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| ISBN: | 0061892327 (ISBN13: 9780061892325) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Carnegie Medal Nominee (2014) |
Sharon Creech
Hardcover | Pages: 226 pages Rating: 3.74 | 4671 Users | 638 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Great Unexpected |
| Author | : | Sharon Creech |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 226 pages |
| Published | : | September 4th 2012 by HarperCollins |
| Categories | : | Childrens. Middle Grade. Fantasy. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Young Adult. Mystery |
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From Newbery Medal winner and bestselling author Sharon Creech comes a grand, sweeping yarn that is a celebration of the great and unexpected gifts of love, friendship, and forgiveness. With a starred review from Kirkus Reviews calling it an "enchanting tale to treasure," The Great Unexpected captures the heart and the imagination. Humorous and heartfelt, this is a story of pairs—of young Naomi and Lizzie, both orphans in present-day Blackbird Tree, USA, and of Sybil and Nula, grown-up sisters from faraway Rook's Orchard, Ireland, who have become estranged. Young Naomi Deane is brimming with curiosity and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. She knows all the peculiar people in town—like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. Just like that. A strangely charming Finn boy. And then the Dingle Dangle man appears, asking all kinds of questions. Curious surprises are revealed—three locked trunks, a pair of rooks, a crooked bridge, and that boy—and soon Naomi and Lizzie find their lives changed forever. As two worlds are woven together, Creech reveals that hearts can be mended and that there is indeed a gossamer thread that connects us all.Rating Epithetical Books The Great Unexpected
Ratings: 3.74 From 4671 Users | 638 ReviewsWrite Up Epithetical Books The Great Unexpected
Originally posted on my blog Guiltless Reading Open yourself up to the unexpected ... open yourself up to possibilities. The book in one sentence: An orphaned girl's luck changes on the day that a boy falls out of a tree.My two cents: It's been awhile since I've sunk my teeth into a good children's book ... and this was such a treat to read! Recommended for children aged 8-12 / grades 3-7, I could totally see a young adult reader liking this just as much. While I have also heard so many raves
I work with a Lizzie-type person. She doesn't take a breath, rattling through conversations like an auctioneer. Sometimes I want to make the timeout sign with my hands, other times I marvel at her yapping tongue. Lizzie Scatterding is Naomi Deane's best friend who has a good heart, is melodramatic, and can be annoyingly talkative. Both girls are orphans living in the town of Blackbird Tree and their relationship and dialogue is one of the great strengths of this novel. Dizzy Lizzy repeats
One word for my reaction to this book: Meh. I was not bowled over by the tale, I think because I felt Creech tried to include far too many elements - fairies, Irish humor, strange degrees of separation, belonging, coming of age. The alternating back and forth between the characters and setting in Ireland, and those in America was kind of confusing too me, and I think it would be so for young readers, especially as the Irish chapters were an approximationg of brogue sometimes. When Creech finally
The Great Unexpected is one of those books that defies a plot summary. It's centered around two orphan girls, Naomi Deane and Lizzie Scatterding, who live in the small town of Blackbird Tree, but the story incorporates a vast number of other characters, and reaches far past the town limits. There are plots, and sub-plots, and it's the way that they intertwine that forms the heart of the book.Indeed, it would probably be 500 pages, rather than 225, if it explained all of the details of each
Very strange. Surreal? Does anyone really talk like Lizzie? How old are the different generations of characters, really? Who is young Finn?(view spoiler)[Who are Joe, and Naomi's parents? (hide spoiler)]Why do people have different names we have to keep track of? Or do we have to?(view spoiler)[Would everyone jump at a chance to move to a mansion in Ireland? (hide spoiler)]Is there something deep & magical in the book that I'm missing, or is it a creative mess?I've enjoyed other works by
This review is from my blog, Studies in Storytelling. http://studiesinstorytelling.blogspot...I read this book in one sitting, and it was a complete delight. I say this as a 21-year-old college senior unaccustomed to reading Middle Grade. It releases September 4, 2012. The twelve-year-old, neurotic Naomi has a violent past and a childlike perspective, but a refreshingly sophisticated voice. Her sarcasm and levelheadedness contrast her friend Lizzie Scatterdingheads innocent, tactful
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