PortadaGruposCharlasMásPanorama actual
Buscar en el sitio
Este sitio utiliza cookies para ofrecer nuestros servicios, mejorar el rendimiento, análisis y (si no estás registrado) publicidad. Al usar LibraryThing reconoces que has leído y comprendido nuestros términos de servicio y política de privacidad. El uso del sitio y de los servicios está sujeto a estas políticas y términos.

Resultados de Google Books

Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.

The Silent Boy (Readers Circle) por Lois…
Cargando...

The Silent Boy (Readers Circle) (edición 2005)

por Lois Lowry

MiembrosReseñasPopularidadValoración promediaMenciones
1,0122820,280 (3.74)34
Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
Miembro:merktoast
Título:The Silent Boy (Readers Circle)
Autores:Lois Lowry
Información:Laurel Leaf (2005), Mass Market Paperback, 208 pages
Colecciones:Tu biblioteca
Valoración:
Etiquetas:Chapter Books, Historical Fiction

Información de la obra

The Silent Boy por Lois Lowry

Cargando...

Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará.

Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.

» Ver también 34 menciones

Mostrando 1-5 de 28 (siguiente | mostrar todos)
Really it's 2.5 stars. When is GR going to get with the program and let us do half stars. This wasn't a bad book but it wasn't great. It was very predictable. The foreshadowing was a bit obvious. I wish some of the characters were more richly formed. I liked the idea of taking the old pictures and creating a story for them. It's something I think we all do at times. It's just the story created was a bit simplistic or overplayed. ( )
  MsTera | Oct 10, 2023 |
Poignant story told by Katy, a future doctor, growing up in the early 1900's about a "touched boy" and others she knew. Worthwhile. ( )
  kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |
Another wonderful Lois Lowry story! A quick read, and a little sad but still her wonderful story telling comes through. ( )
  Jen-Lynn | Aug 1, 2022 |
Both prompted and illustrated by a collection of period photographs, this is a short book, but one with a lot of depth to it. It's a skillful depiction of the loss of innocence from the point of view of the one who loses it. Perhaps some of the characters lacked depth; but then perhaps that fits with the restriction implied by having a child as narrator.
  KathleenJowitt | Apr 3, 2020 |
This is a historical fiction book set in the early 1900s and follows Katy Thatcher, a girl who wants to be a doctor like her father. She meets a boy named Jacob who never speaks but has a way with animals and becomes sort of friends with him. However, some town scandal follows and Jacob does something horrible that he felt like was helping his family, but wasn’t.

Silent Boy is an interesting middle grade book because it takes on rather serious subjects. It shows just how difficult it was to live in the 1900s and how dangerous it was to get sick or injured during this time frame. It also sets up how a mentally disabled person would have been treated and what their lives would have been like. It’s a bit dark, but I appreciated it for how genuine the story is and how it tells the straight truth.

Katy is a wonderful main character, and I loved viewing the events through her perspective. While fairly young and a bit naive, she is exceedingly clever and figures out what the adults so often try to hide from her. I loved her relationship with her father and really enjoyed seeing a male figure who encouraged his young daughter’s wit and curiosity, which was likely not common during this time period. Throughout the book, he tries his best to be as truthful as possible with her while also keeping things appropriate for her maturity level.

It’s a rather slow book because it takes its time setting up the time frame, the culture, and the way Katy’s and Jacob’s lives were; however, it’s a fairly short book and easy to get through. I would recommend this for mature middle grade readers, or for a family or classroom readalong to make sure young readers have resources and an adult to help them process the traumatic events that take place. I think it’s a wonderfully interesting concept for a book and enjoyed it a lot.

Also posted on Purple People Readers. ( )
  sedelia | Aug 13, 2019 |
Mostrando 1-5 de 28 (siguiente | mostrar todos)
sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Debes iniciar sesión para editar los datos de Conocimiento Común.
Para más ayuda, consulta la página de ayuda de Conocimiento Común.
Título canónico
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés. Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Título original
Títulos alternativos
Fecha de publicación original
Personas/Personajes
Lugares importantes
Acontecimientos importantes
Películas relacionadas
Epígrafe
Dedicatoria
Primeras palabras
Citas
Últimas palabras
Aviso de desambiguación
Editores de la editorial
Blurbistas
Idioma original
DDC/MDS Canónico
LCC canónico

Referencias a esta obra en fuentes externas.

Wikipedia en inglés (1)

Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.

No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca.

Descripción del libro
Resumen Haiku

Debates activos

Ninguno

Cubiertas populares

Enlaces rápidos

Valoración

Promedio: (3.74)
0.5
1 2
1.5
2 7
2.5 2
3 42
3.5 8
4 38
4.5 9
5 29

¿Eres tú?

Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing.

 

Acerca de | Contactar | LibraryThing.com | Privacidad/Condiciones | Ayuda/Preguntas frecuentes | Blog | Tienda | APIs | TinyCat | Bibliotecas heredadas | Primeros reseñadores | Conocimiento común | 203,186,690 libros! | Barra superior: Siempre visible