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The Dollar KidsWhen a family buys a house in a struggling town for just one dollar, they're hoping to start over but have they traded one set of problems for another? Twelve year old Lowen Grover, a budding comic book artist, is still reeling from the shooting death of his friend Abe when he stumbles across an article about a former mill town giving away homes for just one dollar. It not only seems like the perfect escape from Flintlock and all of the awful memories
When a family buys a house in a struggling town for just one dollar, they're hoping to start over -- but have they traded one set of problems for another? Twelve-year-old Lowen Grover, a budding comic-book artist, is still reeling from the shooting death of his friend Abe when he stumbles across an article about a former mill town giving away homes for just one dollar. It not only seems like the perfect escape from Flintlock and all of the awful memories associated with the city, but an opportunity for his mum to run her very own business. Fortunately, his family is willing to give it a try. But is the Dollar Program too good to be true? The homes are in horrible shape, and the locals are less than welcoming. Will Millville and the dollar house be the answer to the Grovers' troubles? Or will they find they've traded one set of problems for another? From the author of Small as an Elephant and Paper Things comes a heart-tugging novel about guilt and grief, family and friendship, and, above all, community.Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 08/07/2018
ISBN: 9780763694746
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.30d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/18/2018
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2018
School Library Journal 08/01/2018 pg. 67
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2018 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2018
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Recommended, Satisfactory
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 197783 / Dollar Kids
Reading Level: 5.4 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 12
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★★★★★ 3
Not so good
Format: Paperback
Wordy and not very useful.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2023
★★★★★ 2
Book arrived damaged and ripped
Format: Paperback, Format: Paperback
Book arrived on time but unfortunately it was damaged and ripped with a sticky residue in the back cover. Not worth buying new if the book comes in poor condition.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2023
★★★★★ 5
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Format: Paperback
Needed this book for school. It came on time and was great!
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Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2025
★★★★★ 5
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Format: Hardcover
I was pleased to see the new complete translation of Picatrix by Dan Attrell and David Porreca released in the Magic in History Series of Penn State Press. Picatrix is central to European astrological magic that it deserves an academic treatment. In addition, the willingness of Penn State Press to release a complete translation of Picatrix shows how things have changed in the past decade and the yeoman work done by mages such as Austin Coppock, Alexander Cummins and Cliff Low to delve deeply into astrological magic.
As the translators point out at page 2 this version of Picatrix is, "specifically intended for students and scholars of the history of science and magic" In addition to the complete text of the Latin Picatrix in English translation the translators provide useful historical accounts of the pre-history of Picatrix and of the Latin text, Picatrix's exposition of the path of the sage, the use of the terminology nigromancia for astrological magic and the cosmology of Picatrix. Most interesting is a statistical breakdown of the types of magic in Picatrix. Finally, the translators elucidate their view of the importance of psychoactive drugs in ritual, though the translators insist at page 28 that they do not, "wish to suggest that all magic in the Picatrix can be explained away as drug addled delusion…"
Coming as it does from an academic perspective, focused on history and social science the Attrell and Porreca translation provides a valuable orientation and background for the contemporary practitioner of astrological magic. No single translation can do justice to a work as complex as Picatrix and anyone who is serious about astrological magic or interested in Picatrix should certainly get a copy of the Attrell and Porreca translation as well as the Greer and Warnock Picatrix and the forthcoming Arabic Picatrix translation.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2019
★★★★★ 5
Really cool book.
Format: Hardcover, Format: Hardcover
I admire people who can do this kind of work.
There’s a typo on p290.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2025