Author: Liesl Shurtliff By: Ally Hutchison Rump Author: Liesl Shurtliff By: Ally Hutchison

Characters Rump – Main Character Red – Rumps best friend Granny – Rumps grandmother Ida – Rumps Aunt Hadel – Rumps Aunt Bathilda – Rumps Aunt The miller –The gold collector Opal – The Millers Daughter King Barf – The King of the mountain Martha – The castles cook Helmet – Martha's kid/ soldier The trolls – rumps friends The pixies – They like gold , A LOT! Fredrick & Bruno – Mean Kids

Setting The village The Kings Castle The forest where the trolls live Rumps Cottage His Aunts Cottage Opals tower The Millers House The Mines Yonder & Beyond The Cross Roads

Summary A boy named Rump lives in a magical kingdom where your name is your destiny. He is the butt of everyone's joke. Rump finds an old spinning wheel in his old shed. He had found that the spinning wheel spins straw into gold, and he has A LOT of straw. His friend Red warns him about the bad and magical thing that could happen to him, and she was right. Whenever he spins he causes more trouble. Read Rump to find out what happens next.

My Thoughts This book was a fun book to read. At the end of the chapters they kept me hanging. This book made me want to finish the book soon, and I did! My favorite character in this book was Red. She is very daring and adventures. I would give this book 5 stars!