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Jingo Django

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The figurative language is delightful as well as the use of gypsy words such as "hatchi-witchu" and "chavo". Jingo and his companion are in a race for the treasure. Boys and girls alike enjoy this novel. I read it every year with my seventh graders and have my advanced students develop a project that requires higher level thinking skills.

"Sid Fleischman has done it again, by jingo! Jingo Hawks, of Mrs. Daggatt's Beneficent Orphan House in Boston, is hired out to General Dirty-Face Jim Scurlock as a chimney sweep. A mysterious Mr. Peacock 'buys' Jingo and they set out on a treasure hunt, pursued by Daggatt and Scurlock. Hilarious scenes follow . . . . Expressive line drawings enhance this rousing adventure." -- School Library Journal

What I Say about this book is that once you get into it you probably won't want to put it down just like I did. This book is about an orphan by the name of jingo hawks and his wild adventures with his "friend Mr. Peacok-Hemlock-Jones, As they search for a burried treasure.