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Alexander, Lloyd

Gypsy Rizka

195 pp. | Dutton | April, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-525-46121-3 $$16.99
(2) 4-6 A comic opera of a tale, set in a traditional storybook village where most folks are well meaning, where the one real villain is the overweening Chief Councilor Sharpnack, and where the local outcast--the girl Rizka--is a trickster hero, whose mischief benefits the meek and needy even more than herself. Scenes of broad slapstick effervesce with mind-tickling repartee in this book that is vintage Alexander: lively, satirical, and with a core of pure gold.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 1999

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