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The Original Ginny Moon (Wheeler Large Print…
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The Original Ginny Moon (Wheeler Large Print Book Series) (urspr publ 2017; utgåvan 2017)

av Benjamin Ludwig (Författare)

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Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager--she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit... different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and moved around to different homes, Ginny has finally found her "forever home"--a safe place with parents who will love and nurture her. This is exactly what all foster kids are hoping for, right? But Ginny has other plans. She'll steal and lie and exploit the good intentions of those who love her--anything it takes to get back what's missing in her life. She'll even try to get herself kidnapped. Told in an extraordinary and wholly original voice, Ginny Moon is at once quirky, charming, heartbreaking, and poignant. It's a story about being an outsider trying to find a place to belong and about making sense of a world that just doesn't seem to add up. Taking you into the mind of a curious and deeply human character, Benjamin Ludwig's novel affirms that fiction has the power to change the way we see the world.… (mer)
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Titel:The Original Ginny Moon (Wheeler Large Print Book Series)
Författare:Benjamin Ludwig (Författare)
Info:Wheeler Publishing Large Print (2017), Edition: Lrg, 503 pages
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Ginny Moon av Benjamin Ludwig (2017)

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Couldn't put this book down but I found it very stressful and a little bit irritating.

I felt terrible for Ginny Moon and feared that even more horrible things were lurking in her past.

Curious how people with a close relationship with a child with autism feel about this. ( )
  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |
I thought this was a YA book, but it turns out it's being marketed to adults (making it a good candidate for a YALSA Alex Award). Told in the voice of 14-year-old Ginny, this has the markings of YA -- particularly the portrayal of very flawed, irritating adults treating kids unfairly. I listened to the audiobook, which made Ginny sound very young. I imagined her as much younger than 14 -- more like 11 or 12. Because of her autism and her traumatic upbringing, Ginny is naïve and literal in some ways, but also streetwise and canny in others. She is a unique and compelling character, for sure.

I was completely drawn into the story and almost ridiculously, viscerally angry at Mara, Ginny's adoptive "forever mom" who suddenly turns into a bitch after she gives birth to Ginny's new "forever sister." I hated Mara for how she treated Ginny, but I was grudgingly sympathetic, too. When you have a new baby, you get very little sleep. And no sleep can make a person terrible. On top of that, I experienced a version of what Mara went through myself. When my daughter was born, all my love for my dog Stanley seemed to evaporate and I irrationally saw him as a threat to my baby's safety and an irritating drain on my energy (which, due to lack of sleep, was already super low). He growled at my daughter a few times and I told my husband we had to find a new family for him, like now. Of course, I was overreacting because I was exhausted and paranoid. So basically I was Mara, but with a dog. Which is different.

I think this would be an excellent pick for book clubs because it raises so many questions about parenthood, adoption, abuse, caretaking, and it doesn't give any easy answers. While things seem to work out for Ginny in the end, it is not entirely comfortable and heartwarming. While I don't think she would harm anyone in her family on purpose, let's not forget Ginny was on the verge of setting the house on fire. The last lines of the book lead us to believe that Ginny will settle into her life. "I don't have to be Negative Ginny if this forever family wants me around..." But there is something a little ominous about the "if" to me. It's like Ginny will always have this potential to make dangerous decisions if she doesn't feel wanted. But isn't that true of all human beings? Don't we all carry a "negative" version of ourselves around? Don't we all have the capacity to hurt each other? And should be we be just as worried that Mara and Brian will hurt Ginny if she can't be what they want her to be? Let's not forget, even though they adopted her and called themselves her "forever parents" it felt like they were trying to get rid of her by giving her to her biological father or to an institution. ( )
  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
It was cute and a unique perspective of course but nothing particularly stood out and I found the parents annoying. ( )
  hellokirsti | Jan 3, 2024 |
Glimpse into the mind of an autistic child. Loved that Grace drank beverages (milk or water) and seeing the rules and rationale she has. ( )
  cathy.lemann | Mar 21, 2023 |
Ginny Moon's story is sweet. She lives with her third set of "Forever Parents", goes to school with Larry who loves to sing and Alison Hill who doesn't like to be rushed. She has a friend named Patrice who has a cat called Agamemnon who likes to sit on her lap. Ginny is approximately 14 years old and wants to know that her Baby Doll is OK. Ginny is Autistic.

Honestly? I have no clue if Ginny has been written as an atypical autistic child. I haven't had any direct experience with one. My knowledge of autism is derived only from TV and Books (and probably movies to) as is most people's. But Ginny seemed real. She seemed, likely. Like she is someone who really exists and who did all the things she does in the book.

Even if she isn't accurate (and what is accurate when it comes to autism anyway) I challenge anyone to read this book and then say they weren't captivated.

Ginny kept me reading right until the end. I'm so glad I read her story. ( )
  theBookDevourer211 | Jan 27, 2023 |
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Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager--she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit... different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and moved around to different homes, Ginny has finally found her "forever home"--a safe place with parents who will love and nurture her. This is exactly what all foster kids are hoping for, right? But Ginny has other plans. She'll steal and lie and exploit the good intentions of those who love her--anything it takes to get back what's missing in her life. She'll even try to get herself kidnapped. Told in an extraordinary and wholly original voice, Ginny Moon is at once quirky, charming, heartbreaking, and poignant. It's a story about being an outsider trying to find a place to belong and about making sense of a world that just doesn't seem to add up. Taking you into the mind of a curious and deeply human character, Benjamin Ludwig's novel affirms that fiction has the power to change the way we see the world.

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