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Karen Rivers

Auteur de The Girl in the Well Is Me

25 oeuvres 985 utilisateurs 71 critiques

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Œuvres de Karen Rivers

The Girl in the Well Is Me (2016) 203 exemplaires
The Encyclopedia of Me (2012) 141 exemplaires
Love, Ish (2017) 82 exemplaires
Finding Ruby Starling (2014) 76 exemplaires
You Are The Everything (2018) 66 exemplaires
What Is Real (2011) 59 exemplaires
Before We Go Extinct: A Novel (2016) 55 exemplaires
A Possibility of Whales (2018) 51 exemplaires
The Healing Time of Hickeys (2003) 45 exemplaires
Waiting to Dive (2001) 28 exemplaires
X in Flight (2007) 23 exemplaires
All That Was: A Novel (2018) 19 exemplaires
Naked Mole Rat Saves the World (2019) 18 exemplaires
The Actual Total Truth (2001) 16 exemplaires
Surviving Sam (2001) 14 exemplaires
Barely Hanging On (2003) 13 exemplaires
A Pretty Implausible Premise (2023) 12 exemplaires
Y in the Shadows (XYZ Trilogy) (2008) 11 exemplaires
What Z Sees (The Xyz Trilogy) (2008) 9 exemplaires
Dream Water (2000) 6 exemplaires
The Tree Tattoo (1999) 3 exemplaires
Miss Kiss. (2005) 2 exemplaires

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Nationalité
Canada

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I really liked this grippy book. 11 year old Kammie falls into a well while trying out to be a popular girl. Once trapped she wandered through memories and hallucinations in a strange narrative. I did not have strong feelings of fear or anxiety for the character, despite her being trapped and injured. I also know those mean girls were mean, but I fell like a little urgency to get a girl out of a well would have been a likely response.
 
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mslibrarynerd | 9 autres critiques | Jan 13, 2024 |
Naked Mole Rat Saves the World is a very deep middle grade book that dives into anxiety and how it affects us all.

I didn't expect such a delightfully titled book to be so... potentially dark? There's a lot of anxiety in it, and I kind of expected the naked mole rat to actually save the world and be a superpower somehow, instead of just being a tiny plot device at the end of the book. Regardless of how the book was presented, it brought a lot of tough topics to light. Anxiety, being scared of the world, traumatic events, panic attacks, anxiety attacks, loss of friendship, SO MANY DEEP AND DARK TOPICS. It does it well though, but felt like a book for more of a thirteen year old than a younger middle grader. It definitely could be read by that age group, but it felt... too tough subject wise.

I am impressed by this book even if I wasn't 100% connected to it. It would be a great book for school to help introduce topics about mental health and mental illness to a younger crowd.

Three out of five stars.
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Briars_Reviews | Aug 4, 2023 |
Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.
 
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fernandie | 1 autre critique | Sep 15, 2022 |
Ok, what do I even say about this? The writing is strong, and the thoughtful conclusions that Kammie comes to during her ordeal are pretty excellent. However. And this is a BIG however -- if this is humor, it's very, very dark, and you have to get through the truly horrific bullying to get through to the story. Between the mean girl flashbacks and the incredibly terrifying claustrophobia, I'm not really sure this is a book I can recommend -- some kids like a read with a lot of emotions and difficult topics, so I can see it. I just really didn't enjoy the experience myself.

I'll grant you that it's a great one for perseverance and becoming yourself, but wooo. If you've every been bullied it's not easy to read about.

Advanced reader's copy provided by Edelweiss.
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jennybeast | 9 autres critiques | Apr 14, 2022 |

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Œuvres
25
Membres
985
Popularité
#26,140
Évaluation
½ 3.3
Critiques
71
ISBN
113
Langues
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