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Bezig met laden... Letters in the Atticdoor Bonnie Shimko
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Reviewed by Marta Morrison for TeensReadToo.com I really enjoyed reading LETTERS IN THE ATTIC, set in the early sixties. Lizzy, the heroine, lives with her mom and dad in a Phoenix hotel. Her father comes in, a real sleezeball, and with his new girlfriend in tow, proceeds to tell her mother that he is divorcing her. He even has the gall to ask Vonnie, her mother, to apologize to his girlfriend because she isn't being nice. Well, with no place to go home to, they head to upstate New York to Vonnie's parents' house. Lizzy meets her grandparents for the first time. Her grandfather is great, but her grandmother is verbally abusive. There, Lizzy learns a lot about her mother's past through letters that are in the attic. She examines her sexuality and helps her mother to become the person that she is meant to be. While reading this book I laughed, cried, and was hopeful for the characters. I really liked Lizzy and her family. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Lizzy McMann, A feisty twelve-year-old, lives with her immature mother and Manny, her father (she thinks) in a fleabag Phoenix hotel. One night, Manny's sudden announcement that he wants a divorce forces mother and daughter to move to upstate New York to live with Lizzy's grandmother and grandfather—a mixed blessing. At school, Lizzy befriends, then falls in love with, Eva Singer, who is dyslexic, looks like Natalie Wood and lives right down the street. Like all girls her age, Lizzy has to deal with her first period, her first bra and her first boyfriend. But what scares her most is her love for Eva. She is also concerned with getting a new husband for Mama—especially after reading Mama's letters that she has found in the attic. Then Eva gets a boyfriend and Mama's life enters what seems to be a new crisis. . . . How Lizzy comes to grips with life's strange twists and turns makes fascinating reading for adults and young readers alike. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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It's a perfectly agreeable little story about a wiser-than-her-years adolescent who tactfully helps her mother put her love-life back on the rails. There's some quaint sixties background, and it tries to score some LGBT brownie points by having the narrator say that she's fallen in love with the girl next door. But that's as far as it goes. The book ends before she has to face coming out to her friend or to anyone else except the reader, if we want to we are free to apply the "it's just a phase" theory. Probably well-intentioned, but a cop-out, and not likely to be of much interest to any reader over the age of twelve. ( )