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"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them …
Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of …
Fantastic! So gripping, the characters and the setting and the themes... so amazing. Love this book. Can't wait for the next!
A secret beats inside Anna Thatcher's chest: An illegal clockwork heart. Anna works cog by …
Amazing, awesome, wonderful book!!
As a cultural artifact, this is a great document. As a literary memoir, it lacks nuance and self-awareness. The afterword, added years after the initial publication, does nothing to dispel the sense I got of a total lack of self-awareness.
A memoir is not just a recounting of events, it's a carefully crafted story, with reflection on past events and emotions. This book does not have that. Devorah refers to problematic statements and attitudes that she inhabited while a part of this community, but adds no reflection, makes no indication as to whether she still holds that attitudes. Most egregious are her terrible statements about other women's physical appearance, commenting on facial hair and calling girls ugly in a way that horrifies me to think she still maintains those views.
This book served a valuable role in breaking open the market for OTD memoirs, a valuable genre. On its own …
As a cultural artifact, this is a great document. As a literary memoir, it lacks nuance and self-awareness. The afterword, added years after the initial publication, does nothing to dispel the sense I got of a total lack of self-awareness.
A memoir is not just a recounting of events, it's a carefully crafted story, with reflection on past events and emotions. This book does not have that. Devorah refers to problematic statements and attitudes that she inhabited while a part of this community, but adds no reflection, makes no indication as to whether she still holds that attitudes. Most egregious are her terrible statements about other women's physical appearance, commenting on facial hair and calling girls ugly in a way that horrifies me to think she still maintains those views.
This book served a valuable role in breaking open the market for OTD memoirs, a valuable genre. On its own merit, however, this book does not stand as a great literary accomplishment.
Eighteen-year-old Eff must finally get over believing she is bad luck and accept that her special training in Aphrikan magic, …
Rebecca Stead: When You Reach Me (2009, Random House)
Winner of the 2010 John Newbery MedalFour mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever.By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, …
In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and …
A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter …
