Still a Work in Progress - Jo Knowles电子书mobi+epub
Product Details
Age Range: 10 - 14 years
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Candlewick (August 2, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0763672173
ISBN-13: 978-0763672171
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Product Details
Age Range: 10 - 14 years
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Candlewick (August 2, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0763672173
ISBN-13: 978-0763672171
In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life while coping with his sister's secret struggle.
Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The girls are confusing, the homework is boring, and even his friends are starting to bug him. Not to mention that his older sister, Emma, has been acting pretty strange, even though Noah thought she'd been doing better ever since the Thing They Don't Talk About. The only place he really feels at peace is in art class, with a block of clay in his hands. As it becomes clear through Emma's ever-stricter food rules and regulations that she's not really doing better at all, the normal seventh-grade year Noah was hoping for begins to seem pretty unattainable. In an affecting and realistic novel with bright spots of humor, Jo Knowles captures the complexities of navigating middle school while feeling helpless in the face of a family crisis.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Feelings of guilt, grief, bewilderment, and anxiety pervade Noah's present-tense account. Through his eyes, Knowles offers a touching and realistic picture of the effect on those surrounding a person with an eating disorder. A poignant window and mirror into the lives of families affected by a health disorder.
—Kirkus Reviews
Knowles (See You at Harry’s) sensitively explores the pain of having a sibling with an eating disorder, including the exhaustion caused by constant worry, the lack of attention for the healthy child, and the tension at every meal as the family tries to accommodate Emma’s dietary whims while closely monitoring how much she consumes...the relative lack of eating disorder stories told from a male point of view (especially for middle graders) makes this a welcome addition to the canon and a realistic look at how one person’s severe illness can adversely affect everyone around them.
—Publishers Weekly
With moments of genuine warmth and middle school humor, this is a less intense but equally heartfelt exploration of the effects of an eating disorder on a younger sibling than Vrettos’ Skin (BCCB 5/06). Readers will appreciate the honesty and accessibility of this tale about Noah’s desire to save the sister he loves but doesn’t understand.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Noah’s believable friends and their conflicts will draw in seventh-grade readers, especially boys...The novel is a great addition to a middle grade collection and will promote discussion in classes and homes.
—VOYA
About the Author
Jo Knowles is the author of Read Between the Lines and See You at Harry’s as well as several other acclaimed young adult novels. She lives in Vermont with her family.
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