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Illustration by : Andrew L. '12

Leon and the Spitting Image is about a boy named Leon who lives in a hotel because his mom works at the front desk. Leon is in fourth grade and is having many problems. He has to deal with a bully named Henry Lumpkin who taunts him everyday. He has a weird teacher, Mrs. Hagmeyer, who tortures her students by making them sew stuffed animals. In school, he is not doing well because he is so tired from being kept awake at night from a noisy ice-maker right behind his bedroom wall. His sewing does improves once the ice-maker is fixed, because he is now able to sleep! Read this book to figure out if Leon passes final inspection, and what Mrs. Hagmeyer does with all of those stuffed animals.

I'd give this book a ten out of ten possible points. It is funny and it is the type of book where you read with a flashlight under the covers after your parents have turned off the lights! I recommend this book to everyone, because even though it is about a boy, it is very exciting and suspenseful.

Spring 2005