George’s
Marvelous
Medicine
by Roald Dahl
Other books by Roald Dahl:
James and the Giant Peach
Matilda
The BFG
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
BY JOSH MITCHELL
THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH AND WANT TO READ MORE AT THE SAME TIME!
Genre
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The genre is fantasy. The book I’m reading is about a boy named
George. He has no brothers or sisters, and lives on a farm that is not
near any other kids. He spends a lot of time with his Grandma, who
is really mean. He says his grandma is a “grizzly old grunion of a
grandma”. George thinks of a crazy idea to make his Grandma nice
like Grandmas are supposed to be.
Setting
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The story takes place on a farm, in a house. There are 4 characters:
George, his mom and dad and grandma. His Grandma is mean
and the rest are nice. George’s plan was to make a magic
medicine that will cure his grandmother’s mean-ness. He will do it
when his mom and dad are not home, and it is just George and his
Grandma. George decides to give his grandma a magic medicine
because her medicine doesn’t work. He plans to give it to her at
11’oclock, the time he is supposed to give her the regular medicine.
George is excited.
Plot Summary
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George puts things in from all over the house like soap and hair gel to
clean her and to cure her. First he goes to the bathroom and grabs things
from there. Next he goes in his mom’s room and after that he goes to his
father’s tool shed where he grabs animal pills and dumps them in his
mixture. As he looks in the pot the color of the medicine is rainbow.
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Grandma’s medicine should be the color brown. He goes to his father’s
garage to get the brown paint to put in it. As he is walking there he sees
anti freeze and motor oil and decides to dump them in to his medicine
mixture too. Then he took the heavy pot inside. There were still animal
pills at the bottom of the pot! He puts the pot on the stove and turns on
the stove on to cook it.
Plot Summary (continued)
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After he boils the mixture he dumps out grandma’s real medicine
and pours his medicine into her bottle. He has 5 more minutes to
wait until it is her medicine time. His grandma says “George give me
my medicine, your forgetting me.” “Not yet”, said George. Now he
waits. He thinks about what will happen. Two more minutes left. It’s
11’oclock. George puts the cork in her medicine and shakes his
mixture. He gives the medicine to her and she drinks it. She
screams, “I’m on fire!!!!”
Recommendation
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I recommend this book because this book will entertain you. I think
this book will make you laugh because there are lots of funny things
in this book, for example at one part when they give George’s
medicine to the farm animals they all grow in crazy ways. One
chicken’s neck grows 6 feet long! l I hope you like this book. By the
way this book is both short and long at the same time, so you can
read it fast and get a lot of AR points. You’ll never guess how it
ends!