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The Bone Sparrow
by Zana Fraillon
DID NOT FINISH
I was reading this with a year 7 group of readers, aged 11-12, and we all found this book incredibly boring. We found ourselves dragging our feet through the reading homeworks, and no one was getting much enjoyment out of the experience. The pacing in this book was 1 step forwards, 2 steps back. The characters, while interesting and different in some ways, were ultimately rather flat and 2-dimensional, which is a massive shame.
I was really looking forward to this book beforehand, as the story sounded compelling and like an important one that needs to be told, in regards to our current situation with refugees. Unfortunately, this books few redeeming qualities (such as occasional points the plot moved forwards) were not enough to outweigh the bad, and sometimes cringey, writing of the story. Our group considered this to be a modern version of 'The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas', and we are actually going to be starting that story next instead.
This book was just a massive disappointment for me, which I wish could have lived up to all that it promised to do.
I was really looking forward to this book beforehand, as the story sounded compelling and like an important one that needs to be told, in regards to our current situation with refugees. Unfortunately, this books few redeeming qualities (such as occasional points the plot moved forwards) were not enough to outweigh the bad, and sometimes cringey, writing of the story. Our group considered this to be a modern version of 'The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas', and we are actually going to be starting that story next instead.
This book was just a massive disappointment for me, which I wish could have lived up to all that it promised to do.