Books : The Diamond in the Window (The Hall Family Chronicles)

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- My Favorite Childhood Book
This book is truly magical. The children's quest to find and save their family is suspenseful, funny, thought-provoking, and full of imaginative detail. I have bought copies of it for all of my sisters and all of my close friends.

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- !LUFREDNOW
This book had a lasting effect on me when I read it 30 years ago. I especially liked the backwards names that Eddy kept doing. I have my name backwards on my license plate because of this book. I learned more about Thoreau and Emerson in this book than anywhere else in my readings. I recommend this to voracious readers of any age.

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- Never Boring!
When I first heard about this book I thought it was going to be horror. I was wrong,but it was just as good. If you like mystery, you'll love this.

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- A delightful book that is timeless
I first read this book as a child and it is one of just a few that I have always remembered and reread lo these 35+ years. If only Steven Spielberg could read it - it would make a wonderful movie. My daughter loves it also, though it was a little "scary" for her when she was younger (if your child does not like suspenseful books, it may be best to wait until she or he is a little older). I highly recommend this book.

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- great book, but don't buy the hardcover edition.
"The Diamond in the Window" was one of my favorite books when I was a child. In fact, I carried a vivid recollection of the story well into adulthood, and couldn't wait to buy the book for the children of my friends & family. Last Christmas, I decided to splurge on a hardcover edition for one of my favorite eleven-year-olds. I was terribly disappointed to find that the "hardcover" book for which I had just paid $18.50 was, in fact, nothing more than the $4.00 paperback glued between cheap red cardboard covers. The front and back of the paperback had been sliced off and pasted onto the new "hard" covers. Buy the paperback, and use the money you save to purchase a good copy of "The Wizard of Oz".

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