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Book Report of “The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian By Lloyd Alexander” Lloyd Alexander start to writing for adults and his stories is always based on what he likes, them he star writing for young people. Most of his books are wrote with reality and fantasy in which the last one has a lot of impossible things to happen in the real world and doesn’t mean anything, he don’t feel these way about it, his point of view about fantasy is a simple form, a way to try to express things about real people in the real world, so fantasy can be an escape from the reality, in a very powerful and expressive form. “The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian By Lloyd Alexander” The principal character of the book is Sebastian the Fiddler who is the Fourth

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