Begin Your Journey With Remarkable Illustrated By Lizzie K. Foley Issued As Digital Format

actual title of this book is Welcome to the Town of Remarkable Where Every Day in this Remarkable Place filled with Remarkable People is Positively Remarkable for Absolutely Everyone Except Jane.
Do you see why I shortened it Anyway, this book is by Lizzie K, Foley, and tells the story of Jane Doe, an ordinary girl living in a town filled to the brim with extraordinary should I say remarkable people.
Her mother Angelina Mona Linda Doe is an extremely famous architect, her father Anderson Brigby Bright Doe II is a bestselling novelist, her older brother Anderson Brigby Bright Doe III can paint pictures even more realistic than photos, and her little sister Penelope Hope Adelaide Catalina Doe is a mathematical genius.
Janes relatively boring name reflects the nature of her life she is average at everything she does and does not seem to belong in Remarkable.
If that isnt enough, she is the only student enrolled in the public school because all the other children go to the gifted academy.
However, she soon has exciting adventures of her own, which include evil twins, pirate teachers, and underwater monsters.


This book is hilarious and ridiculous, It has this blunt humor that had me laugh audibly while I was reading, Characters do the most ridiculous things, For instance, Captain Rojo Herring orders an entire truck of jelly to be delivered to his door simply because he feels awkward buying so much in person.
Later, Jane mentions to the reader that she cant tell the evil Grimlet twins apartthey are identical despite the fact that they are different genders.
Remarkable also has a nice moral, Janes grandfather the only other ordinary person in town sums it up perfectly: “Its the problem with Remarkable, you know.
Everyone is so busy being talented, or special, or gifted, or wonderful at something that sometimes they forget to be happy.
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I only had two problems with this book, First, it was not quite my reading level, This was another recommendation, and it should probably be read by a second or third grader, Im not saying I didnt enjoy it, just that I did not find it challenging, The other problem is that I saw through the plot a little too easily, I knew all the characters true identities at least three chapters before each was revealed, It took the fun out of the discovery,

I would definitely recommend this book, It is so wonderfully whimsical that anyone would be delighted by it, True, it really should be directed more to a younger audience, but I think adults, teens, and kids alike could appreciate its humor.


To see more of my reviews, visit my blog at sitelink wordpress. com/ This book is about a girl named Jane who lives in a place called remarkable, All the people who live her is remarkable in their own way, saying that they each have a special talent, All thought Jane doesn't have a talent of her own, so everyday she does to school were normal people go,

Until one day two twins called the gimlet twins showed up and led her on series of adventures.
like on a uncontrollable science fair,a pirate captain on the run from a mountain crew,a lonely dentist and a newly constructed bell tower that endangers Remarkable's most beloved inhabitant,a skittish lake monster

named Lucky.
Too many plots, too many story lines going in too many directions and characters that I really didn't care about.
Meh. Really liked the concept of what it would be like to be a regular person in a community of all talented people.
Many times I caught myself laughing out loud at the tongue in cheek humor of Foley, RTC
Still in a lazy mood “The world is a wonderfully rich place, especially when youre not trapped by thinking that youre only as worthwhile as your best attribute.
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Definitely not super good, but it is a kids book, so I wasnt expecting much as a teen reading it.
It was nice and brainless :, but I liked how everything came together and connected in the end, It had a good message too!

Absolutely LOVED this book, Read it out loud with myyo daughter, It was clever, witty, funny, and thoroughly enjoyable, This book was dull, repetitive, slow, and annoying, It's about a town where everyone is super special it's called Remarkable, and wow do they use that word way too much.
I was sick of it by the first three or four pages, Everyone in the town is super special except one girl and her name is Jane, everyone else has overly annoying and ridiculous names, and of course the entirety of their name had to be used every single time.


SO you have an overly used word, combined with overly used names that are overly long, and you have a town of overly 'remarkable' people.
Every single person is so far up their own asses with how special and unique and wonderful they are that they barely act like human beings.


Jane had a crazy annoying and unique name but when she was born her parents looked at her and changed it to something lame.
She is ignored by almost everyone, which instead of inspiring sympathy just made me annoyed at the fact this girl couldn't grow a spine or a personality.


If I had bought this book I would have been pissed, If I was a child and read this I would have been devastated, If I wasn't in the gifted program at school this book would have made me feel bad for not being super special.
The only people who are worth while in this town are super special people, If I was in the gifted program at school I would have felt bad for being special because this book portrays them as asinine self congratulatory people who have zero room for kindness in their hearts.


For third grade girls, but this should be read to them so that discussion about the themes can happen to avoid depression.


I saw all the plot twists coming a mile away, nothing new or unique, A wonderfully whimsical debut that proves ordinary people can do extraordinary things

In the mountain town of Remarkable, everyone is extraordinarily talented, extraordinarily gifted, or just plain extraordinary.
Everyone, that is, except Jane Doe, the most average tenyearold who ever lived, But everything changes when the mischievous, downright criminal Grimlet twins enroll in Janes school and a strange pirate captain appears in town.


Thus begins a series of adventures that put some of Remarkables most infamous inhabitants and their longheld secrets in danger.
Its up to Jane, in her own modest style, to come to the rescue and prove that she is capable of some rather exceptional things.


With a pageturning mystery and largerthanlife cast of characters, Lizzie K, Foleys debut is nothing short of remarkable, As a mother who is always trying to find books that are both challenging and appropriate for a particularly precociousrd grade daughter, I appreciate this book.
It is silly and fun, and there is nothing in it that is nightmare inducing or early dating focused, so that's a great start.
I also love that the characters have a whimsical quality reminiscent of early Roald Dahl books, and perhaps most important, there is a central female character who actually does things, important things that do not require her to be a sidekick to a boy.


However, that is it, It's entertaining, and that is all nothing inherently wrong with that, My daughter recommended it to me, and I'm very glad that she read it and enjoyed it, because her options are more limited than I'd like.
However, for my money, I want something a bit more challenging, and I look forward to when I can start sharing some of my favorite YA literature with her, with material that is complex, conversationinducing, and inspiring.
This book was okay. It was really cute and such, but the plot wasn't consistent, and it was kinda hard to follow.
Read this with my three boys and everyone loved it, Such a fun and entertaining book, Thought I would share some of the boy's thoughts about why REMARKABLE was remarkable, :o

"I really loved all the awesome names in the book, " The two favorites were Lucinda Wihelmina Hinojosa and Captain Rojo Herring, We loved how they rolled off the tongue

"I like how lots of people had secret identities.
" And how their cool names gave clues to the story

"Lucky, Dirt and Salzburg were really awesome.
" Dirtcutest thing ever!

"The Grimlet Twins were REALLY funny, especially the weather machine, " What a happy handfulthose little imps lt

"And Janeeverybody loved Jane!" Yes, they did,

A very sweet and funny book for middleschoolers, or even younger kids, I had a lot of fun with the names: Angelina Mona Linda Doe is the mom, Penelope Hope Adelaide Catalina Doe is the sister, and our heroine is Jane Doe.
She is one of two ordinary persons in the town of Remarkable, where everyone else is, . . you guessed it. . remarkable. The only thing that is not remarkable is the coffee at Coffeebucks because it is a chain, There are pirates, evil twins, a lake monster, and lots of fun, I'm glad I took this recommendation from my nineyearold daughter, What a great book! The pirates were my favorite, I tore through REMARKABLE in a couple of days and found myself laughing out loud constantly, I think that anyone who likes clever, quirky, funny middlegrade will love this book!

I was impressed with how many distinct characters populated the world of Remarkable and how many different subplots the author was able to keep rolling at once.
I also really enjoyed the satire inherent in situations like the great rivalry between Remarkable's boutique organic jelly company and the nearby town's massproduced, superunhealthy jelly which everyone in Remarkable secretly eats because it tastes better.
There are plenty of tidbits like that in the book that adult readers will really appreciate,

Plus there are pirates, Who doesn't appreciate pirates

I'm eager to see what Lizzie K, Foley comes up with next, I thought this book was very good and I liked how everyone in the town of Remarkable were remarkable, except for Jane and her Grandad.
I enjoyed the storyline and the characters were very likeable, I would recommend this book to girls aged betweenWhat a gem of a book,yearold Jane Doe is an ordinary girl in a town where everyone is gifted and talented, or at least highly competent.
Jane goes unnoticed most of the time, even within her own brilliant family, and longs to accomplish something noteworthy and be noticed.
She gets her chance when the criminallyminded Grimlet twins suddenly transfer from the School for the Remarkably Gifted into the public school Jane attends bringing the public school enrollment up to three.
Throw in some pirates for real! and hilarious capers ensue, The book is laughoutloud funny in its rich ensemble cast of remarkable townspeople and its dazzling plot maneuvers.
I absolutely love the confident, authoritative storytelling voice as zany events unfold, Yet the story is also quite poignant in its quiet celebrations of the ordinary, It's hard to be average when other people are exceptional, That's not only the subject of Remarkable, Lizzie K, Foley's debut novel, but also the reaction that I had to the book when I'd finished reading it.


Remarkable is a town in which everything and everyone is outstanding in one way or another.
Well, everyone except Jane Doe, a tenyearold with no distinguished traits of any kind, unless you want to count being the only student in town not enrolled at the School for the Remarkably Gifted.
But despite her ordinariness, she finds herself being drawn into a series of adventures involving pirates, a missing composer, a bell tower, a weather machine, and a lake monster.


As I read, I found my mind drifting back to a pair of other books: The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy, Book: The Hero Revealed, William Boniface'snovel, and Whales on Stilts!, M.
T. Anderson'skickoff for his "Pals in Peril" series, Boniface's book was also about a main character with no special abilities in a society where that was highly unusual.
However, its comicbook setting was bright and fun, and its title character was willing not only to involve himself in his own story, but to find his own unique skills in his case, a keenly observational mind and the ability to make careful deductions.
And Anderson's book had a fascinating setting too a universe in which children's series fiction of all stripes is quite true and a heroine in Lily Gefelty whose uninteresting surface appearance gave way to complexity and discovery of her own gifts as the story went along.


Both of these, to me, stood in contrast to Remarkable, Its fabulistic setting felt oddly generic, and Jane is a frustratingly passive heroine who contributes almost nothing to the denoument of her book.
Even her realization of the central plot twists, which seemed to me to come aboutpages too late, isn't necessary Detective Sly and Grandpa have already figured them out as well.
In fact, I think the argument can be made that Grandpa is the real hero of the book his kindness and sensitivity for the welfare of others shine brighter than anything about Jane, despite the fact that he's even more ordinary than she is.


This isn't to say that Remarkable is a bad book, because it isn't, Several of the supporting characters, including the gleefully chaotic Grimlet twins and the repressed savage Ms, Schnabel, are memorable indeed, and the prose is humorous and tidy, It was fine as far as it went, no question about it, I just couldn't bring myself to love it when I'd read and could call to mind years after reading two superior books that took the basic theme and did a much better job with it.


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