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   Instead of doing a book review on something like William Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation," or perhaps of Jean Jacques Rousseau's "Social Contract," I'm doing a review on a fun and touching children's book...  that makes sense.  Anyways, the book is "The Avion My Uncle Flew"  It's unique for a few reasons.  The book follows the life of a young American boy who has had an accident, and whose legs are healing.  Thus, the book begins completely in English.  But following his family's move to France, where young Jean is obliged to stay with his young uncle, an aviation fanatic and former French Underground Resistance member, it picks up the language pace, with the reader subconsciously learning French along with Jean.  By the end, without any prior knowledge of French... you can read an entire letter written in French.  So. The book is kind of really awesome because of that, but the story in itself is actually very well done...  When the young protagonist is certain that he has discovered a Nazi hiding out in the mountains, nobody believes him...  but that's all I'm going to tell you.  I recommend this book no matter what the age of the reader.  In my opinion, it's worth it.  Besides.  One can't sit around and read Rousseau and such all day.  Live a little!