return to home  
Join   |  Gift   |  Member Login   |  Library Login
BookBrowse Mobile
twitter Bookmark and Share mail to a friend Email
  BookBrowse Review

BookBrowse Reviews If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period: Two worlds collide in one compelling story for children age 12+

If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
by Gennifer Choldenko
Paperback, Apr 2009,
224 pages.
Publication information
Summary and Book Reviews
Read an Excerpt
Reading Guide
Reader Reviews
Author Biography
Author Interview
Books by this Author
Buy This Book
Review
Two smart, lively and complicated twelve year olds, Kirsten McKenna and Walker ("Walk") Jones, take turns narrating this contemporary stand-alone in fresh, memorable and idiosyncratic voices. Choldenko's celebrated and award-winning bestseller, Al Capone Does My Shirts, relied on time and place—Alcatraz in the Capone era—for much of its effect and power. If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period could take place in almost any American private middle school in the suburb of almost any present-day American city. The novel's focus is decidedly internal rather than external, and the reader lives inside twelve year old heads for the duration. But Choldenko's unwavering interior focus isn't gimmickry: it illuminates her young characters' imperfect knowledge of...
Beyond the Book
Eating Disorders

Does Kirsten eat too much and for all the wrong reasons? According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, eating disorders like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating are becoming increasingly prevalent throughout western countries. According to US estimates from the National Institute of Mental Health, between 5-10 million girls and women and 1 million boys and men suffer from eating disorders or other associated dietary conditions. On average, about 0.5 to 3.7% of girls and women develop anorexia nervosa, and about 1.1 to 4.2% develop bulimia nervosa. About 0.5% of those with anorexia die each year as a result of...
This review was originally published in January 2008, and has been updated for the April 2009 paperback release. Click here to go to this issue.
Search: Title or Author
Free Newsletters

Online Book Club
More about
Next to Love
Join the discussion!

BookBrowse Showcase
visit showcase now!
Advertise Here

First Impressions
Members Recommend:
The Secrets of Mary Bowser
by Lois Leveen
Five Stars
The Voluntourist
by Ken Budd
3.5 Stars
A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar
by Suzanne Joinson
Four Stars
A Simple Murder
by Eleanor Kuhns
Four Stars
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
by Anna Quindlen
4.5 Stars
Afterwards
by Rosamund Lupton
4.5 Stars
more...


Win This Book!
Beneath The Shadows

Beneath the Shadows jacket

A thrilling gothic debut - publishing June 5

Enter To Win Now!

wordplay
Solve this clue:
"S T Pass I T N"

and be entered
to win....
frame top
New Author
Interviews
Isabel Allende
Alice Hoffman
Mark Seal
Charlotte Rogan
frame bottom
HOME Submissions | Advertising | Libraries | Media Inquiries | Reviewers | Contact Us