Afternoon Of The Elves
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.26 (818 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B007K4RD1S |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Then Hillary's mother learns about Sara-Kate's decrepit house and the girl's ailing mother, who lives upstairs. From Publishers Weekly This enchanting story about friendship reveals the beauty, wonder and mystery that lies within the imagination. During the next few weeks, the girls work together to create their own additions to the village. . Ages 9-11. With rare talent, Lisle ( Sirens and Spies , The Great Dimpole Oak ) conveys a girl's vision of magic and truth through a montage of surreal images. Sara-Kate is sent away to rel
"A tragic judgment on our comfortable social assumptions" according to Margaret Fiore. This is a difficult book to read and accept. It beautifully delivers a message that I think most readers will dodge, particularly young readers, but perhaps most well-trained adults as well. It points out that our society's politically correct response to some social situations may be morally completely wrong.Hillary is a happy kid from a good home, with plenty of happy friends. But she is fascinated by her next-door neighbor Sara-Kate in spite of her junk-filled yard, her ratty clothes, and her strange ways. Sara-Kate, you see, has elves in her back yard. And an inordinate amount of knowl. Bittersweet reality, not fantasy M. Lilliquist This is a story of two young girls - Hillary, fortunate and comfortable in her family home, and her backyard neighbor, Sara-Kate, poor and outcast and forced to take care of herself. It is a story told convincingly in the voice of Hillary, as she slowly enters first the magical world of Sara-Kate's imagination, and then the cold and deprived world of Sara-Kate's real-life situation. The ending is not a happy one, but neither is it hopeless or overly sad ending.My nine-year-old daughter told me that she thought it was a very well written book, but the ending was not satisfying to her. She's. "MAGIC CAN BEGIN TO CHANGE THINGS" Someone is building a village for elves in Sara-Kate's junky backyard--could it really be that she has Elves back there? Nextdoor Hillary just has to find out and is fascinated inspite of herself. She wants to be socially correct and her somewhat snobby girlfriends at school shun the trashy girl and her recluse mother. But Hillary is torn between her fancy friends who sneer at Sarta-Kate's pedigree and her own delight in the possibility of Elves as neighbors. Is there some kind of Magic at work back there that draws her, begs for her help, binds her to secrecy and makes her do the work of
As Hillary works with Sara-Kate in a miniature village in the backyard, she is drawn deeper and deeper into Sara-Kate's strange and independent life with her mother.. FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY