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Title: The Canning Season by Polly Horvath ISBN: 0-374-39956-5 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 07 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Horvath Has A Wonderful Sense of Humour
Comment: When Ratchet's neglectful mother ships her off to her great aunts' house for the summer, she isn't sure what to expect. Especially when the great aunts, PenPen and Tilly, are twins who haven't gone farther than the post office from their mansion in the boonies of Maine since they were teenagers.
When Harper, an obnoxious but lovable teen, is accidentally dropped off because her guardian thought their house was an orphanage, yet another humorous and heart warming twist.
Rich with dry humour and sparkling wit, full of eccentric characters, The Canning Season will make you laugh out loud, or chuckle quietly to yourself at the absurdity of the situations in the book. The characters take silly things completely seriously and the combination of events throughout the course of the novel are guaranteed to make you smile.
Don't be turned off by the childish looking cover. This is a hilarious novel that everyone will enjoy, from old ladies just like PenPen and Tilly to their teenage grandchildren.
Rating: 3
Summary: A Walk on the Weird Side
Comment: Polly Horvath's National Book Award-Winning story "The Canning Season" details a preteen girl's formative summer in Maine with her two eccentric aunts. Ideally, this coming-of-age tale should captivate readers, yet it left me feeling as if I had missed the boat.
Horvath tries hard to create quirky characters and memorable events that express the story vividly to the reader. Unfortunately, she tries much TOO hard, and the characterizations, wacky circumstances and bizarre dialogue weigh the story down...the plot loses steam about halfway through and never recovers.
Reading The Canning Season will make you feel like the author is keeping secrets from you. This is suspenseful at first, then anticlimactic, as you realize the book's secrets and outcomes aren't really that exciting.
Horvath's best move in this book is placing readers convincingly inside the psyche of a young girl. It's a shame that so many other elements of the story don't measure up. I managed to finish it because of my adult patience and diligence, but I doubt a younger reader would be enticed to read even halfway through. It's just too weird, with no payoff to readers for enduring all the quirkiness!
Rating: 5
Summary: Instant classic for children!
Comment: Worthy of every award out there, this National Book Award winner is an instant classic! The book is a great look at a heartwarming and lots of times, silly relationship between a young girl and the two crazy aunts that she's sent to spend the summer with. The book is full of emotion; most of it will make you laugh hysterically.
Horvath writes so well about the relationships among the characters and the different events that surround their summer together. Every reader will be impressed by the depth and insight that is found-reminiscent of Roald Dahl.
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Title: The River Between Us by Richard Peck ISBN: 0803727356 Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes ISBN: 0060535431 Publisher: Greenwillow Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (NEWBERY MEDAL BOOK) by Kate Dicamillo, Timothy B. Ering ISBN: 0763617229 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: An American Plague : The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy ISBN: 0395776082 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 23 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli ISBN: 0375813748 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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