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Carregando... The Crazy Man (2005)de Pamela Porter
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. It is 1965, and twelve-year-old Emaline lives on a wheat farm in southern Saskatchewan. Her family has fallen apart. When her beloved dog, Prince, chased a hare into the path of the tractor, she chased after him, and her dad accidentally ran over her leg with the discer, leaving her with a long convalescence and a permanent disability. But perhaps the worst thing from Emaline's point of view is that in his grief and guilt, her father shot Prince and then left Emaline and her mother on their own. Written in free verse, a fictional story is told of a 12-year old girl in 1965 Saskatchewan who is injured in a tractor accident. Porter grabs the reader’s attention at the beginning of the story with the family dog’s body being placed in a burn pile. On top of the accidents, Emaline begins the journey of mourning her father’s and her dog’s deaths. The story teaches about mental illness, acceptance, perseverance, everyday heroes and the danger of making assumptions. The book would make a good book club novel for intermediate students or as a read aloud with class discussions around anti-bullying. Recommended for ages 10 and up. Took a verse novel workshop with Pamela Porter who won a Governor General award for this book. Such a gentle, unassuming person. I didn't know much about writing a novel in verse. But it doesn't rhyme. I had negative associations with poetry, but this book reads so cleanly, with no wasted words, so vivid. I was so caught up in the story, not distracted by the words. Strong emotions. I was relieved it ends with hope. Otherwise, what's the point. This novel, written in free verse, describes 12 year old Saskatchewan farm girl Emaline Bitterman's physical and emotional healing after an accident leaves her disabled and her father's guilt drives him away. The title, A Crazy Man refers to the psychiatric patient released from hospital that comes towork on the farm when the father leaves, is mentally ill and the townspeople want to get rid of him. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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It is 1965, and twelve-year-old Emaline lives on a wheat farm in southern Saskatchewan. Her family has fallen apart. When her beloved dog, Prince, chased a hare into the path of the tractor, she chased after him, and her dad accidentally ran over her leg with the discer, leaving her with a long convalescence and a permanent disability. But perhaps the worst thing from Emaline's point of view is that in his grief and guilt, her father shot Prince and then left Emaline and her mother on their own. Despite the neighbors' disapproval, Emaline's mother hires Angus, a patient from the local mental hospital, to work their fields. Angus is a red-haired giant whom the local kids tease and call the gorilla. Though the small town's prejudice creates a cloud of suspicion around Angus that nearly results in tragedy, in the end he becomes a force for healing as Emaline comes to terms with her injury and the loss of her father. In the tradition of novels such as Kevin Major's Ann and Seamus and Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust, novelist and poet Pamela Porter uses free verse to tell this moving, gritty story that is accessible to a wide range of ages and reading abilities. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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