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Title: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant ISBN: 0-440-40865-2 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.55 (67 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Lovely Read for all ages
Comment: Book Review: Missing May By: Cynthia Rylant
Summer is six years old when her aunt May and Uncle Ob decide to rescue her from her loveless home situation. This is different mainly because May and Ob are passed middle age, more like the age of grandparents. They live as a happy three-person family. May is eccentric and has a heart as big as the universe. Ob and Summer revel in their lives with May.
Unfortunately, six years after the three people became a family, May is found in her garden...dead. Ob is so lonely and Summer is afraid that if she can't help him to feel better and find a life on his own without May she is going to lose him, too. Ob tells Summer and her (reluctantly) new friend Cleus Underwood that he feels May around him and would like to contact her. It is Cletus, the strange boy from school that has elderly parents of his own, that thinks he has found a person to help Ob contact her. Ob brightens up, he dresses once again, there is a glint back in his eye, and he even puts his "whirligigs" in May's now uncared for garden. All these signs are a relief for Summer. She will go along with just about anything, including this hair-brained idea, as long as Ob is the better for it. The three set out to meet this soothsayer. Sadly, when they finally go to meet him they find that he has passed on. Ob is again silent. Like all the air has been winded out of him. They are going to leave the city without seeing the sights Cletus has been dying to see.
Ob, however, does some internal soul searching and finds that, although they will always miss May, he will be able to live the rest of his life until they meet again in the hereafter. A wonderful and touching book that helps the reader understand a little about how people cope at all ages when a loved one is gone.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful & Touching Story--for anyone
Comment: I am a student at West Virginia State College taking Children's Literature. As part of our assignment, we were to read a Newbery Award Winning Book and write our personal review.
This story is about what life was like for some people in the mountains of West Virginia several years ago. It is rich in portraying cultural history of West Virginians. This is important to me because I am a strong believer in learning about one's culture and heritage. I have the goal to teach West Virginia History to 4th or 8th Graders someday and will definitely use this book as part of that.
In this book, Rylant seems to be honest with her words. It seems as if these things could actually happen or actually did happen. I grew up near Deep Water Mountain and have passed through there several times. As I read the book, I tried to picture where this had taken place. I wondered if Summer was actually a real person and still alive. This book touched me in many ways.
This book would be an excellent aid in allowing someone to learn about dealing with the death of a loved one. I felt as is I could relate to Summer and Ob because my grandmother passed away a few years ago and I had to learn how to deal with it in my own way, just as Summer and Ob did too.
Rating: 5
Summary: WONDERFUL
Comment: Missing May is a wondrous tale of grief and recovery. The author deserves all the recognition she received for this book. I am amazed that, even though it is written for young readers, just how much it appeals to adults. I remember years ago when it was read to one of my college classes by our professor. It literally brought tears to almost everyone's eyes. The book is so skillfully written that it transcends age levels, genres, and labels. Not a single word is wasted in this story. I highly recommend it.
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Title: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse ISBN: 0590371258 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli ISBN: 0316809063 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech ISBN: 0064405176 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 30 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg ISBN: 0689817215 Publisher: Scott Foresman (Pearson K-12) Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman, Bryan Leister ISBN: 006440630X Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 30 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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