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Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9781416909859
ISBN number: 1416909850
Label: Atheneum
Manufacturer: Atheneum
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 176
Printing Date: July 01, 2008
Publishing house: Atheneum
Age index: Ages 9-12
Sale Popularity Level: 72309
Studio: Atheneum
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The Grayson twins are moving to a new town. Again.
Although it's a drag to be constantly mistaken for each other, in truth, during those very first days at a new school, there's nothing better than having a twin brother there with you. But on day one of sixth grade, Ray stays home sick, and Jay is on his own. No big deal. It's a pretty nice school, good kids, too. But Jay quickly discovers a major mistake: No one seems to know a thing about his brother. Ray's not on the attendance lists, doesn't have a locker, doesn't even have a student folder. Jay almost tells the school -- almost -- but then decides that this lost information could be very...useful. And fun.
As Ray and Jay exploit a clerical oversight, they each find new views on friendship, honesty, what it means to be a twin -- and what it means to be yourself. Entertaining, thought-provoking, and true-to-life, this clever novel is classic Andrew Clements times two: twins!
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"Lost and Found" is an entertaining story about twins who, due to a clerical error when they enroll in a new school, are registered as one student. So one twin hides in the garage (until the parents leave for work, then he goes in the house) while the other goes off to school, and they switch roles every day.
As you can imagine, this sets up several interesting little problems (involving soccer, girls, etc...) that finally get resolved at the end when the truth comes out.
An easy, breezy read, this book is sure to please kids. It's not as substantive, perhaps, as Clements' "Frindle", "School Story", or "Week in the Woods", but that won't stop kids from enjoying it. My 9 yo daughter picked this book up the minute I set it down and read it in one sitting. She loved the idea of the twins' secret prank and said it was a great book.
A solid offering from an imaginative author. Recommended for ages 7-11.
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This is the very first book that I've read by Andrew Clements but I found it to be a very enjoyable and fun read. I read it with my eight and eleven year olds who really enjoyed the story. When reading a children's book I try to look at it from a child's perspective instead of an adults. For one instance something that may be old and already done thousands of times to an adult, may also be fresh, new and exciting to a child. And Lost and Found was all of those things, my kids found it to be impossible to put down right until the very end.
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I've got twin boys and this story was so cute for them to read. They could identify with the story and it has quickly become a favorite bedtime read for the whole family. Illustrations was pleasing to the eyes and the font is a great size for beginning readers.
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"Lost and Found" is the story of sixth-grade twin brothers, Ray and Jay, who take advantage of a clerical error at their new school which has resulted in them being registered as one kid, not two. One of the boys hatches a plan, and the other goes along with it: By alternating their days at school, the boys can -- for the very first time in their lives -- be individuals. They can make their own friends. They can live their lives without having to worry about people confusing them with the other one. The irony, of course, is that their plan is doomed to failure from the start, at least in the sense of their "mission." Because if they're pretending to just be one of the boys, the other boy is always going to be called by the wrong name when it's his turn to go to school. And it's not easy to make googoo eyes at a girl in your class when your identical twin brother was making eyes at a different girl the day previous. Things are bound to get very complicated.
It's an interesting concept for certain, and Andrew Clements -- who seems to have a knack for coming up with school-related ideas and putting them into books that are not only fun, but spark imagination and debate -- does a fine job of presenting the story. Despite the similarity of the boys' names (Ray and Jay) -- which may be as confusing for the reader as it is for the characters in the story who mix the boys up -- the boys have distinct personalities, and Clements makes sure we know that while these kids may look identical, they're quite different otherwise. It's actually kind of an eye-opener about the possible feelings and struggles of identical twins.
A few things I didn't like about the book: First, the writing style was very informal. (Lots of sentences. That went. Like this.) But that's just a personal preference issue; others may eat it right up. Second, I didn't like the fact that Ray and Jay spent *so* much time at the beginning of the story (as they were hatching their plan) pondering the consequences of their actions. It's good in that it shows us that they're not dumb kids, but it also sort of sucks some of the spontaneity out of the storyline. But these are very minor complaints.
I think this book would best be enjoyed by kids ages 8-11. The language isn't too difficult for a third-grader, save for a few harder, "vocabulary" words that are thrown in. It would probably make a good Lit Circle book for older elementary school kids or even middle school kids, because it's an easy read that will likely spark some good discusion about family, social and school issues.
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Andrew Clements's new book, Lost and Found, tackles one of life's oft-imagined scenarios: What if twins somehow found a way so that only one of them had to attend school while the other took the day off? I suspect twins all over the world have at least given this a thought at one time or another, but Clements goes further and sets up the possibility realistically when an errant school file gets inserted into another and suddenly Jay Grayson realizes that his absent twin isn't even on the school's roll. And when he experiences school as a single, independent of his ever-present identical other half, he discovers the advantages to be had. So after a bit of pestering, Jay is able to convince twin brother Ray to give the plan a go, but the boys soon discover it's not quite so easy to pretend to be the other because, as we all know, school doesn't just stop when the last bell rings. What if someone spies both boys in the yard? What if they're caught at the mall? It's a tale worth following to see its inevitable conclusion.
Reading this book from an adult (and teacher) point of view probably hampers me a bit in my review, as I could poke holes in the story fairly easily. I found the adults in the book a bit dim, but I suppose that's part of the appeal to its intended audience. But this is a seriously fun book, and I love that Jay and Ray actually tried an experiment that seems fairly easy on the surface. I liked how the boys' trick was ultimately discovered, but it did seem that they may have gotten off a bit lightly in the end. But I do see huge appeal in the story and I think Clements has another winner on his hands. Perfect reading for kids from third grade on.
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