Written by: Sharon Creech
WOW! What a fun and fast read. Holy toledo. I have never read a book quite like this before, and I absolutely loved it. I enjoyed reading it for a variety of reasons... for starters: Although this may sound silly coming from a senior in college, I felt like I accomplished something really big in a short amount of time. I can see students feeling the same way! I'm not sure how common it is for a student to finish a novel in a day or even finish a novel at all, in general. This in itself may be a huge accomplishment for many children, and in turn may motivate them to pick up another novel and give it a shot.
The poetry format was another reason I enjoy reading this book. The words were written on the page in a way that looked like poetry, however, I didn't read it as poetry. I feel like kids may get caught up in defining poetry by it's appearance. This book does an excellent job in breaking the norm of poems 'looking and sounding' like stereotypical poetry (a new 'sound' is applied to this story).
In conclusion, I also enjoyed the plot of the story. Each page is filled with diary-like entires. However, the audience is only allowed to read the entries written by the writer. There is a second party involved in the story that is responding to the writer's entries and in turn the writer is responding. Due to this I felt as though I was sort of a detective trying to figure out what the writer is responding to. This made the book unique to me. I would highly recommend this book as a read aloud to younger grades, an individual or group read in the middle grades, and as an individual read in j.h./high school/ and beyond. I enjoyed reading this book as a college student and I believe others will enjoy it as well.
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