isolation and heartache. One extraordinary night (even the glowing full moon looms larger than life through the window), he spots an invitation leaning against the terrarium that houses his pet turtle-who seems to have left the build...Log In or Sign Up to Read More