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Weslandia
By Fleischman, Paul & Hawkes, Kevin
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-76360-006-8
- Publisher
- Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 1999.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 1999
K-Gr 4 Wesley marches to a different drummer. Looking for the perfect summer project, this social outcast remembers reading that every culture has a staple food crop. He decides to plant some seeds in his suburban backyard. In Robinson Crusoe fashion, he finds uses for each part of the unique and unusual plant that emerges (he calls it swist, from the sound its leaves make). By the time school starts again, he has created an entire civilization, including a language, complex games, a counting system, and a sundialall ba...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
