Letters in the Attic
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (695 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0897335112 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 227 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Great coming of age story! This was a lovely coming of age story! Great fun and quirky characters and a warm tale about family, secrets and love.. A heroine for eveyone Luke T. Bush Heroines.Female protagonists, if you prefer.Being a guy I can't think of that many off the top of my head. If I had to name three, second and third place would go to Emma Peel (of TV fame, Diana Rigg of "The Avengers") and Wonder Woman (of comic book fame).Lizzy McMann would top my list.So who's Lizzy McMann? Like the other choi. "a wonderful read" according to Texan reader. Bonnie Shimko has mastered the art of storytelling in her Letters in the Attic. The well-paced novel introduces us to a feisty heroine and involves us in the varied relationships she has with the other characters.I immediately connected with the characters, especially 12-year-old Lizzy. Lizzy is the girl all of us wish we could
Meanwhile, she begins to learn things about her family history that help shed some light on her current circumstances. Lizzie is a charming narrator, a seventh grader hovering between na‹vet‚ and experience. There she meets her grandparents for the first time and strikes up a friendship with Eva, an eighth grader "who looks like Natalie Wood and smokes." Her one-sided attraction to Eva is instant and so are the attendant feelings of shame, confusion and jealousy. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. . She notices everything, and while sometimes the details tend to pile up and interfere with the flow of the narrative, there are enough surprises in this appealing story to keep things interesting. From Publishers Weekly A young girl's growing pains include falling for another girl in Bonnie Shimko's Letters in the Attic. In the early 1960s, Lizzy McMann moves from Arizona to upstate New York with her unstable mother afte
Then Eva gets a boyfriend and Mama's life enters what seems to be a new crisis. But what scares her most is her love for Eva. She is also concerned with getting a new husband for Mama—especially after reading Mama's letters that she has found in the attic. At school, Lizzy befriends, then falls in love with, Eva Singer, who is dyslexic, looks like Natalie Wood and lives right down the street. Lizzy McMann, A feisty twelve-year-old, lives with her immature mother and Manny, her father (she thinks) in a fleabag Phoenix hotel. One night, Manny's sudden announcement that he wants a divorce forces mother and daughter to move to upst