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Cargando... All the Way Homepor Patricia Reilly Giff
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In 1941, circumstances bring together Brick, a boy from New York's apple country, and Mariel, a young girl made shy by her bout with polio, and the two make a journey from Brooklyn back to help Brick's elderly neighbors save their apple crop and to help Mariel learn about her past. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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So when a wildfire destroys the orchard, Brick's parents each get temporary jobs in other towns and send him to Brooklyn for a year to live with their friend the nurse.
As soon as Brick arrives, he is plotting how to go back and help the owner of the orchard harvest any apples that survived the fire. And Mariel wants to go back also, to try to find her real mother, who she never saw again after being left at the hospital when she was four years old.
Though Giff's writing and research are fully up to par, the story left me kind of dry. Brick and Mariel's friendship seems to be instantaneous, rather than developing slowly over several chapters. When Mariel finds the answer she was looking for it feels oddly anticlimactic - perhaps because Giff gave more attention to Brick harvesting apples than to Mariel wanting to find her mother.
Not bad, but definitely not one of Giff's best either. ( )