Cyndi Sand-Eveland
Autor(a) de A Tinfoil Sky
Obras de Cyndi Sand-Eveland
Tinfoil Sky 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Canada
- Locais de residência
- Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
- Pequena biografia
- Tundra author Cyndi Sand-Eveland has worked with elementary-aged children for the past fifteen years as a teaching assistant for students with learning disabilities and ESL students. She has led storytelling and journal writing workshops for primary and intermediate students. She has also worked as a freelance storyteller, children’s library assistant, and sign language interpreter. Dear Toni and her original poetry were recently included in a workshop to inspire students to begin their own creative adventures in storytelling and journal writing. She currently lives on a farm just outside of Nelson, BC.
Membros
Resenhas
Cyndi Sand-Eveland says she was inspired to write A Tinfoil Sky when she met a homeless girl and her father in Eugene Oregon. It was a brief exchange of spare change but it was enough to spark her novel about Mel and her mother facing homelessness while escaping an abusive boyfriend and not being allowed to come home.
Mel and her mother end up sleeping in their car, parked under a bridge until it's eventually towed. By then Mel has started to get to know a few people in her mother's home town. That gives her a small thread of support when her mother is arrested. Mel is ordered by the court to live with her grandmother, the very one who refused to open the door when they had first arrived.
Mel's life with her grandmother brings into question whether or not family is always the best decision. Her grandmother's bitterness is deep rooted in painful memories. As Mel counts down the days until she's reunited with her mother, she unravels some of the mysteries of her own life and her grandmother's bad mood.
Although the book deals with some tough issues: abuse, broken families, homelessness and drug use, Mel remains a positive character and the book has a hopeful ending.… (mais)
Mel and her mother end up sleeping in their car, parked under a bridge until it's eventually towed. By then Mel has started to get to know a few people in her mother's home town. That gives her a small thread of support when her mother is arrested. Mel is ordered by the court to live with her grandmother, the very one who refused to open the door when they had first arrived.
Mel's life with her grandmother brings into question whether or not family is always the best decision. Her grandmother's bitterness is deep rooted in painful memories. As Mel counts down the days until she's reunited with her mother, she unravels some of the mysteries of her own life and her grandmother's bad mood.
Although the book deals with some tough issues: abuse, broken families, homelessness and drug use, Mel remains a positive character and the book has a hopeful ending.… (mais)
Esta resenha foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Resenhistas do LibraryThing.How could I not like a book where the most peaceful place a girl can find to relax and feel good is a library?
Mel has a messed up mom, and their plans to escape a bad existence don't work out the way they intend initially, but eventually Mel finds a home with an ornery grandmother who turns out to be alright.
Mel has a messed up mom, and their plans to escape a bad existence don't work out the way they intend initially, but eventually Mel finds a home with an ornery grandmother who turns out to be alright.
Esta resenha foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Resenhistas do LibraryThing.Mel thinks she might finally be able to call some place home after moving so often, but instead her grandmother refuses to open the door to Mel and her mother and they end up living in their car. Mel's mother is arrested for shop lifting and Mel ends up staying with her grandmother. The only place Mel finds peace is at the local library. An interesting coming of age story about a young girl who finds a home for herself.
Prêmios
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Membros
- 89
- Popularidade
- #207,492
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 25
- ISBNs
- 8
This was a fairly good book, though I had a few issues with some plot points. While the characterization was strong, I did find Mel a little too good to be true at times. Also, while I can't help but like the fact that Mel retreats to the library for peace and safety because she loves to read, I had a hard time buying the idea that they would hire her, even for just a few hours a week, particularly to do preschool story time. Researching Canadian minimum age laws (I believe the story is set in Canada, though that's never overtly stated), I see that it is legal in some provinces to hire 12-year-olds, but it's such a strange thing to do that it just threw me out of the story. Those plot quibbles weren't enough to keep me from enjoying the book and finishing it off in one evening, though. If you enjoy stories about plucky children overcoming bleak circumstances like poverty and homelessness, this book is for you.… (mais)