Chances are everyone knows someone like Ove. An old man, set in his ways, with a black and white sense of right and wrong. Gets up at the crack of dawn to make sure everything — literally everything in his neighborhood — is in proper order, same as the day before. Because God forbid something changes!
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The Book Jumper
Teenager Amy Lennox is spending her summer vacation on the Scottish island of Stormsay, where she meets her grandmother for the first time and learns she is a book jumper — someone who can “read” a book by physically being inside it. All they have to do is open a book and put it over their face. A book jumper’s sworn duty is to preserve literature, but someone has been jumping and stealing main ideas from the stories. It’s up to Amy and her friend Will Macalister to figure out who is committing the thefts, and how and why they are committed.
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The Reviewing Fangirl 