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My 5 star review of The Chewing Gum Rescue And Other Stories, by Margaret Mahy:-

Spoiler:

I don't think I'll read a better book for the rest of the year. This book...I read it in real book form, and I had sworn never to go back to treeware.

But this book about children, magic and sometimes the elderly, is a fantastic book. I absolutely do think that it's better than any Percy Jackson story. Maybe it's better than even that precursor to many subgenres; Tom Sawyer.

I'm feeling reckless enough to compare Mahy to Twain. Go read this. It blows Isabelle Allende's magic realism out of the water.

I do know that Mahy is only human. I tried reading one of her other books. It was garbage. But THIS. Is a masterpiece.