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Indlæser... Parchedaf Melanie Crowder
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Sarael's parents are killed and she is left to survive by herself and the only company she has is her dog Nandi. A boy , Musa, is another character and the story switches from Nadi, Musa and Sarael's perspective. This makes the book a little hard to follow and there are a lot of characters to keep track of. Musa has the special ability to find water and he had to escape from thugs who treated him abusively and kept him enslaved for his ability to find water. Musa escapes his captures and joins Sarel and Nandi. It is an contemporary survival story with an exciting ending. I think this would be a terrific curriculum piece for the science of water conservation and the water cycle. I loved every part of this book... but the ending. The last part of the story just felt rushed to me, and surprisingly disjointed from the rest of the book. Not to mention that it was something of a downer. [I've got two middle-schoolers (okay, one is going to be one next term) and I know they would get dragged low by how things worked out. They're still at the stage where they like happy endings.] That said, I am so impressed with Crowder's wordsmithing. PARCHED deserves much praise for the author's word choice and ability to evoke a feeling and sense of place. You will feel thirsty. You will feel like you are roasting under a boiling sun. **SPOILERS** **SPOILERS** PARCHED is written at the mid-5th Grade level and it's definitely Cli-fi (climate based fiction), which might make it a good choice for English teachers looking for an alternative to OLD YELLER and WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS. (You know, books where the dog dies) **END SPOILERS** **SPOILERS END** There is no graphic violence, and no cursing. The dark tone and interesting story line should appeal to Young Adults as well as middle-schoolers. In fact, it might appeal more to the YA crowd as the pacing is not always quick. -------- rec'vd as ARC ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Told from three perspectives, Sarel, who just witnessed the brutal murder of her parents, Nandi, the leader of a pack of dogs who looks out for her pups and Sarel, and Musa, an escaped prisoner with the water song inside him, struggle to survive in a land without water. No library descriptions found. |
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In spite of all the critical acclaim on the back of the book, I found this a well written, but fairly simple story, without enough plot to stand up as a great book. It was also dreadfully depressing. ( )