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TAG: Listicle Books – Top 5 Objects That Make a Book Character Stronger

Posted on May 31, 2017

• #1 – Board Game – Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
  • When the kids are forced to play the board game in this wonderful children’s book, it helps them learn how to grow up. It also helps them bring a former game player back to life when he was locked within the game a generation beforehand. For that alone, it’s a powerful object that can put life on pause at it’s whim, but also help someone grow stronger.

• #2 – Cloning Machine – The Philosopher’s Apprentice by James Morrow
  • Mason stumbles upon a beautiful woman who seems to have everything he ever wanted, but she’s also secretive. Then he finds a younger version of her. And another younger version of her. It appears she has a cloning machine and has been on a mission that he needs to uncover. The cloning machine can wreak havoc on people’s lives or it can make you stronger. It all becomes clear in the ending of this novel.

• #3 – Standing Stone – Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
  • When Claire steps on to a mysterious stone, she’s transported back many centuries and falls in love with Jamie. But what about her husband, back in modern times? She was a little bored with him and their life, so could it be this stone is the strength she needed to go after all that she yearned for in life? I’ve only read the first book in this series, so I don’t know how it will end up. But this stone is pretty strong and helps her make a lot of decisions in the first book alone.

• #4 – Alethiometer – The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
  • When a young girl overhears a conversation about “dust,” and realizes her father and his friends are involved in some sort of potentially dangerous scheme, she must hunt down whether he’s doing good or bad, what happened to her mother, and what is this mysterious alethiometer left in her capable hands… When she finally figures out what it can do, it saves her life and helps ensure all that she needed to accomplish can be achieved.  I don’t want to say what the object does, in case you haven’t read the book yet, but it is powerful and helps Lyra grow stronger — both physically and emotionally.

• #5 – Secret Garden Realm – The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
  • I wasn’t sure if this fit the theme as well as it could have, but ultimately, when a young boy enters the secret garden in the backyard of his new home, he knows it has some magical powers. And when he reaches it, in just the right light at the proper time, he’s transported into a wonderland just like his book. Which of the objects has control?  Either case, both are quite strong and change his life for the future… one in which he learns how to be a better boy and to protect his younger sibling.

The following 5 people are nominated to participate in this tag, but don’t have to if they want to skip it. I also nominate anyone else that wants to participate in it to join the fun…

Topic: Top 5 Book Series You Wish Had Just 1 More Book In Them! And what would the plot entail……

• SassyBrit
• LuvToRead
• BuriedUnderBooks
• DesRandomThoughts
• SusanLovesBooks

Special Nomination:   Reactionary Tales (just for the fun of it!)

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