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Chargement... Nightbird (2015)par Alice Hoffman
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A sweet middle grade story with magic twining through it. Twig is a lonely girl with family secrets she fears to share, until new neighbors move in and new friendships break an ancient curse. Lovely, lighthearted, idyllic portrait of a little town in the Berkshires. It just felt a little too perfect and pat all the way through. For fans of the Penderwicks or Earwig and the Witch. For kids who don't want to be scared, but want a little mystery and magic and extraordinarily happy endings. Advanced Reader's Copy provided by Edelweiss When I first picked up this book, I didn't expect to personally enjoy it. The characters slowly grew on me as they revealed more about themselves. This was probably by design as the main character in the story feels she needs to keep the majority of her life a secret. While the story has elements of fantasy, this mostly realistic fiction story is intriguing and the messages taught are important ones. The slower pace of the story does fit in with the setting, and while I don't normally enjoy that, Hoffman did a very nice job of telling Twig's story. Overall a book I did enjoy and would recommend to students that are struggling to open up to others, enjoy an element of fantasy in their reads, or like the small town southern community feel with a relatable female main character. Children's middlegrade fiction (4th-7th grades; main character is twelve years old). This is sort of a cross between Rebecca Stead (mysterious things happening to kids who are just trying to fit in) and Carl Hiassen (kids trying to save endangered animals). The writing was good but overall I found it somewhat predictable and not as engrossing as I was hoping it to be (I have not read anything else by Alice Hoffman but have seen her books checking out at the library a lot).
Review by: Mark Palm Well it’s YA Book week, so I would be remiss if I didn’t tackle at least one YA title. Usually I try not to change my critical faculties one bit for any book, no matter the style or genre, but I did change my expectations a bit for Nightbird, by Alice Hoffman, because it’s a book meant for middle-grade readers. Whatever you call it, I enjoyed it quite a bit. Twig is the daughter of the best baker in Sidwell, a bucolic small town of the type you often find in the works of Ray Bradbury. This town has a “monster” the way that Loch Ness has Nessie, or the Barrens have the Jersey Devil. This monster actually exists though. He is Twig’s older brother, James, whom the family has hidden away because of a family curse that gave James black wings that enable him to fly. Their life is a lonely one because they can’t have friends, until a new family move nearby, and Twig befriends the younger daughter, Julia. James begins secretly seeing the older daughter, Agate. Needless to say things begin to speed up after this. One of the real strengths of this book is that even though this books is meant for younger readers you never get the feeling that Ms. Hoffman is talking down her prose or dumbing down her ideas. There are plenty of sub-plots in Nightbirds; Twig’s mysterious absentee father, a parliament of hidden, endangered owls and their secret benefactor, a rash of petty thieveries, a special school play, etc. As busy as the story is it’s never confusing, as Ms. Hoffman gracefully leads us through. Like Bradbury, whom I mentioned earlier, the town of Sidwell is a magical place. There is enough conflict in the story to make it interesting, but nobody comes off like a serious villain. There is a kind of Sepia glow to this book that I found very charming, but it never got sweet or smarmy. In the end almost everything comes together beautifully, in such a way that is both surprising and inevitable, which isn’t nearly as easy as it sounds, and it works beautifully because of Ms. Hoffman’s smooth and assured touch. She made me want to move to Sidwell. Who wouldn’t want to live in a town that has its own monster? Full Reviews Available at: http://www.thebookendfamily.weebly.co... Prix et récompensesListes notables
Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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A superficial story. But still delightful. ( )