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The document provides teaching ideas and activities for a novel titled 'The Visconti House'.

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The document provides teaching ideas and activities for a novel titled 'The Visconti House'....

I had the great pleasure this morning of reading a book that reminded me just why I turn to children's books for my personal reading pleasure--The Visconti House, by Elsbeth Edgar (Candlewick, 2011, upper middle grade, 304 pages).

It is almost as if Edgar read a list of books I have loved since I was young, and remixed the bits I liked best, resulting in a beautiful hour of happy cover to cover reading.

I so appreciated when I was young, and I still do, books about girls who don't fit in because their interests are so diametrically opposed to those of their peers (which is one big reason why I'm going to BEA next week--to see some of my book peeps!).

The Visconti Houseoffers a stellar example of such a girl--Laura, a girl who's working on a detailed encyclopedia of dragons, who has eccentric parents (her father wakes her up by quoting Longfellow, much to her annoyance) and who lives in an old and crumbling Italianate mansion (not your ordinary Australian house).

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