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Maureen Crane Wartski

Författare till A Boat to Nowhere

14+ verk 218 medlemmar 4 recensioner 1 favoritmärkta

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Inkluderar namnet: Maureen Wartski

Verk av Maureen Crane Wartski

A Boat to Nowhere (1980) 105 exemplar
A Long Way from Home (Signet) (1735) 25 exemplar
Candle in the Wind (1995) 20 exemplar
The Lake Is on Fire (1981) 12 exemplar
My Brother Is Special (1979) 11 exemplar
Dark Silence (1993) 10 exemplar
Face in My Mirror (1994) 10 exemplar
The Promise (2003) 7 exemplar
My Name Is Nobody (1988) 5 exemplar
Runaway (1996) 2 exemplar
If You Leave Me (1997) 2 exemplar
Belonging 1 exemplar

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1940
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female

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Read and re-read this book about shifting high school friendships and dangerous cliques.
 
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JennyArch | Jul 1, 2014 |
Mai lives in a small village in Viet Nam. They have not been touched by the war and really have no idea what's going on outside the forest walls. One day, a beggar boy named Kien finds their village. He starts fishing and is really good at it. One day he took Mai and her little brother Loc on the boat. They fell asleep there and ended up in a storm. They were able to get back to the village with the boat in tact but there are already new people there, officials from Viet Nam's new government. They were going to execute Mai and Loc's grandfather for telling the village 'false information.' However, Kien got Grandfather, Mai, and Loc out of the village and onto the boat. They were aiming to go to Thailand. When they reached there, they were completely out of food. However, the village they arrived in would not take anymore 'boat people.' They sent them off again with some food, but not much. They planned to go back to Viet Nam. Grandfather has gotten extremely sick. Fortunately they arrived on Outcast Island, a little island full of boat people who have also escaped the new government. They fed them and gave Grandfather medicine but it was only so they could take their boat themselves and leave them behind. Once they found out, they packed up their stuff and left. On the voyage Grandfather did die. Days after they were found by an American boat who took Mai, Kien, and Loc in. The book ended with them finally safe on this boat.

I liked book. The ending was sort of sad, but it was still enjoyable. It was also quite informative. I'm going to give this 4 and a half stars.
… (mer)
½
 
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DanielaS.B1 | Dec 18, 2013 |
Candle In The Wind is by Maureen Wartski. The story is about a 15 year old Japanese American girl named Terri Mizuno whose brother, Harris Mizuno was shot dead by an elderly white man. The man shot Harris because he mistakened him for an intruder when Harris asked to use his phone because his car had stalled. After Harris' death, Terri had to keep her family together and take charge because her family was falling apart in anger and grief over his death. Supremist groups emerged in the town that the story takes place (Whiteriver, Massachusetts) which resulted in an eruption of bigotry, vigilantism, and hatred. One of the supremist groups was the brotherhood of the SAW (a skinhead supremacist group). The SAW launch attacks of vandalism, hate grafitti, and attacks targetted towards Asian families. The second supremist group is the APU (Asian Power through Unity), a militant Asian group formed in retaliation against the SAW. Terri realized that she must reveal the light of understanding and reasoning on Whiteriver and she found help in the form of her grandmother (Obaachan). Obaachan arrived to Whiteriver from Japan. A peace march was organized with the hope of decreasing the amount of violence but the opposite happened when members of the SAW and APU met at Boston Common. It was in this hostile atmosphere that Obaachan spoke to the crowd regarding why hatred and violence are enemies with everyone. She said that her grandson's death is no excuse for hate groups to hurt other people. Terri had an essay about peace and Obaachan urged her to read it to the crowd. It was then realized that violence was not the answer. Terri then understood that Harris' spirit will always be with her and her family and this drew the family closer again.

Candle In The Wind is a great book. It teaches about forgiveness, family, bias, and the negativity of violence and hatred. The book is well written and very emotional. For these reasons, I give the book 5 out of 5 stars. I recommend this bbok to those people who enjoy books that teach many lessons about everyday society.
… (mer)
 
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Chiubaca | Nov 7, 2010 |
As I recall, it was about a boy who is blinded in a car accident in which his parents are killled. He is is sent to live with relatives who decide it would be a good idea to go for a holiday by the lake. He somehow gets caught in a bushfire with their dog as a companion. I can't remember the rest, but it was a bloody good read.
 
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glassofread | Jun 15, 2008 |

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Verk
14
Även av
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Medlemmar
218
Popularitet
#102,474
Betyg
½ 3.6
Recensioner
4
ISBN
34
Favoritmärkt
1

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