Bruce Brooks
Auteur de The Moves Make the Man
A propos de l'auteur
Bruce Brooks was born in Richmond, Virginia on September 23, 1950. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972 and from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1980. He has worked as a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer, newsletter editor, movie critic, teacher afficher plus and lecturer. He has written several children's books including Everywhere, Midnight Hour Encores, Asylum for Nightface, Vanishing, No Kidding, and Throwing Smoke. He has received the Newbery Honor twice, first for The Moves Make the Man in 1985 and then for What Hearts in 1992. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Jesuit High School
Séries
Œuvres de Bruce Brooks
The Red Wasteland: A Personal Selection of Writings About Nature for Young Readers (1998) 12 exemplaires
Keystone Kids 1 exemplaire
Dooleys Geheimnis 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Time Capsule: Short Stories About Teenagers Throughout the Twentieth Century (1999) — Contributeur — 58 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 1950-09-23
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Washington, D.C., USA (birth)
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Études
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1972)
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Discussions
YA about a girl who plays a cello à Name that Book (Novembre 2010)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 34
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 2,537
- Popularité
- #10,120
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 24
- ISBN
- 138
- Langues
- 4
Like this one.
If you were to ask what is the theme of this book, I'd have a hard time describing it. There's music, of course, as the main character is a cellist. It's not quite a coming of age story, though it's close. It's a story of family, and self, and music.
Silibance T. Spooner unexpectedly asks her father to take her to meet her mother, who she has never met. This starts a cross-country journey where she learns about her parents and the Age of Aquarius. There's some very well-done introspection on how people change over time and being true to one's self, as well as finding oneself through music.
There's also a secondary story about a mystery Soviet cellist that Sib spends an inordinate amount of time trying to track down, that ties in neatly and wonderfully with the main story.
There's really a lot going on in this book. I enjoyed it a lot. I only wish I had actually read it 15 years ago. I also wish it wasn't so long out of print.… (plus d'informations)