The Phantom Tollbooth

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    Book Summary

    For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams. . .
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    Author

    Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer

    Year Published

    1961

    Lexile Measure

    1000L

    Categories

    8-12, adventure, Boys, classic, English, Girls, in corpus, magic, Young Adult

    ISBN 13

    9780394820378

    Profanity

    low

    Sexuality

    none

    Violence

    mild

    Goodreads Rating

    4.22

    # Ratings

    171924

    # of Words

    41263

Book Summary

For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams. . .
(summary from amazon.com)