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Reading with Jace:
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2. Trevor 4⭐️
3. Thomas‘s ABCs 4⭐️
4. The Mischievous Twins 3⭐️
5. A Crack In The Track 3.5⭐️

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50 points

The pictures are great as well as the message.

Feeling a little yucky today so I'm taking a break from everything with Mrs. Fletcher

I was excited to come across this book, plus there was a sequel on the shelf written something like 30 years later, but... The sex. I couldn't handle all the writing about prostitution and fellow travellers talking about their sexual adventures in these countries. I'm sad that I wasted 4 days of reading time before realising it was just going to get worse.

“He is the master of his machine, he knows her moods and tempers, where to set her bars and levers, when to slow down and when to speed up, where to run her wide open….”

Although I loved this story, I do think it was lengthy and drug out. I think younger children would struggle to keep attentive during this story. I would recommend either breaking it up in chunks or saving it for older grades such as fourth or fifth.

Locomotive by Brian Floca, 2013. Caldecott Award Winning Book. I think this is a very exciting and engaging book. There are many sound effects that a teacher could use when reading this book. This book goes into details of a train being built as well as its functions and crew. This story describes the train‘s journey with its passengers on their westward expedition.

I was taken to see a circus when I was a small boy and didn't enjoy it. Because of that experience I was not overly keen on reading this, the 14th book in the Railway Detective Series. Settling in to the investigations, two in Northumberland and one in London, there wasn't much progress and a lot of time was spent travelling without many thrills. In the latter stages the story came alive resulting in another very enjoyable and fulfilling mystery.

“The specific outcome was less significant than the act of defiance itself”

It's nice to know that you are going to enjoy a book even before you start reading it. All of the Railway Detective books that I have previously read were good and there should be no reason why this one would be any different. I wasn't disappointed. A womaniser had been murdered and Inspector Colbeck was called in to solve the case. I had no idea who the guilty person was until it was revealed and with an unexpected motive it was a pleasant read.