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Farmed Out (Orca Currents)

af Christy Goerzen

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Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. Maddie has big-city dreams, and this summer she's found her chance to visit New York. An art magazine is holding a portrait painting contest, and the first prize is an all-expenses-paid trip to the Big Apple. Maddie plans to win, but her mother has different plans for her: a mother-daughter adventure in organic farming. Maddie is furious. How will she find an inspiring subject for her portrait amid the goat poop and chickens? And worse, her new-age mother's attempts at pig reiki are an embarrassment. But Maddie befriends the farmer's daughter, Anna, and between dodging her mother and doing her chores, she finds the perfect subject for the portrait contest.… (mere)
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I've read some good Orca Currents publications and I appreciate their mission to bring short, high-interest contemporary stories to below average readers. The best ones take a fairly strict set of rules on length and vocabulary and craft an interesting and well-written story in barely 100 pages (and we're talking 100 small pages with BIG print and margins). But this story about a city girl being forced to spend an eye-opening week on a farm by her self-absorbed batty mother was so . . . bland. And like most books in this line, it ended with Maddie learning a "lesson" (though in this book, the lesson is not shoved down your throat in an unrealistic way, and that's true of most Orca Currents books I've read). I don't think "high interest" necessarily needs to involve solving a mystery or dealing with gritty social issues like gangs or stalking (lots of books in this line do just that), but even a quiet character development story like this one needs real conflict and rising action. This one never broke the surface on anything, and I ended up feeling like nothing really happened. It was unexciting and uncomplicated and hey, maybe I'm being too hard on it for that -- maybe there are kids who want a feel-good story where they don't have to worry about anything truly bad happening (well, a cow dies and people are sad, but that's about it).

Having said all that, Goerzen writes well from a teen perspective, especially dialogue, and Maddie and her mother (who does NOT learn a lesson, even though she is perhaps the most annoying, self-involved parent I've ever seen in a novel) had definite personality. The Orca Currents line works well in school libraries and classrooms, and this could work for struggling readers who don't want TEH GRITTY. ( )
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Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. Maddie has big-city dreams, and this summer she's found her chance to visit New York. An art magazine is holding a portrait painting contest, and the first prize is an all-expenses-paid trip to the Big Apple. Maddie plans to win, but her mother has different plans for her: a mother-daughter adventure in organic farming. Maddie is furious. How will she find an inspiring subject for her portrait amid the goat poop and chickens? And worse, her new-age mother's attempts at pig reiki are an embarrassment. But Maddie befriends the farmer's daughter, Anna, and between dodging her mother and doing her chores, she finds the perfect subject for the portrait contest.

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