this is really an amazing book and it's really fun to read it so i hope you guys enjoy it too because my family and i enjoyed it
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Howl's Moving Castle
(2005, Fiction - Fantasy, Written by Diana Jones)
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Not age appropriate for kids under 7, age appropriate for kids over 9; suggested age 9. -
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Common Sense says
Young girl turned old lives with a wizard.
updated 07.04.08
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 9 and Up
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Parents need to know that there's not much to concern parents here.
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- Families can talk about what it would be like suddenly to be old, to have a child's mind in an elderly body. There's a lot about adulthood and old age that children don't know or understand, and they may be interested to try to imagine Sophie's predicament.
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Lives in MaineI rate this title on for age 8 and give iti laughed and cry becaise of this book
- Lives in New YorkI rate this title on for age 7 and give it
Classic? Perhaps.
This book is great, and while it may be slow-paced at times, the patient reader will be rewarded. The film is also good.
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- Lives in VirginiaI rate this title on for age 2 and give it
great book and a must read
sophie hatter is the eldest so she takes care of the hat shop when her father dies. one day the witch of the waste comes and is not pleased so turns sophie into a old lady.sophie ends up in a fantasy so unreal she almost doesnt belive what she got herself into.
- Lives in ColoradoI rate this title on for age 2 and give it
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