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Has anyone else ever read a book by the author Avi? I love his writing, his stand-alone books rising up amidst the sea of trilogies and outrageously long series.

The Avi books I've read so far are:
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Midnight Magic
The Book Without Words

Is anyone else an Avi fan?

I've heard of him, but I've yet to read his books. He's certainly on the list of authors I should try sometime.

I have read many of Avi's books and liked most of them. The Christmas Rat was a VERY strange book so I wouldn't recommend it. But the true confession of charlotte doyle is one of my favorite of Avi's books

the only book i've read by avi, is Crispin. i thought it was okay, but it wasn't as good as i thought it would be.

I have also read The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and although it is not my favorite books I really enjoyed it. The basic plot was not really all that original but the characters were fun and really got some nice depth built up to them.

I have also read Nothing But the Truth (I think he wrote that one) I really did not care for it when I read it and felt like I had wasted my time. But now that I'm older I look back and realize it was actually a clever satire on how stupid America is with how we get so fixated and stuck on something without even checking to see if it is accurrate. (The basic plot is a kid gets yelled at by his teacher when the class is listening to the pledge of Alligence. He claims innocence since he was saying the words along with the recording they were listening to. His parents and neighbors and local politicans turn it into a huge debate with the teacher. And well... I won't say anymore. XD

Yes,I have heard of Avi.We have some of his books in the public library here.

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is one of my favorite books. What I like is how his books sometimes tie together. In The Man Who Was Poe, someone talks about a ship called the Seahawk, which is the name of the ship in the True Confessions of Charlottle Doyle. Two kids climb around the wreck of a ship that has the same description as the Seahawk in another one of his books--the name of which completely escapes me at the moment.

I read Nothing But the Truth a few months ago. I didn't like it until the last page. The last sentence, actually. In my opinion, the last sentence made the book.

So, yeah, I'm an Avi fan. (Although The Christmas Rat was a weird book.)

Well, I was at the library today and remembered seeing this thread, so I picked up The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. I'll give it a try later.

Christmas Rat was really weird. I third that.
Midnight Magic was interesting and very dramatic. It's about a 15th-Century magician's assistant trying to rid a well known royal family's castle from ghosts. This book is very interesting but be forewarned it does contain a heavy amount of occult-ish themes, concepts, and images.

Hmm. I'll have to check out this Christmas Rat everyone's talking about, to see what's so weird about it.

And Aileen Kailum, someone once said (I can't remember who it was) that every author wishes their first sentence to be read in light of the last sentence, and vice versa.

I was straightening shelves at the library today before coming home and across from where I was working they had CRISPIN on dsiplay.