tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10589187.post-47760842655161700152008-07-16T18:29:00.000-04:002008-07-16T18:30:15.643-04:00<p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Gardner, Sally. <span style="font-style: italic;">I, Coriander</span>. Dial, 2005. [0-8037-3099-3]</p> <p class="MsoNormal">It is London in the 1600s and Coriander’s mother has just died, leaving her with the magic she inherited.<span style=""> </span>Suddenly Coriander starts traveling back and forth to from the real world to a magical world.<span style=""> </span>Her father remarries and she has a cruel stepmother who tries to accuse her of witchcraft.<span style=""> </span>While Coriander travels back and forth to the magical world, she becomes involved with a young man there who is having problems and meanwhile her stepmother gets meaner and meaner.<span style=""> </span>Can Coriander use magic to help her real-world situation along with helping her new male friend in the magic world.<span style=""> </span>With the traveling back and forth between the two worlds, this 280 page book reminded me a little of Funk’s Inkheart series.<span style=""> </span>Although it took me a while to get into the book, at the end I found I had enjoyed it.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10589187-4776084265516170015?l=mullerinthemiddle.blogspot.com'/></div>Frederick Mullerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08222270568868591753noreply@blogger.com0