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The lightning time

Gregory Maguire

1978247 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1978
first published
  • 1978Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · 247 pages · ENGISBN 9780374344580
  • 1979Chatto and Windus · 247 pages · ENGISBN 9780701124335

Twelve-year-old Daniel Rider draws upon some extraordinary resources while helping his grandmother resist land developers who wish to purchase her property in the Adirondack Mountains and build a resort.

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AtmosphereWhimsical

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful

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Written forChildren

When and where

Reading situationRead aloud
ThemesJustice
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