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基本信息·出版社：Scholastic Paperbacks
·页码：176 页
·出版日期：2003年06月
·ISBN：0439193141
·条形码：9780439193146
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：水泡
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Alyssa Reed's life is a mess. Her parents can't stop fighting. Her mother won't stop crying. Alyssa's father has decided to move the family to a new town, and to move himself to a separate apartment. Nobody gave Alyssa a choice. So Alyssa decides to take control. She renames herself Blister and starts fighting back in her own way. Blister will take on her new school with a new identity, a new wardrobe (stolen from her father's girlfriend), and a raw, new attitude that nobody can ignore. Not even the cheerleaders. Look out world -- here comes Blister!
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly The feisty, remarkably resourceful girl who came to Jonah's aid in Jonah the Whale and How He Became Incredibly Famous takes center stage in this heartrending novel. After Alyssa's sister is stillborn, her mother slips into a deep depression and her father moves the family from their farmhouse to a cramped apartment in North Haven, Conn. When her father later tells her that he is moving out of the apartment, the 10-year-old announces that she is replacing her given name with Blister, "Like when your shoes are too tight." At her new school, Blister "assume[s] a role of invented self-confidence," but fails to break into the fifth-grade cliques, despite reassuring her parents that she is making many new friends. On a weekend visit to her father's apartment, the child opens a suitcase stashed under his bed and discovers a cache of women's clothing and jewelry, some of which she takes with her when she leaves. How Blister uses these purloined items to seek revenge on her father and to impress her classmates enhances the poignancy of Shreve's narrative, which offers razor-sharp insight into the mind of this troubled yet resilient heroine. With a tightly woven plot and entirely convincing characters (Blister's supportive and eccentric grandmother is a standout), Shreve again proves herself an inspired and inspiring storyteller. Ages 8-12.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From School Library Journal Gr 4-6-When Alyssa Reed's long-awaited sister is born dead, the 10-year-old hides in the willow tree in the yard. This is only the beginning of her isolation. Her mother is deeply depressed and is briefly institutionalized. Her father, who had been spending more and more time away from the family before the pregnancy, decides to leave, after moving his wife and daughter from their old farmhouse into a small apartment. Alyssa changes her name to Blister, and she sets out to reinvent herself in order to become one of the popular fifth-grade girls at her new school. When she finds a suitcase full of women's clothes and jewelry under her father's bed, she takes them and makes them part of her new image, hoping to force her father to admit to having a girlfriend. Although nothing-even her attempts to make the cheerleading squad-goes according to plan, Blister constantly proves that she is "elastic," and bounces back. Shreve pulls no punches in this all-too-believable story. The sharp, detailed descriptions capture the youngster's every thought and emotion as she realizes the ineffectuality of her parents and struggles to gain some control over her life. Although she takes center stage, all of the characters are perfectly drawn, from her helpless, despondent mother to her eccentric, spirited grandmother, who teaches the child the importance of resilience. While this is definitely not a light, entertaining story, readers will find themselves cheering for a remarkable girl they will not soon forget.
Ashley Larsen, Woodside Library, CA
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist Gr. 4-6. Ally Reed doesn't start out with the name Blister. But after her baby sister is stillborn and her parents' marriage breaks down, she decides she wants to be called after a raw, sore spot that might burst if touched. It's a good time to reinvent herself since she's just moved to a new town and a new school. How and why 10-year-old Blister and her family have moved is the shaky premise on which an otherwise fine book is built. Mrs. Reed has fallen into a depression after the death of her baby. Both she and her husband, whose marriage had been rocky, pinned a lot of their hopes on the baby. Now, for reasons barely explained, Mr. Reed moves his family to a sterile apartment and promptly moves out, with a young girlfriend in the wings. What's more realistic than the setup is Blister's reaction: she's furious, and she stays that way. Her sympathy for her mother is matched by her anger at having to fend for herself, and when she finds out about her father's girlfriend, she steals the woman's clothes from a bag under his bed. Blister's attempts to make a place for herself at school by dressing in the girlfriend's clothes and trying out for cheerleading come across exactly right, as does Blister's disappointment when she doesn't make the squad, even though she's the best. The jazzy cover gives the impression that the book is jollier than it is; in terms of a child's real feelings, this perceptively written novel with memorable characters (Blister's grandmother is an original) gets right to the bone.
Ilene CooperCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
