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Title: Wenny Has Wings by Janet Lee Carey ISBN: 0-689-84294-5 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: beautiful and eloquent
Comment: In a beautiful and eloquent series of letters to his sister Wenny, eleven year old Will North relates his near death experience after the accident that has taken his younger sister's life, landed him in the hospital with broken bones, and devastated his father. As guilt-stricken Will moves through the grieving process and begins to cope with his loss and his unusual experience, the reader is moved to catharsis as well.
The tone of the young narrator is mostly believable as that of a thoughtful and emotional preadolescent who doesn't always have the words to describe what he is seeing and feeling; occasionally, Will wavers from sounding too young, such as when he first explains his experience, and too old, such as when he and his friend are surfing the Internet. In spite of sounding young, the narrator's near death experience sounds authentic. The falling apart of the family, especially with the mother newly pregnant, is heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful. The author manages to balance the sorrow of the book with day-to-day goings on, and even with humor. This is a sad story, but passages will evoke smiles as well.
This is a timely book in many ways: a study was recently released that concluded the near death experience is just a misfiring of the electrical impulses of the brain. This could also be used to put September 11th into some context and generate a discussion on loss and coping with tragedy and death.
Rating: 5
Summary: I almost cried in the bookstore
Comment: I flipped through some pages at ... bookstore. I had to force myself not to cry in the middle of the crowd. This book gives a truthful insight to the relationship of siblings, loss, and love. Although Will does sound a bit more mature than his tender age of 11, this book is a must read!
Hehe I bought one of 5 signed copies left in the store. The author is a NorthWest native.
Rating: 5
Summary: "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll crawl upon your belly...
Comment: ...like a reptile!"
Well, maybe not really upon your belly, but it will move you. This book could be a real downer given the subject matter, but it isn't. I laughed and cried my way through my feelings about death with this book. For me it was really good. And I'm in my mid-40s! But the target audience is YA, and just when the material is getting heavy, there is usually some age-appropriate comic relief. Think "Catherine Called Birdy" meets "Into the Light".
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Title: Stand Tall by Joan Bauer ISBN: 039923473X Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Juv Pub. Date: 26 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Victory Garden by Lee Kochenderfer ISBN: 0385327889 Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Secret Within by Theresa Martin Golding ISBN: 1563979950 Publisher: Boyds Mills Pr Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Spirit and Gilly Bucket by Maurine F. Dahlberg ISBN: 0374316775 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 28 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park ISBN: 0618133356 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 18 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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