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This is a beyond beautiful book! Yes, it's middle grade, but please don't dismiss it for that as that would be a huge disservice to this dark, magical and deeply moving tale! Their are big themes in this book, in a way a 9-12 year old could understand them yes but that does not diminish their impact at all! It deals with loss, love, life, and death. It invoked powerful feelings in me, to the point a couple times I had to take a breather and there were several tears. For a book to get that big of a response out of me says quite a bit! I may get teary eyed usually but not full on tears, or choked up to the point of needing to put the book down to get myself together, but this book did just that!

It was beautifully paced, the writing was great, all the characters were developed. The main characters are Liesl (a strong 11 year old girl), Will (a brave young boy), and Po (a genderless ghost with his cute cat-dog ghost companion named Bundle). The other characters also got their moments, in fact several of them got their POV and normally that might make it confusing for me but that wasn't the case here, instead it sucked me into the story even more!

I didn't expect to get so much out of a middle grade book, it made me feel, sucked me in, gave me tears and even made me think on several occasions. I was pleasantly surprised!

This story is a truly magical adventure and I highly recommend it!


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Liesl Po Lauren Oliver Kei Acedera 9780062014511 Books Reviews

How dark can a middle reader book go? If you consider the Grimm Brother's fairy tales, they can be awfully grim (yeah, yeah, bad pun attempted!). In fact, I have often bought these classic fairy tales for baby showers, thinking I was doing a nice thing. After reading more and more of them this year, I realize I have been traumatizing all the young children in my family! So when I started reading Liesl and Po, by Lauren Oliver, I was surprised by some of the darkness, but thrilled by the charming story underneath.

Liesl hasn't left the attic since her father's death. Her stepmother makes her stay there to keep her safe. Safe from what, Liesl doesn't know. Will is the orphaned assistant of a mean and nasty alchemist. His only highlight in running the alchemist's errands throughout the middle of the night is seeing the girl in the window of the attic. That girl is Liesl. She doesn't know he is out there, but he can't stop thinking about her. He thinks about her so much that he accidentally takes the wrong box to the Lady Premiere. He is supposed to bring her a box of the darkest and strongest magic the alchemist has every made, the same magic that has taken away the sun for over 1700 days, but instead he grabs the box of Liesl's father's ashes. The box of magic is inadvertently delivered to Liesl's stepmom instead of the ashes.

When Po, a ghost boy, comes to visit Liesl in the attic, he helps her connect to her father. There she learns her father wants his ashes brought to their old house where her mother is buried so he can finally cross over and be at peace. Po helps Liesl escape the attic so he can get her to the old house. Along the way, a series of mistakes, switches, misunderstandings, and plain old silliness leads to an adventure where Will, Po, and Liesl try to put her father to rest while everyone else in the countryside is out looking for them. What no one knows is that the magic box might be more powerful than any of them could imagine, but love is more powerful.

Some people might disagree, but I think you can have some darkness to a middle reader, especially if there is an ending where everything works out for the better. I think the Grimm's fairy tales are too dark even for my 30 year old self, of course! But this book had just enough dark and just enough softness to balance it out. You want Will and Liesl to make it to their destination, but all the mix-ups and silliness throughout the story keeps you hanging on until the last page thinking, "What could possibly happen NOW?!" I admit the story was a little hard to get into at first, and some key details weren't revealed until 1/3 of the book had passed. That, sadly, might make it too hard for the reader, especially a younger reader, to get into the book, at which point they would miss this exciting little gem!

As a middle reader, there isn't any sexual content, but there is some death and murder and Liesl is certainly abused by her stepmother. Nothing is too graphic or overdone, so the happy coincidences will balance those out fairly well. It is one of those fun stories where the circumstances change just by chance over and over again, helping the main characters out in ways they couldn't possibly know. It is a great way to make the reader feel most connected to the story- they know more than the characters do! I think this is a fun little ghost story, where the ghosts aren't what you should be afraid of!
I have read some of Lauren Oliver's YA lit, and one of the things I liked about the Delerium series in particular was her beautiful prose. She has a way with the written word, and she has good plot ideas. With her YA works, it seems like she was sometimes trying too hard to be a teenager and the details were occasionally a little sloppy. But I liked them enough that when I saw this as a daily deal, I checked it out. Reading the plot summary made it a done deal for purchasing. I absolutely love this kind of story - a cute ghost story that has a dark, but also airy feel to it. Hard to explain really, but I would go so far as to describe it as Neil Gaiman-esque.

So I bought it and decided to read it with my 7-year-old daughter. We absolutely loved it! She really is a very poetic writer, but it wasn't so academic as to go over my daughter's head. It's just beautiful writing. Proof that children's books do not need to be dumbed down to be enjoyable to kids. The plot was complex enough to remain interesting, but again, was also simple enough to be age appropriate. I could see where it was going from early on, but my daughter couldn't, and the ride to the conclusion was very enjoyable anyway. I was often tempted to read ahead by myself after my daughter went to bed (but I didn't cheat). I intend to buy a hard copy for my daughter to keep in her collection of favorites that she rereads before she goes to bed. For the record, my daughter is actually very sensitive and this was not at all too dark for her as was suggested by another reviewer.

I know Lauren Oliver is trying to write more YA and adult material, but I honestly think she should stick with this age group. This is easily the best book of hers that I have read so far, and it appears to be the best reviewed, obviously for a reason. I would highly recommend this book if this is the kind of story you and/or your kids would like.
This is a beyond beautiful book! Yes, it's middle grade, but please don't dismiss it for that as that would be a huge disservice to this dark, magical and deeply moving tale! Their are big themes in this book, in a way a 9-12 year old could understand them yes but that does not diminish their impact at all! It deals with loss, love, life, and death. It invoked powerful feelings in me, to the point a couple times I had to take a breather and there were several tears. For a book to get that big of a response out of me says quite a bit! I may get teary eyed usually but not full on tears, or choked up to the point of needing to put the book down to get myself together, but this book did just that!

It was beautifully paced, the writing was great, all the characters were developed. The main characters are Liesl (a strong 11 year old girl), Will (a brave young boy), and Po (a genderless ghost with his cute cat-dog ghost companion named Bundle). The other characters also got their moments, in fact several of them got their POV and normally that might make it confusing for me but that wasn't the case here, instead it sucked me into the story even more!

I didn't expect to get so much out of a middle grade book, it made me feel, sucked me in, gave me tears and even made me think on several occasions. I was pleasantly surprised!

This story is a truly magical adventure and I highly recommend it!