My Guardian Angel

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		My Guardian Angel
		My Guardian Angel

基本信息·出版社：Scholastic Paperbacks
·页码：208 页
·出版日期：2007年10月
·ISBN：0439576822
·条形码：9780439576826
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：我的守护天使

内容简介 Feisty and smart, Elvina is not your average twelve-year-old. She adores reading, writing, and studying, like the boys. And she detests silly girls' chores, like keeping chicken eggs warm until they hatch. But she is also skilled in the art of healing, a skill that ultimately gets her into trouble. It's the 11th Century in France, and the Crusaders are on a campaign to rid France of Jews. The Jews live in terror and are on high alert that danger is drawing near to their town. One night, while Elvina is alone in her house, she hears a rap on the door. Can her guardian angel keep her safe?


作者简介 SYLVIE WEIL grew up in France and studied the classics and French literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. A university professor and writer, Sylvie lives in Paris and New York City.
编辑推荐 From School Library Journal
Grade 6-8–The Crusaders–often icons of valor and derring-do in Robin Hood legends–were harbingers of terror and imminent death for medieval Jews. Elvina, granddaughter of the revered 11th-century French rabbi and commentator Rashi, takes center-stage in this novel in which readers experience the period through Jewish eyes. The otherwise fascinating plot proceeds somewhat erratically in chapters that alternate, but not consistently, between the 12-year-old's first-person communications with her imaginary guardian angel, Mazal, and a third-person narrative. While her mother is helping a friend through childbirth, Elvina becomes the woman of the house, frustratingly trying to balance her love of reading and writing and long, philosophical talks with her beloved grandfather with female responsibilities that she really doesn't want. When news that the illiterate Crusaders are heading through Troyes en route to Jerusalem to destroy the infidels (Muslims), the Jews know that they are in equal danger. While their leaders try to appease the marauders, Elvina stumbles on a young deserter who is hiding because he wants to study with priests rather than fight. Through a series of believable coincidences, the act of helping him becomes the catalyst for saving the community. Though occasionally uneven writing (or translating) keeps readers from being riveted, descriptions of traditions are well done and informative. Elvina's story brings a time, a place, and a people long ignored to life, but the novel may find a limited audience.–Mary R. Hofmann, Rivera Middle School, Merced, CA
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From Booklist
Gr. 5-7. "Did God put me on this earth just to hatch eggs?" wails 12-year-old Elvina. Certainly Queen Esther, the heroine celebrated on Purim, had a more significant role to play than keeping hens' eggs warm during winter, a task considered "proper and profitable" for Jewish girls in eleventh-century France. But Elvina feels less than bold when real responsibility looms: Gauthier, a reluctant young Crusader, asks her to help him desert his regiment. Is the advance notice he promises about possible attacks on the Jewish community worth the risks? Too many extraneous characters deflect attention from the interfaith friendship between Elvina and Gauthier, and some readers may be distracted by the intermingling of third-person narrative with first-person monologues directed at Elvina's guardian angel. Even so, this French import offers a heady plunge into medieval Europe as well as an enlightening lesson about anti-Semitism in a time period long before the Holocaust. An author's note reveals that both Elvina and her beloved grandfather, the rabbinical scholar Rashi, were historical figures. Jennifer Mattson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Review
"Readers don't have to be Jewish to appreciate this beautifully written story and it's wonderfully realized characters and fascinating setting. Lovely." --Kirkus Reviews --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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