There You'll Find Me
The book that inspired the movie "Finding You," in theaters May 14, 2021
فرمت کتاب
ebook
تاریخ انتشار
2011
Lexile Score
560
Reading Level
2-3
ATOS
3.9
Interest Level
6-12(MG+)
نویسنده
Jenny B. Jonesناشر
Thomas Nelsonشابک
9781401686598
کتاب های مرتبط
- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
August 15, 2011
Finley Sinclair is many things: an heiress, an accomplished musician, a reformed wild child, and a grieving sister. In an attempt to feel close to both God and her brother, who was killed in a terrorist bombing, Finley becomes an exchange student in the same Irish village her brother visited several years earlier. Finley becomes fast friends with her host family and strikes up an uneasy relationship with a Robert Pattinson–like movie star who is in Ireland filming his latest vampire flick. While this has all the makings of an earnest YA Christian romance novel, Jones (A Charmed Life series) throws readers a curve by very gradually revealing that Finley has an eating disorder. While this novel has some similarities to Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls—another YA novel about an anorexic teenager—Jones’s decision to leave Finley’s “issues” unnamed until the very last pages of the novel is troubling. Finley has problems, but her life is also glamorous. The novel strikes dissonant tones, unsuccessfully combining sprightly teen romance with life-or-death topics. From the very beginning, Finley is counting calories and denying herself food, but no one takes note until the final third of the novel. And even then, the eating disorder is described as “the beginning of anorexia” brought on by grief and stress. For young readers, the mixed messages this novel sends about a very serious condition may be problematic. Ages 14–up.
December 1, 2011
Gr 7 Up-Finley Sinclair is spending her senior year in Ireland, hoping to reconnect with herself and God by following her deceased brother's footsteps through the land he'd loved so much. The time and peace should also help her finish her original composition for her New York Conservatory audition. However, beginning with the plane ride, where she meets Beckett Rush, teen actor heartthrob, and is wrangled into becoming his personal assistant, things go awry. Assigned a project at her new school to "adopt" a grandmother, Finley is saddled with the crankiest woman in the nursing home. Then her host family is unable to take her to see the sights her brother had so loved, but the aggravatingly charming Beckett consents to be her tour guide. When the school queen bee discovers how much time Finley is spending with him, she decides to make Finley's host sister miserable. As her life crumbles around her, Finley must learn to trust people and God to see her through. With a beautiful setting and complex characters, Jones has written a powerful book about grief. There is no tidy ending, but readers are left with hope that Finley's life will continue to get better. Libraries looking to add to their Christian fiction holdings would do well to consider this book.-Jessica Miller, New Britain Public Library, CT
Copyright 2011 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
November 15, 2011
Grades 7-10 Two years after the death of her brother, 18-year-old Finley is spending a semester in Ireland, using her brother's journal to retrace his steps in the hopes that she will find some of the spiritual peace reflected in his writingwhich she will then use as inspiration to finish her violin audition piece for the New York Conservatory. The homey B&B she is staying at happens to be housing an international celebrity: Beckett Rush, the hunky, tabloid-fodder star of a series of vampire flicks. The two lock horns from the start. So you know where that's headed. Meanwhile, Finley's teacher assigns a final project of spending 20 hours with an elderly person, and not only is Finley's subject dying of cancer, but she's a grumpy pistol to boot. Romance is the focus here, and though this is by the numbers, the numbers are not without plenty of enjoyable banter and light obstacles of misunderstanding. Finley's faith, tested by her brother's death, is subtly handled, making this a read suitable for believers and nonbelievers alike.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)
sirenhead123 - i love this book and beckett sound so charming
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