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Summary: A late discovery
Review: At 33, I would not have been attracted to this book had I not spotted the author's name under the title. Eureka! Another book by the author of "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil Franweiler" which my mother had borrowed from the library for a Children's Literature class she was teaching and which she had to return, overdue, because my sister, 11 years older than me, was enjoying it unbeknownst to us. But I digress.Elizabeth is short, unglamourous and lonely. She meets an unlikely friend in Jennifer, a mysterious girl who is eerily familiar with Shakespeare and claims to be a witch. They hit it off and Jennifer takes on Elizabeth as her apprentice witch. For Elizabeth, this means eating one unpleasant thing after another and gathering the ingredients for an ointment of flying. Things seem to go terribly wrong until Elizabeth, displaying as much genius as Jennifer, realizes that Jennifer has claimed her as a lifelong friend. There is much in this book that rings true to the present, and will continue to do so for as long as friendships exist. It reminded me of my own best friend in the fifth grade. He's a guitarist who played in one of the best rock bands from my city, and I got into computers. Our paths were quite different, but when we run into each other, we're still those boys from the fifth grade. My own kids are still far too young to appreciate this book, but I'm saving it for them.
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Summary: Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth Willam,Mekinley and me, Elizabeth
Review: I recommend this book. Elizabeth was lonely. She has no friends. All the kids go out the back door to school. Some kids go over the hill to school, and some go through the forest to school. Elizabeth goes through the woods. She looked up and saw a girl named Jennifer. Jennifer jumped out of a tree and ran so fast it didn`t look like she touched the ground. Jennifer took a book from the library. It was a spell book. It had ointments that make you fly, and that change you into an animal and that kill people. I liked the part when they told me that one of the girls was a witch. A couple of magical things happen.
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Summary: Jennifer and Elizabeth
Review: The story is about Elizabeth moving in this town where she knows no one, but one day she meets a girl named Jennifer. Jennifer says she is a witch but Elizabeth doesn't believe her. Through out the beginning of the story Elizabeth learns its true. Jennifer teaches Elizabeth to be a witch an apprentice witch. Every Saturday Elizabeth and Jennifer meet in the park to learn witchcraft. Elizabeth has to eat one thing every day a week such as an onion, or a raw hotdog. One Saturday, Jennifer and Elizabeth start to make a flying ointment, it will take them about 5 months. One day Jennifer and Elizabeth got in a fight, and Elizabeth came down with a cold. Then one gloomy afternoon Elizabeth thought that she would go and apologize. After that they were the best of friends.
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Summary: This is a great book-especially if you're a witch!
Review: This is a great book, about two fifth-grade girls who have the same need. The need for a friend. Elizabeth, the narrator of the story (I, me, myself) doesn't have any friends until Jennifer comes along. Well, actually, Jennifer and Elizabeth aren't really friends---but Elizabeth carries on the job of a witch's apprentice. That's what Jennifer is-a witch! They meet on Halloween, but they only see each other again on Saturdays, when they go to the library and the park to read books on witchcraft. Their goal is to make a flying ointment, but it is here that trouble starts. This book is great, and at the end, there is a great surprise that Elizabeth realizes. This book was a 1968 Newbery Honor Book, a runner-up to From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, also by E.L. Konigsburg
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Summary: Jennifer and Elizabeth
Review: This story was about Elizabeth, the new girl that just moved in town. On Halloween, while Elizabeth was walking to school, she met Jennifer, a strange and weird witch. Elizabeth became Jennifer's witch apprentice. They met at the library every Saturday. Elizabeth became a journeyman (the next step to being a witch). They were trying to make a flying ointment. One day, Elizabeth gets invited to Cynthia's birthday party. Her mom makes her go to the party. She got permission from Jennifer to go. At the end, Elizabeth and Jennifer fight, but they became friends again.
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