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Sleator, William._The boxes_,1998
    This is a story of a girl whose Uncle gives her two large
boxes for safekeeping.  She is to keep them apart, not to open them,
and not let anyone else know about them.  She opens them and finds
they contain mechanical creatures and a time clock which has the
ability to slow the time of the rest of the world down or of an
individual person.  She gets involved in an adventure with these
items in trying to save her neighborhood from a developer.  It is
interesting thinking about what happens to others when your time
reference changes.  While the story  ends -- it leaves itself wide
open to a sequel.  This is an interesting story like some of his
other strange ones like "House of stairs", "Singularity" but I am not
sure I would recommend heartily this 196 page book for everyone.
Sleator is intriguing to those who like to ponder unusual concepts --
I would like to meet the man.
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Frederick Muller
fmuller@planet.net               Halsted Middle School Library
(973) 383-7440  ext.228       59 Halsted Street
FAX (973) 383-7432             Newton, NJ   07860
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