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Ferret Island
By Jennings, Richard W.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-61880-632-4
- Publisher
- Lorraine Houghton
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2007
Gr 4-6 Most kids would be less than pleased to find themselves trapped on an island in the Mississippi with a race of dog-sized, carnivorous ferrets. Fourteen-year-old Will Finn, however, is an extraordinary fellow. A runaway, hes washed up on the shores of a mysterious island just in time to find himself meeting a novelist with dreams of ferret-wrought destruction, a fugitive Congressman, a former child s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2007
Jennings, who should win the Mel Brooks of the Middle Grade Novel Award any day now, once again treats readers to eccentric characters, a plot consisting of coincidence piled upon coincidence, and outrageous wordplay. While in Memphis on a sightseeing tour of the Mississippi River, fourteen-year-old William Alexander Madison Lee Cooper Finn falls overboard and finds himself stranded on what he believes to be an uninhabited ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2007
While on a sightseeing tour, fourteen-year-old Will falls into the Mississippi and finds himself stranded on an island inhabited by...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
