In June 1942, seven months after attacking Pearl Harbor, the Japanese navy invaded Alaska's Aleutian Islands. For nine thousand years the Aleut people had lived and thrived on these treeless, windswept lands. Within days of the first attack, the entire native population living west of Unimak Island ...
A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands. To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating th...
One of the more enjoyable Newberry winning books but still quite forgettable. This is a re-read and I really didn't remember the majority of it. The poetry flows well (and it was refreshing to read something different in that sense). Billie Jo is fourteen living during the depression and the dust ...
Today I was tired of all the reading I haven't been doing so I picked this book from my shelf and read it in one sitting. It's very short and not a difficult read though it covers some difficult topics. I didn't find the writing as beautiful as Hesse's other books but that makes sense for an epist...
This is my favorite Karen Hesse novel. I haven't read it in years, but certain phrases jumped out at me as I was rereading it. As with Hesse's other novels her descriptions are the best. There were a few times I wanted a little more details though, and I didn't quite feel the passing of time as the ...
Hesse's descriptive language is great as always (disclaimer: I've only read three of her books). I remember finding the poems about Biilie Jo's hands unreadably graphic as a kid, and they're even more unreadably graphic as an adult. But other than that and a few of the more experimental poems the wr...
The Music of Dolphins (or Music of the Dolphins as I always misremember it) is better than I remember it being as a kid. The descriptive language is great, especially after rereading Island of the Blue Dolphins.
I needed a book for my challenge on my group. And this one turned out to be the one, and what a crap book it was. This mostly is due the way this book is written. Since people are offended when I get it wrong, I will just call it some form of poetry and leave it at that.I don't mind poetry that much...
This book is done in a poetry-like style and follows 11 different characters. It jumps back and forth quite a bit, sometimes it was a bit confusing and at least for me, I felt I didn't really get to know the characters enough and connect with them.I love poetry. I enjoy reading it, but I honestly do...
I listened to this book - read by several different readers for the different parts. As an adult reader, this book will definitely stay with me. I'm not sure how much of it my students would really "get," I just don't think they bring enough background knowledge to piece together the undercurrents...
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