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Title: Waiting to Disappear by April Young Fritz ISBN: 0-7868-0790-3 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great character development
Comment: Every once in a while a book comes along that your have to take the time to recommend to other readers, and this is one of them. The book is set in 1960 in a small southern town, and isn't about social issues, but rather about a trumatic experience in a young girl's life as she is preparing to enter highschool. The above editorial review covers the reasons behind her mother's breakdown, so I wont recap them, but I want to comment on the characters in the story. Buddy - is a rare jewel of a person, who is very open and honest and wise beyond her years. She alternately combines sorrow, confusion and humor without overdoing any and is totally believeable in all aspects. I was captivated by her 22 year old Aunt Sherry, who held the family together in more ways than one. The rest of the family and friends rounded out the story, but Buddy, her mom, and Sherry were what made it one of the best reads I have had in a long time.
Rating: 5
Summary: A warm story of a family adjusting to emotional upset
Comment: Buddy is looking forward to a wonderful summer before she begins high school, but family problems are keeping her from fun. Her older brother, killed two years earlier, still haunts her mother's memory and just before the big summer picnic, her mother suffers a breakdown and enters a rest place for those with emotional problems. Determined to get her mother back from 'that place', Buddy embarks on a campaign which will change her family's life in Waiting To Disappear, a warm story of a family adjusting to emotional upset.
Rating: 5
Summary: Waiting for her next book!
Comment: I love an author who can handle "angst" humorously. All the characters in Waiting to Disappear are the kind of people who live across the street or who you meet at the grocery store...real, interesting people. Buddy's determination to get her mom home is so palpable and I found myself rooting for her to succeed, even though I knew it wasn't likely. This book doesn't end with everyone living happily ever after, but there's a lot of hope here. I can't wait to read April Fritz's next book!
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Title: There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Boot by Linda Smith, Jane Manning ISBN: 0060286911 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos ISBN: 0374399883 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The First Part Last by Angela Johnson ISBN: 0689849222 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: 2004 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market (Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market, 2004) by Alice Pope, Mona Michael ISBN: 1582971919 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd ISBN: 0142001740 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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