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Cargando... Unstoppable Octobia Maypor Sharon Flake
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Natasha read it and loved it and passed it on to me. And I'm glad she did. It took me a little while to get used to Octobia's voice: her sentences are often short, and given her fantastic imagination it can sometimes be a challenge to figure out what she's saying. But those are smallish quibbles about a fantastic book. Octobia is living in her aunt's boarding house where she is allowed rather more freedom than her own parents are willing to give her after a catastrophic heart problem. She is immersed in Nancy Drew and the aftermath of WWII, and caught up in the struggles for rights for colored people and women. On top of that, she's trying to solve the mystery of the man upstairs who doesn't sleep at night and may be a vampire. The entire cast is struggling against stereotypes and discrimination of various kinds, and most are also dealing with the traumas suffered during the war. There is a lot going on here, but the reader doesn't have to take it all on board: the book works well as a conventional sort of intrepid child story, in which villains are unmasked. Highly recommended to both the middle school audience and to older readers who will enjoy the realistic portrayal of the 50s. Library copy. Octobia May is a 10-year old black girl living in post World War ll Pittsburg. She lives with her Aunt Shuma in a boarding house full of a variety of boarders. From the beginning she is convinced that Mr. Davenport, one of the most recent, very mysterious boarders, is a vampire. She cannot help spying on him and opening up the can of secret worms he is hiding. Octobia May reminds me much of Bud, Not Buddy, with his imaginative adventures and his quest to discover his true identity. This is a story of much more than the mystery Octobia May uncovers; it is also the story of self-discovery. Octobia May never falters in her own belief of herself, and she helps others along the way realize that who she is is just who she is meant to be. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In 1953 ten-year-old Octobia May lives in her Aunt's boarding house in the South, surrounded by an African American community which has its own secrets and internal racism, and spends her days wondering if Mr. Davenport in room 204 is really a vampire--or something else entirely. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I particularly like the narrator of the audiobook, Bahni Turpin, who does a fabulous job with a variety of characters, from young Octobia to an Irish cop. The story itself is sometimes episodic but also has this mystery of Mr. Davenport threaded throughout, which made it include an awful lot and became hard for me to follow on audio. There are details I picked up on early as an adult that wouldn't have been so obvious to a young reader, such as "passing." Other times, I recognize I would've liked it better reading it as a child - the ending is completely over the top and I couldn't quite shut off my analytical brain and just enjoy the adventure. ( )