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Book Review
Grass Angel
by Julie Schumacher
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Published: March 2004
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About the Book
Frances Cressen has the perfect summer planned. She’s going to Camp Whitman with her best friend, Agnes. But Frances’s mother has something else in mind for the family: Mountain Ash, a spiritual retreat in the middle of nowhere. Frances can’t think of anything worse than Bible class and baby-sitting for eight long weeks—that is, until her mother drives away with her younger brother, Everett, and leaves Frances behind.
Now a stranger is renting Frances’s house while she’s stuck living out by the graveyard with her odd aunt Blue. And Camp Whitman is a disaster. The boys in Frances’s group say that weird things are happening at Mountain Ash, and Frances begins to worry and to wonder. Everett doesn’t sound like himself anymore, and her mother never talks about coming home. Are they happier without Frances?
“Honest, lyrical, and deeply felt, Grass Angel is the kind of book that you want to insist that others read. Really. You must read it. I insist.”—Kate DiCamillo, author of the Newbery Honor Book Because of Winn-Dixie
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About the Author
Julie Schumacher is an associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of two books for adults and stories which have appeared in The Best American Short Stories and in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards anthology. This is her first novel for young people.
The Review
After I read this book I had to give it to my best friend to read. Now I don't know where it is because everyone keeps passing it on. Everyone just loves it.
Frances is a great character, and she's stronger than you think. All of her plans go crazy and she has to deal with it all. But will she deal with it well?? Read it and find out.
Read-worthy factor: 4 (out of 5)
~Bink, 12 - April 2004
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