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Rotten ralph is a cat who stars in twenty picture books written by gantos, and illustrated by nicole rubel from 1976 to 2014. Do you molder in the grave, return zombielike or completely healed, or go to heaven and recline on the clouds. But the book took the taxidermy hobby and obsessive love of a mother a bit too far. The love curse of the rumbaughs by jack gantos 2006. Possibly the most oddball childrens book ever written and certainly one of the cleverest. In his third book for young adults, gantos scripts a completely original drama. In an introduction, the author describes the book as a plain and true smalltown story about a family love curse that is so passionate and so genuinely expressed that it transcends everything commonly accepted about how love reveals itself or conceals itself. In fact, ivys love is a family curse, inherited from her father. Book the love curse of the rumbaughs by jack gantos. But what happens when you love her so much you cant bear to let her go ever.
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As a book, its sort of what would happen if an old vc andrews plot fell into the hands of a good writer and a better editor, and the 300 pages of gratuitous sex were removed. The novel presented different viewpoints on free will, love, and the concept of superior genetics which i found interesting. Jun 24, 2008 buy the paperback book the love curse of the rumbaughs by jack gantos at indigo. But gantos has written successfully for young adults as well. Immediately, ivys discovery provokes the revelation of a rumbaugh family curse, a curse that, as ivy will learn over the coming years, holds a strange power over herself and her own mother. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. In his new novel, the love curse of the rumbaughs, gantos offers a darkly delicious tale that will both challenge and appeal to teen readers. On an unseasonably warm easter sunday, a young girl named ivy discovers a chilling secret in the basement of the rumbaug.
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