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A carregar... Taking Care of Terrific (original 1983; edição 1984)por Lois Lowry (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I read this at the same time that I read Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey and Father's Arcane Daughter by E.L. Konigsburg. They are all about an outsider coming into a family and making changes for the good: in other words, they are a subset of Elijah stories about families. This story is a bit pat---breaking the rules works here and and people may not be as poor as they seem. Most of the action is in Boston's Public Garden; the swan boats play an important part. Enid, who would prefer to be known as Cynthia, babysits for a four-year-old boy whose mother is overly protective. They break her rules, have good adventures, learn something about the homeless (if you treat people as if they don't matter then these people come to believe they don't and vice versa). SPOILER: The one thing that was, unfortunately, absolutely true to life was that when the police come across 20 bag ladies, two teenagers, a four-year-old, and a Black man all doing something illegal, the only one they handcuff is the Black man, who like Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is a Harvard professor. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Taking her overprotected young charge to the public park to broaden his horizons, fourteen-year-old baby sitter Enid enjoys unexpected friendships with a black saxophonist and a bag lady until she is charged with kidnapping. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Enid is super sarcastic, and sometimes this made me laugh. She doesn't like her name and picks a new one. So does the little boy she's babysitting, and this is where the book's title comes from. I thought that was kind of clever. Lowry wrote an incredibly true to life character in the horrid Wilma Sandroff--there's parents like that everywhere, who act that way, and for some bizarre reason, they often become family and child therapists. Their kids really do hate them and have active plans to flee. I didn't like Seth. I kept reading because the narrative voice was so engaging, and I wanted to learn if the scene I liked so much as a kid would still resonate with me as an adult. It didn't. I finished the book and neatened some of my apartment, trying to figure my thoughts. This was clearly intended as popcorn reading, even for kids. It was supposed to be warm and fuzzy. Instead, marginalized groups and different events are treated very lightly. Mostly, I feel apathy. I wanted this to be different than it turned out. ( )