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Janet Taylor Lisle

Autor(a) de Afternoon of the Elves

21+ Works 4,308 Membros 87 Críticas

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Séries

Obras por Janet Taylor Lisle

Afternoon of the Elves (1989) 1,219 exemplares
The Art of Keeping Cool (2000) 825 exemplares
Black Duck (2006) 751 exemplares
The Lost Flower Children (1999) 280 exemplares
Highway Cats (2008) 216 exemplares
Forest (1993) 197 exemplares
The Lampfish of Twill (1991) 149 exemplares
A Message from the Match Girl (1995) 143 exemplares
The Dancing Cats of Applesap (1984) 99 exemplares
The Gold Dust Letters (1994) 96 exemplares
The Crying Rocks (2005) 78 exemplares
Quicksand Pond (2017) 56 exemplares
Sirens and Spies (1985) 42 exemplares
The Great Dimpole Oak (1987) 38 exemplares

Associated Works

Ribbiting Tales: Original Stories about Frogs (2000) — Contribuidor — 111 exemplares
Second Sight : Stories for a New Millennium (1999) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
Don't Give Up the Ghost: A Book of Ghost Stories (1993) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
Funny You Should Ask (1992) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares

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Gave it 4 stars due to childhood nostalgia, growing up I was a bit of a book nerd (still am obviously) but I remembered this book being one of my childhood favorites. Rereading it now, I can see the issues with this book when it came to scene jumping to another scene out of no where but eventually I got use to it,I suppose that was normal for a children/ young adults book during the 1980’s, who knows really. I still enjoyed the story though and I relate a bit to Sara-Kate’s character a bit even as an adult and I felt sorry for her in the end of the book.… (mais)
 
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clstrifes | 20 outras críticas | Nov 10, 2023 |
In her ragged clothes and oversized boots, Sarah-Kate is a figure of ridicule at school. However, she has a magic elf village in her neglected back yard, as Hillary discovers one day when Sarah-Kate invites her over to see it. The two girls spend the fall "helping" the elves by making tiny improvements to their village, and Hillary hopes, more than anything, to see an elf for herself, if she is careful and quiet and looks deeply at the natural world as Sarah-Kate instructs. Sarah-Kate can be strange and temperamental, but Hillary is completely taken with this new friendship . . . until the day Sarah-Kate disappears.

There are hints of magic to this story, which is what I think I gravitated toward when I read this as a child (I'm pretty certain I read this as a child?), but as an adult it's a darkly bittersweet book about child neglect and a family in need to help. It feels a tiny bit dated now, but there's still the lovely allure of the elf village and the compelling character of Sarah-Kate to give the story its appeal.
… (mais)
 
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foggidawn | 20 outras críticas | Sep 15, 2023 |
 
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vashonpatty | 20 outras críticas | Aug 1, 2023 |
This is almost or maybe is, a horror story. Hannah, a fourth grade girl is fascinated by the neighbor whose backyard abuts hers, which is wild and trash strewn and harbors an elf village. Sara-Kate the neighbor is a ragged difficult girl repeating 5th grade and shunned by the entire school, but Hannah finds something spending time with her tending the elf-village that her well manicured life does not supply. Short, it ends deliberately inconclusively.
½
 
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quondame | 20 outras críticas | Feb 24, 2023 |

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Obras
21
Also by
5
Membros
4,308
Popularidade
#5,826
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
87
ISBN
198
Línguas
6

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