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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
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It was fine. The two main characters were adequately developed and engaging, the story less so.
What a great book for readers young and old. How I would have loved this one as a child. It has the right combination of darkness and light, and suspense enough to keep you from putting it down. My step-daughter read this for school, and I really, really enjoyed it.
Skellig is a beautifully economically written chilren's book. It is enchanting in that it treats children like thinking beings and leaves many things unsaid, allowing them to reach their own conclusions and exercise their imaginations. It's a heart warming story about love and survival - the delicacy, beauty, and cruelty of nature. How not every fledgeling survives, but some do.
unpopular opinion (?) but i loved it im literally sobbing in the nelson house library rn
Thankfully not miserable at all like I had feared - weird and quirky and strange, but pretty enjoyable for a text that kids have to study. I’m going to enjoy picking this apart for lessons
3.5 stars
3.5 stars
The best part about this book is the fact that the children sound and act, amazingly, like children. Even though Mina came precariously close to setting off my "unrealistic and abnormally precocious child" alert, Michael's dialogue and thoughts and worries are so refreshingly those of a 12 years old.
My favorite parts are when Michael has a conversation with a sympathetic teacher who expresses warmth and compassion about his family's situation, and in response he runs off and rejoins his friends and executes a crazy football maneuver, somehow expressing his feelings better than any inner monologue.
My favorite parts are when Michael has a conversation with a sympathetic teacher who expresses warmth and compassion about his family's situation, and in response he runs off and rejoins his friends and executes a crazy football maneuver, somehow expressing his feelings better than any inner monologue.
Michael just moved from his home. His baby sister is sick and his new house looks like a ruin.
Unhappy, he goes to his garage that he's been forbidden to go to and discovers a man. Or is it a man? Michael doesn't have an answer to that but he does know that whatever is hiding in there is terribly sick and needs help.
Then, he meets this strange girl called Mina, with whom he quickly becomes friends. Sharing his secret with her, they decide together to help and save the creature in Michael's garage.
A touching story I'm happy to have read.
Unhappy, he goes to his garage that he's been forbidden to go to and discovers a man. Or is it a man? Michael doesn't have an answer to that but he does know that whatever is hiding in there is terribly sick and needs help.
Then, he meets this strange girl called Mina, with whom he quickly becomes friends. Sharing his secret with her, they decide together to help and save the creature in Michael's garage.
A touching story I'm happy to have read.
This might be the first good book I read this year.
From the very first page, I was enchanted. Really likeable and interesting characters, a good story, and a quiet sense of beauty.
From the very first page, I was enchanted. Really likeable and interesting characters, a good story, and a quiet sense of beauty.