Girl With The Broken Wing

商家名称	信用等级	购买信息	订购本书
		Girl With The Broken Wing
		Girl With The Broken Wing

基本信息·出版社：Scholastic Paperbacks
·页码：160 页
·出版日期：2007年10月
·ISBN：0439748283
·条形码：9780439748285
·装帧：简装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：断了翅膀的女孩

内容简介 One night, twins James and Amanda hear what sounds like a wet cabbage hitting the roof. When they investigate, they discover a young girl in a white dress--who happens to have a pair of enormous white wings.

Hilary claims that her left wing is broken and that she needs a place to stay. But Hilary and her wings manage to get the twins into more mischief than they ever could have imagined. And who is Hilary, exactly? After all, angels don't have dirty feet, and they definitely don't snore...or do they?


作者简介 HEATHER DYER lives in Gyffin, Wales. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called her first novel, The Fish in Room 11, “a winsome caper just right for newly independent readers.”
编辑推荐 From School Library Journal
Grade 3-5–On a dark and stormy night, James and Amanda discover a white-winged girl knocking on their attic skylight. Claiming to have a broken wing, she introduces herself as Hilary and quickly makes herself at home in the twins' bedroom. Amanda is certain that they have discovered an angel, while James remains unconvinced. Sure enough, it soon becomes clear that though she has wings, Hilary's no saint. She ruins family outings, trails the twins on field trips and to school, and even steals James's spotlight in the local Christmas pageant. The author of the amusing The Fish in Room 11 (Scholastic, 2004) tells another tale of children caring for a mythical creature. Unfortunately, this one never makes it clear whether or not Hilary truly is divine. Worse still, the winged girl never endears herself to the audience. She's whiny, thoughtless, and self-absorbed. The story itself flits between her numerous escapades, ending without much in the way of conclusion or resolution.–Elizabeth Bird, New York Public Library
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Booklist
Gr. 2-4, younger for reading aloud. As in The Fish in Room 11 (2004), about a boy and a mermaid, Dyer tells a warm story of friendship between children and a magical friend--in this case, a young angel named Hilary. Twins James and Amanda are startled by a loud sound, "like a wet cabbage hitting a wall." The noise announces the arrival of cold, wet-winged Hilary, who drops through a window and ends up leading the twins on some farcical adventures. Hilary is eager to share in the twins' daily activities, so different from her life at home, a place she alludes to as having lots of old people and songs but never discloses. Some children may have logistical questions (don't the parents realize that Hilary is in the house?), but the flying scenes are thrilling, and kids will chortle over the gentle comedy and the likable angel who longs to live like a regular kid. Bailey's ink illustrations hit just the right notes of humor and old-fashioned whimsy. A good chapter book for newly confident readers. Gillian Engberg
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

查看更多 下一篇