#35
Title: Magic Elizabeth
Author: Norma Kassirer
Illustrator: Joe Krush
Genre: Kids Chapter
Challenges: 100+, Read and Review, Pages Read, Book-a-Week, New Author, A-Z
Rating: B+
Published: 2007
Dates read: 2/12/09 - 6/18/09
Number of pages: 39

This story was run in The Seattle Times every Thursday for eighteen weeks as part of their Newspapers in Education program so that students would be inspired to learn. Go to www.breakfastserials.com which originated the publication. I arbitrarily determined that it had 39 pages since each of the 18 chapters was four columns wide and took up half a page.

When Sally goes to visit her great aunt Sarah, Sally is less than enchanted with the house, her aunt and a cat named Shadow. As the days go by, Sally explores the attic despite Aunt Sarah’s caution to not go up there. Sally also meets Emily the girl next door and together they solve the mystery of the missing doll.