The Runaways
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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Twelve-year-old Dani hates living in the small desert town of Rattler Springs, Nevada, but her plans to run away get complicated when a pesty young boy and an imaginative new girl decide they want to go along.Tags
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I always grab Snyder's books because I loved [b:The Velvet Room|6767817|The Velvet Room|Zilpha Keatley Snyder|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1287002250s/6767817.jpg|2440216] and [b:The Egypt Game|771952|The Egypt Game|Zilpha Keatley Snyder|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1306363387s/771952.jpg|1731888].* This one just didn't have the same charm, though. Until we start to get to know Pixie, about halfway through, it's as boring as the desert town itself. It's also presented as realistic, but is entirely implausible & superficial, all through.
2.5 stars, rounded up because I believe my childhood self would have liked it more, back when I wondered what it would be like to run away.
*check out this new nifty cover for that book: [bc:The Egypt show more Game|903|The Egypt Game (Game, #1)|Zilpha Keatley Snyder|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347840597s/903.jpg|1731888] show less
2.5 stars, rounded up because I believe my childhood self would have liked it more, back when I wondered what it would be like to run away.
*check out this new nifty cover for that book: [bc:The Egypt show more Game|903|The Egypt Game (Game, #1)|Zilpha Keatley Snyder|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347840597s/903.jpg|1731888] show less
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Zilpha Keatley Snyder was born in Lemoore, California on May 11, 1927. She received a B.A. from Whittier College in 1948. While ultimately planning to be a writer, after graduation she decided to teach school temporarily. However, she found teaching to be an extremely rewarding experience and taught in the upper elementary grades for a total of show more nine years. After all of her children were in school, she began to think of writing again. Her first book, Season of Ponies, was published in 1964. She wrote more than 40 books during her lifetime including The Trespassers, Gib Rides Home, Gib and the Gray Ghost, and William's Midsummer Dreams. She has won numerous awards including three Newbery Honor books for The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid and The Witches of Worm and the 1995 John and Patricia Beatty Award for Cat Running. She died of complications from a stroke on October 08, 2014 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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