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Bezig met laden... Wild Birddoor Wendelin Van Draanen
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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. At first I wasn't sure that I was going to like this book - 14-year-old Wren, the main character & narrator of the story, wasn't very likeable. In the end, though, it is an uplifting story and I thought that the author made a bold & important choice with Wren. Unlike many of the other girls at the camp, Wren doesn't have a dysfunctional family or a history of some terrible abuse which caused her to turn to drugs and alcohol. That doesn't make her pain and anger any less real or her need for this intervention less urgent but it does make her a character that more readers (both teens and adults) can identify with. Being an adult reader of this YA novel, in some ways I couldn't help feeling sympathy for her parents - I can imagine the situation at the start of the book as being one parents of teenagers have nightmares about. At first I wasn't sure that I was going to like this book - 14-year-old Wren, the main character & narrator of the story, wasn't very likeable. In the end, though, it is an uplifting story and I thought that the author made a bold & important choice with Wren. Unlike many of the other girls at the camp, Wren doesn't have a dysfunctional family or a history of some terrible abuse which caused her to turn to drugs and alcohol. That doesn't make her pain and anger any less real or her need for this intervention less urgent but it does make her a character that more readers (both teens and adults) can identify with. Being an adult reader of this YA novel, in some ways I couldn't help feeling sympathy for her parents - I can imagine the situation at the start of the book as being one parents of teenagers have nightmares about. See my trailer here: http://literarymatchmaker.blogspot.com/2018/01/wild-bird-by-wendelin-van-draanen... PrijzenErelijsten
Young Adult Fiction.
Young Adult Literature.
HTML:From the award-winning author of The Running Dream and Flipped comes a remarkable portrait of a girl who has hit rock bottom but begins a climb back to herself at a wilderness survival camp. 3:47 a.m. That’s when they come for Wren Clemmens. She’s hustled out of her house and into a waiting car, then a plane, and then taken on a forced march into the desert. This is what happens to kids who’ve gone so far off the rails, their parents don’t know what to do with them anymore. This is wilderness therapy camp. Eight weeks of survivalist camping in the desert. Eight weeks to turn your life around. Yeah, right. The Wren who arrives in the Utah desert is angry and bitter, and blaming everyone but herself. But angry can’t put up a tent. And bitter won’t start a fire. Wren’s going to have to admit she needs help if she’s going to survive. "I read Wild Bird in one long mesmerized gulp. Wren will break your heart—and then mend it." —Nancy Werlin, National Book Award finalist for The Rules of Survival "Van Draanen’s Wren is real and relatable, and readers will root for her." —VOYA, starred review. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Her change begins to transform her relationship with herself and the relationship with the rest of her family.
There is action in the outdoor survival things she learns. But a lot of the change is intra and interpersonal.
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