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become a more permanent fixture in their gang. So in a way, his encounter with trouble and the resulting
required community-service job do Michael a huge favor. He is brought into contact with old Lemuel
Gulliver, living on the outskirts of town and guarding nearly 200 Lilliputians living behind his stone wall.
Michael is enchanted by their cleverness and determination, and when Lemuel leaves to pursue his own
dream, the boy must make some hard choices in order to do what is best for the little people. This is a
beautifully realized novel, brimming with hope and sparkling with magic in many forms. Characters (of all
sizes) are fully orbed, and the setting so vivid you can smell the clover and hear the music, even while it
resides uneasily next to our world of unkindness and violence. With a respectful nod to Swift's
imagination, the pleasing resolution manages to satisfy without compromising.
-- Melissa Moore
Twelve-year-old Michael is headed for a life of gangs and thuggery until a dust-up with the law brings him to the backyard of one Lemuel Gulliver; there a miniature town and its pint-sized residents give Michael's life new direction. Gulliver introduces Michael to the Lesser Lilliputians as their next guardian, and the young boy takes to his new duties with enthusiasm, repairing fire-damaged buildings, helping the residents construct a new town center, and fending off the latest invasion of weasels. When Gulliver takes off, however, Michael's old gang life catches up with him and he finds himself in juvenile hall, leaving the little people vulnerable to murderous rodents and scheming gang members. Specific knowledge of Swift's Gulliver's Travels isn't necessary, but readers will need some pretty sophisticated sensibilities to get Crocker's adult-oriented humor, including allusions to grand poobahs and macguffins; indeed, most of the satirical elements of the Lilliputians' society have the potential to fly over the heads of the book's target audience. Michael's story, however, works well as a tale of redemption, and his transformation from a lost and neglected nobody to a thoughtful, devoted caretaker of an entire village is heartwarming.The slew of action in the last thirty pages or so helps compensate for a slow start, so readers who stick it out will be duly rewarded by an exciting chase and a happy ending. KQG
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