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Book Report On The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth is a book written by the author Norton Juster, about a young boy named Milo who was lacking imagination and bored beyond comparison. On page #9, Norton Juster said this, “There once was a boy named Milo who didn’t know what to do with himself, not just sometimes, but always, and nothing really interested him, least of all the things that should have.” Then one day, the Phantom Tollbooth appears in his room, and Milo drives through in his toy car (not having anything better to do) and entered the Lands Beyond where he underwent remarkable change.
One of the first significant changes that Milo underwent in the Lands Beyond was on page #31 in the Doldrums. The Doldrums is a monotonous place of not thinking, and in the Doldrums

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