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Alice Hoffman - Green Angel

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Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.
 

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A Fairytale of [New York]: Alice Hoffman's Green Angel

Date of Review:  May 26, 2006
The Bottom Line: In which the author forwards this e-mail to 10 people in the hope of his wish coming true.
Review: Forget that we haven't yet forgotten it, or that we're still living and working and fighting through its direct implications. The next major milestone anniversary of 9/11 is upon us, and I'm preparing myself for a glut of 5 year anniversary memorial...
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  2.0

by: plorentz
Recommended to buy: No

Pros
Admirable in intent
Cons
Corny in execution
 

A new perspective on the effects of 9/11.

Date of Review:  Nov 18, 2006
The Bottom Line: The world surrounding the events were shadowed by a sky darkened with ash, but does that mean everything about it became dark. . .emotionally and otherwise?
Review: Fifteen-year-old Green was once a patient and quiet girl. She believed the future was a book of blank pages she could fill in however she wanted. Her world was as perfect as she could hope for, and she simply had to make her way through it.
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  4.0

by: dandj
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Magical realism
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Possibly using 9/11 as backdrop; what...
 

An literary masterpeice

Date of Review:  Aug 8, 2009
Review: I must say this is one of Alice Hoffman's best. basically in the story Green Angel, the main character,Green is left at home while her parents and her sister go off to town. While they are away tragedy strikes and it turns green's world upside down...
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  5.0

by: kcoll96228
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Its wonderful for teenagers,...
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In the begining its very depressing
 
 
 

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Authors Alice Hoffman
Fiction Genre Juvenile Fiction
Fiction Subgenre Unknown

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  Publishers Weekly: "In lesser hands, the layers of dense, lush description--apple trees 'as fruitless as fence posts'; 'mourning doves the color of tears'--might have overwhelmed the dreamy, first-person narrative. But Hoffman creates a careful balance, crafting an achingly lovely backdrop to the transfiguration of a compelling character whose very self becomes a metaphor for renewal."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (February 01, 2010)
ISBN: 9780545204118
 

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