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Cargando... White House Autumnpor Ellen Emerson White
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I loved the first book in this series when I read it as a kid, but this one didn't do much for me. I also wasn't crazy about the "updating" - I liked 80's Meg! ( ) I never read a series out of order, but LONG LIVE THE QUEEN was the first I found of this series (the library didn't own the rest at the time). I eventually tracked down books one and two, but LONG LIVE THE QUEEN is an impossible act to follow. Good, but unmemorable compared to books three and four. After her mother became the first female President, Meg wonders if her life will ever resemble anything remotely normal. Feeling somewhat like she has a handle on her new school and enjoying a somewhat-normal relationship with cutieboy Josh (even if they can never truly be alone, what with the requisite security agents following her every move), Meg is hoping to simply enjoy her junior year. But it's hard to just be a teenager when the media wants to know every detail of your private life and pictures of her keep cropping up of her doing the most mundane things. Meg is trying to keep everything together when a shocking and horrible attack is made on her mother and Meg and her family are forced to turn to each other in their private, yet very public, grief.If I had simply read the synopsis of this novel, I would have been more than a little skeptical. I mean: female president is attacked - ensuing emotional crisis and shock - trite and overdone right? Just like her other novels, Ellen Emerson White handles this potentially disastrous subject with such careful handling, I couldn't help but be drawn into Meg's family's story. Trust me, this is one of those authors who never does anything half-way: Meg goes through such feelings of anger, shock and pain - all so quintessentially teenage responses but at the same time extremely unique and believable. Each member of her family expresses their grief in different ways and with her dad constantly away from home, it falls to Meg to help keep her younger brothers, Steven and Neal, from falling apart. Leaving Meg unable to fall apart of course. But Meg is more than competent and though it takes everything she's got, she begins to draw closer to her family in ways they never expected.Let's talk cover art for a moment here, shall we? This book is reminiscent of Johannes Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' - an extremely iconic work of the Dutch Renaissance. What I think I like best about this cover is that the cover artist chose to retain the same bright blue and yellow color scheme; a very smart choice since the dark background makes such colors essentially pop off the canvas, forcing the viewer to study her in exceedingly up-close-and-personal detail. I get the sense with the juxtaposition of Meg wearing her Red Sox cap and the iconic earring that Meg herself has become a study in contrasts - her tomboy nature clashing with her idea that she must be elegant and as put together as her mother. Reviewed by Steph for TeensReadToo.com Meg Powers is just a normal teenage girl living in Washington, D.C. -- except for the tiny little fact that her mother is the President of the United States. Meg is actually getting used to living in the big, white house with her parents and two brothers, Steven and Neal. But when a gunman tries to take the life of the President, Meg faces the scary facts about being the First Family. It's up to Meg to comfort her two brothers in between visiting their mother in the hospital and missing their father, who spends all of his time at the hospital, as well. And if that wasn't enough, Meg has to deal with the fact that her boyfriend, Josh, seems to be doing everything wrong. And can her friends really be real if they start acting weird around her because of her mother's accident? Ellen Emerson White writes a compelling sequel about a teenage girl trying to understand the ropes of being the First Daughter. With WHITE HOUSE AUTUMN, the readers see a different side to the first family -- how stressful and scary it is to control security in an uncontrollable world. Meg's been living in the White House for almost a year, and has settled in with friends at school, a spot on the tennis team, and a very kissable boyfriend. Life in the public eye isn't her favourite thing, but her family is doing OK - until an assassin shoots her mother, the President. Meg is thrown back into caring for her younger brothers, while her father is occupied with her critically injured, mother. Watching Meg hold it together for her family was very touching, and through all of her lashing out and her forced maturity, I found it impossible not to fully empathise with her. This is a story of a teenager under unimaginable pressure. I'd give this to fans of the first book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesThe President's Daughter (book 2)
Seventeen-year-old Meg's surging emotions after her mother, the United States President, is shot, threaten her relationship with boyfriend Josh and best friend Beth, but she strives to maintain control to help her father and younger brothers. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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