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The Magic Finger
Contributor(s): Dahl, Roald (Author), Blake, Quentin (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0142413852     ISBN-13: 9780142413852
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
OUR PRICE:   $7.19  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2009
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Annotation: The Gregg family loves hunting, but their eight-year-old neighbor can't stand it. After countless please for them to stop are ignored, she has no other choice--she has to put her magic finger on them. Now the Greggs are a family of birds, and like it or not, they're going to find out how it feels to be on the other end of the gun. Illustrations.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General
- Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic
- Juvenile Fiction | Animals - Ducks, Geese, Etc.
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 560
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 4.9" W x 7.5" (0.15 lbs) 96 pages
Themes:
- Catalog Heading - Language Arts
- Curriculum Strand - Language Arts
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 9268
Reading Level: 3.1   Interest Level: Lower Grades   Point Value: 0.5
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG comes the story of a young girl with an incredible power

To the Gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door, it's just plain horrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it, but the Greggs only laugh at her. Then one day the Greggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger on them. When she's very, very angry, the little girl's Magic Finger takes over. She really can't control it, and now it's turned the Greggs into birds Before they know it, the Greggs are living in a nest, and that's just the beginning of their problems....