The Girl with the Mermaid Hair
فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2010
Lexile Score
800
Reading Level
3-4
ATOS
5
Interest Level
6-12(MG+)
نویسنده
Sarah Drewناشر
Balzer + Brayشابک
9780061938290
کتاب های مرتبط
- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
- دیدگاه کاربران
نقد و بررسی
Sukie is a self-absorbed, friendless teen hiding in a fantasy life in which she elevates herself above her "less intelligent" and "less beautiful" peers. Mom uses alcohol and plastic surgery to distract herself from her loneliness while Dad tries to flirt his way to a more satisfying life. Narrator Sarah Drew captures Sukie's snarky attitude, which hides loneliness and lack of confidence behind a mask of bravado. Drew also nails Sukie's whiny, neglected mother and the false sincerity of her father, who thinks he's everyone's best pal. Thanks to the magic of an antique mirror that belonged her grandmother, Sukie ultimately sees her own emptiness and becomes the most mature character in this story. But the listener may have abandoned this pathetic family long before that happens. N.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
December 21, 2009
Sukie Jamieson, the vain yet glaringly insecure teenage protagonist of Ephron's (Frannie in Pieces
) second YA novel, has a lot on her mind. Is her hair—“worthy of worship”—in its proper place? Does the slope of her nose accentuate or detract from her almost-perfect profile? Will star quarterback Bobo, who tells her, “I really like your body-fat ratio,” ever ask her out? Matters get only slightly less trivial when her faux-glam mother returns from an extended stay at the spa with a facelift (but even less self-esteem), and her father gets beat up by an unknown man. Ephron keeps the reason for the assault under wraps for quite a while, and the gravity of Sukie's parents' collapsing marriage is overshadowed by Sukie's complaints about her image and want of friends, and her mother's plastic surgery woes. The parallels to the descent of a certain Oscar Wilde character are obvious, and teens who use this book like Sukie uses her grandmother's antique full-length mirror, which cracks and erodes over the course of the novel, may be similarly conflicted about what they see. Ages 12–up.
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