Dark Starry Morning: Stories of This World and Beyond,Used

Dark Starry Morning: Stories of This World and Beyond,Used

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From Booklist Gr. 5^8. Readers too young for Stephen King will find satisfaction in these six tales in which the encounters with the unknown are beneficent yet still mildly eerie. Isaac wins an important invitational crosscountry meet only to discover his running mate and trainer is a ghost. Cort, a young saxophone player, develops a special relationship with a trapped orca. Even though some of the tales telegraph their outcome, others are tautly woven. Patneaude keeps his action tight and quickly establishes character to provide young readers with interesting, short, vicarious adventures into the mysteries of this world and beyond. Linda WardCallaghan Product Description A collection of six stories by the author of Someone Was Watching follows the lives of young people who enter the unknown, such as Tommy and Eleanor, who take a school bus ride to the verge of eternity. From School Library Journal Grade 68?Patneaude's curious collection of six short stories set mostly in the Pacific Northwest falls a little short of Twilight Zone eeriness (two selections have no supernatural elements at all), but still includes enough of those elements to make some of the tales compelling, especially to hi/lo readers. Each tale presents a gentle, wistful search for a perfect world free of real?or imagined?monsters. Most of the protagonists are juniorhigh students; each narrator chronicles a special event that helped him or her get through a tough adolescent time. Plots revolve around problems such as divorce, moving into a new house, a dying relative, saving the whales, and confronting bedroom fears. Jimi Hendrix, a spaceship, a victim of racism, a ghostly runner, and an alterego clown all play roles in these stories that occasionally flirt with sentimentality. On the whole, a mixed bag.?John Sigwald, Unger Memorial Library, Plainview, TXCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review This fine collection deserves ongoing mention as an excellent and startlingly diverse gathering of semisupernatural tales. The line between fantasy and science fiction is lightly crossed time and again as young protagonists journey outside their familiar worlds and are forced to make important lifechanging decisions. Midwest Book Review About the Author David Patneaude is an Albert Whitman author.

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