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基本信息·出版社：Scholastic Paperbacks
·页码：144 页
·出版日期：2005年11月
·ISBN：0439719658
·条形码：9780439719650
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：男孩勿近
内容简介 When her dad moves away to marry another woman, Cassie Landauer decides that there will be no boys allowed in her house --- or her life. Not even her best friend, Bobby! But then her mom invites Great Uncle Harry to stay with them for a few months. That's the last straw.Great Uncle Harry takes over Cassie's bedroom, treats her like a little kid, and is always around the house. Cassie is sick and tired of it! But how can she boycott boys when one of them is living in her home? All boys can't be that bad . . . can they?
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly Cassie is devastated when her lawyer-father leaves his family to embark on a new future in Kansas with a "twenty-six-year-old lawyerette." While Cassie's disorganized mother tries her hand at a job for the first time and Cassie's sister Corinne obsesses over her looks and a boy at school, Cassie attempts to eliminate any and all males from her life. But when Uncle Harry comes to stay with the family, Cassie is drawn to him. With her uncle's help, Cassie discovers a path that allows her to move on from her anger and disappointment. Sensitive storytelling makes this story stand out from the many problem novels dealing with divorce. A credible plot allows each of the main characters to cope with the divorce in her own way. A compelling treatment of a familiar predicament. Ages 10-13.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From School Library Journal Grade 4-6-Cassie Landauer, 11, must come to grips with her father's surprise decision to divorce her mother and marry another woman, give up his law practice, and move from New York to Kentucky. Her friend Bobby Schaeffer seems to be a stable influence in her life, but she spurns him because he is male. When her Uncle Harry stays with the family as he recuperates from an illness, Cassie has to share a bedroom with her sister, thus forfeiting the privacy she now feels she most needs. Cleaning out her father's things, she discovers his old stamp collection and decides to work on it, subconsciously keeping him close to her even though she outwardly wants nothing to do with him. Children do need to read about others in similar straits when something as devastating as divorce occurs in the family. However, some of these situations are contrived and many lack the depth needed to make readers really care about Cassie. The story meanders a great deal, trying to include too much, and in so doing, is not successful.
Dot Minzer, North Barrington School, Barrington, ILCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist Gr. 5-8. Eleven-year-old Cassie has always been her father's pet. But now that he has announced that he wants a divorce from her mother and is moving to Kentucky to marry and practice law with his young law partner, Cassie is left feeling angry, miserable, and confused. She resolves that she, her flaky mother, and her teenage sister can get along just fine without men and that No Boys Allowed will be the house motto. Bitter, she throws out all her father's abandoned belongings but finds she is unable to toss his boyhood stamp album. Secretly completing the album helps her deal with her confused feelings. And when her great-uncle Harry moves in to recover from a heart attack, she discovers that not all men will let you down. The selfish father and divorce situation are somewhat stereotypical, and the story is not always evenly told, but the emotions are vivid and ring true. Readers will identify with Cassie, a contemporary child of divorce struggling to accept the new reality of her changed family.
Annie Ayres --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Kirkus Reviews When, by page 15, Cassie decides to keep her father's stamp collection even though she's angrily throwing out all his other possessions, any suspense as to the outcome of this novel of divorce's aftermath is effectively void. At 11, Cassie takes her father's actions (including his upcoming marriage) hard, invoking a ``no boys'' rule to which she wants her older sister and mother to adhere. She fights with best friend Bob (one-note and too wise, and by taking the adults' side, he gives Cassie plenty of new reasons to dislike men) and is grudging about the arrival of great-uncle Harry, who moves in to recuperate from a heart attack. While her mother gets a job and becomes more assertive, Cassie gets busy collecting stamps and working a paper route; by the last page, she's ready to mail her father a conciliatory letter. Cassie's clich‚-ridden narration offers few insights (``I started to sob deep, wrenching sobs as I mourned the loss of my father''--but she's happy enough next day to make dates with newly introduced characters). A slick journey through well- traveled, much-abused territory; it's hard to care about Cassie's superficially reported woes. (Fiction. 10-12) --
Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
