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Summary: Heaven Eyes, David Almond, K. Nam, Period 3
Review: ...BR> I liked this book beacause it was a great fantasy. This book combined fantasy with the real world. One of my favorite Quotes was "He'll bloody kill us". I like this quote because it gives you a scared feeling. It also shows that January had great fear of Grampa.
Another reason why i like this book was because it felt real when you read it. It made me feel like i was in the story. The other Quote I liked from this book was "Her eyes beseeched me". I liked this Quote because it showed that Heaven Eyes was looking at Erin to see if she was trustable. It was also a big part of this story.
My favorite part of this book is when Erin, January, and mouse meet Heaven Eyes. I like this part because Heaven Eyes is different from the children but they meet eachother and befriends eachother. This book was adventurous. It was different from the other books I have read before, but was enjoyable. I had a great time reading this book.
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Summary: Lovely....
Review: Beautiful. David Almond just gets better and better. In the last half of the book I used an entire large box of tissues- and it wasn't even sad. I wept because there was so much emotion, so much meaning. Deep in a perfect reality is where it takes place, where time is slow and each little thing means so much. This is a book that cannot be easily put into neat little plot categories, and it is all the better for that. The relationships between the characters are perfection. There is a deep emotional, psychological, and, it seems, nearly sexual connection between the characters. By sexual I mean a deep bond, love beyond friendship kept in innocence. None of the characters touch each other, however, or say or do things that would lead you to believe they were physically in love. This is because the love needs to transcend gender and the act of sex, which would seem shallow and out of place. Don't just read this book flatly, let the book take you in. Spend time in each moment and reverie. And remember your box of tissues.
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Summary: EXCITEMENT AND DRAMA IN THIS READING!
Review: Gifted Broadway, film and television actress Amanda Plummer brings excitement and drama to her reading of this imaginative tale. Erin and January have run away from the children's home before; they're both adventuresome and brave for ones so young. But this escape takes a frightening turn when they find themselves afloat on a deep, dark river, carried by powerful currents until they find a one-of-a-kind girl called Heaven Eyes. Now, not only does Heaven Eyes have a strange appearance - webbed hands and feet - but, she apparently has the ability to help these children find their place in the world. This is a story of courage, confidence, and comradery, a haunting narrative not easily forgotten.
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Summary: Heaven Eyes
Review: Heaven Eyes is a complex novel that examines the emotions experienced by a group of kids who run away from a children's home. Erin, January, and Mouse are the three main children from the children's home, Whitegates. These three children have been lefted at this home by their parents, in the care of Maureen, the social worker. Maureen believes that these children are damaged and without hope of surviving in the world. These children carry with them memories of their former lives, their "treasures," and this gives them a chance from which to develop has individuals.
Erin and January have a very strong friendship. Erin and January have always run away together, but have always returned safely. Erin, January, and Mouse decided to run away by floating downstream on a raft that January built. Little did they know that they would be washed up on the soft mud of Black Middens. The children were rescued by the ghosts Heaven Eyes and Grampa. Heaven Eyes tells the children that she was rescued from the mud years ago and by Grampa and that he was her caretaker. Grampa has a great desire to keep Heaven Eyes with him, which causes him to put the lives of other in danger. Everynight, Grampa digs in the mud of the Black Middens hoping to find treasures that will tell the story of Heaven Eyes' past. As time goes on, one night Grampa found the treasures to Heaven Eyes past. It was not long after the treasures were found when Grampa died. As a result of Grampa's death, the children decided to take Heaven Eyes back to Whitegates with them to live. When they arrived at Whitegates everyone was so happy to see them and also the friend that they brought back with them.
Heaven Eyes is a story about love and recovery as well as loss. This is a true literacy fiction for a younger audience. This book may be a little hard for young children (4th-6th graders) to understand, but a 7th grader should be able to understand it as well as enjoy it. This book was very interesting to us and we highly recommend it to those who have not read it.
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Summary: A GREAT book by David Almond!!!
Review: Heaven Eyes was a good book. David Almond did a fantastic job on writing this novel about orphan children who are mad at the world and think that nothing is right. It all starts when Erin Law, January, and Mouse take off from the orphanage on a raft that January made. Maureen, the social worker at Whitegates always told them that they were damaged children without hope of surviving in the world. They were going to float on the raft all the way down the river, but something terrible happened! They got stuck in the "Black Middens" where they meet Heaven Eyes. Heaven Eyes is a curious girl who thinks that Erin is her sister and Mouse and January are her brothers. She takes them to her home, which is a warehouse where magazines and newspapers used to be made, but all the kids are frightened by the way she looks. Her fingers and toes have webs between them, and she's a pale white color...>Erin played the role of a gutsy, sensitive, curious girl. Mouse played the role of a shy but fearless and stunning character, and January, was strong and very hard working.
I liked this book a lot, I would give it 4 stars ****! Anyone who enjoys adventure books or just exciting books that you can't put down because you need to know what will happen next will really enjoy this one!
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Summary: a good book
Review: i enjoyed this book, however, parts of the book made me a bit bored. when 3 kids and a mouse 'runaway,' downstream, their raft gets stuck and they meet Heaven Eyes and her grandfather. as the author, maybe David Almond could have cut certain bis and added something a bit more exciting.
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Summary: I Hated This Book
Review: I have never read a book I've disliked more. I was assigned to read it and give a book review for the rest of the staff. That made me doubly annoyed because I would have put it down and forgotton it after the first two chapers. Depressing from the start it's about children in an orphanage who are angry at the world. Yes, the reasons why are given, but not devoloped to any solution. In fact, I was left thinking they were a bunch of whiners. And before you flip your lids, I was once a foster kid. An exciting adventure looms, they take a raft trip down the river. They get stuck in the mud and things get weird. Dead bodies coming to life, old men who are sane one moment and trying to kill the orphans the next. An interesting little girl named Heaven Eyes those poses all kinds of questions that never get answered. The to top it all off, one of the orphans has a "feeling" something is going to happen. Low and behold the mother he's never seen, who abondoned him on the door step of a hospital 11 years ago shows up and they know each other immediately. There are too many wonderful books to read. Don't waste your time on this one. If you want to read about orphans read Lemony Snicket. I wanted to give 0 (zero)stars but was forced to give it one by the book review program.
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Summary: I Hated This Book
Review: I have never read a book I've disliked more. I was assigned to read it and give a book review for the rest of the staff. That made me doubly annoyed because I would have put it down and forgotton it after the first two chapers. Depressing from the start it's about children in an orphanage who are angry at the world. Yes, the reasons why are given, but not devoloped to any solution. In fact, I was left thinking they were a bunch of whiners. And before you flip your lids, I was once a foster kid. An exciting adventure looms, they take a raft trip down the river. They get stuck in the mud and things get weird. Dead bodies coming to life, old men who are sane one moment and trying to kill the orphans the next. An interesting little girl named Heaven Eyes those poses all kinds of questions that never get answered. The to top it all off, one of the orphans has a "feeling" something is going to happen. Low and behold the mother he's never seen, who abondoned him on the door step of a hospital 11 years ago shows up and they know each other immediately. There are too many wonderful books to read. Don't waste your time on this one. If you want to read about orphans read Lemony Snicket. I wanted to give 0 (zero)stars but was forced to give it one by the book review program.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: I just finished this book today! It was an exellent book! To me this book was suspence full and i read it really cast because of that i was glad when the book was over cause i knew what happened but i was also sad that this great adventure came to a stop. I think that you should read this spectacular fantasy!
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Summary: The Best book by far
Review: I think this is one of the best books I have read ever. It is a great story and I love the way they discover the girl Heaven Eyes. This book is great and it is hard for me to imagine someone not liking it. David Almond is by far one of the best Authors I have ever read. His books are so good and not like anything I have read before. The Story is a mostly realistic enviroment but one element is added that is not real. (that being Heaven Eyes) It is about 2 kids that run away from where they lived, a center for 'damaged' children. This time they take a raft and float down the river until they get stuck in the Black Middens, which is a muddy part of the river. A girl with webed hands pulls them out tells them they are her brothers and sister. When she shows them to her grandpa he says they are not her brothers and sister, That they are ghosts. (which he refers to real people as) Erin Law (the main character) comes to Love Heaven Eyes as her sister and when her Grandpa dies they take her back to the place they live. Heaven learns that she was not just a creature pulled out of the mud, that she had a mum and a dad and 2 brothers too. This is one of the best books I have ever read and I would recomend it to almost any one.
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