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Ida B: Summary and book reviews of Ida B by Katherine Hannigan, plus links to an excerpt from Ida B and a biography of Katherine Hannigan.
Ida B and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
by
Katherine Hannigan
Hardcover: Aug 2004,
256 pages.
Paperback: Jan 2007,
256 pages.
What do you do when your life goes from righter than right to a million miles
beyond wrong?
Try to scare away the new neighbors with signs and posters that warn
things like "Typhoons Known to Occur Here -- Water Rats Abound."
Avoid eye contact and word contact, with Mama and Daddy in particular.
Stay away from the orchard and the brook and the old tree and anything
else that reminds you of how good things used to be.
Put together the best plan you've ever created to get things back to
just-about-perfect again.
Book Reviews
BookBrowse
The story did not resonate with the adults or children (aged 10 & 12) in our family. Full Review (members only, 637 words).
Booklist - Illene Cooper
Starred Review. Sometimes Ida's fourth-grade, first-person
voice sounds like Junie B. Jones with a linguistic bent gone wild, but it's
definitely unique, and Ida's ability to articulate her feelings will warm
children, who will understand just what she's talking about. Gr. 4-6.
Kirkus Reviews
If the ending is a predictable reconciliation, this preternaturally sensitive and precocious child reaches it, not through the intervention of supportive adults, but through the puzzling out of her own difficulties - even
after many false starts. A poignant, affirming, and often funny debut from a
promising new author. (Fiction. 9-12).
Publishers Weekly
This insightful, seemingly intuitive first novel digs deep inside the soul of
9-year-old narrator Ida B Applewood....Hannigan shows a remarkable understanding of a stubborn
child's perspective in her honest, poignant portrayal of loss and rebirth. Ages
9-up.
Children's Literature - Joan Kindig, Ph.D.
Beautifully told, this first
novel is filled with remarkable characters and the story is one of growth and
adaptation. Seeing how Ida B deals with all of this is worth the price of
admission. Ages 7 to 10.
School Library Journal - Faith Brautigam
Gr 4-6-With just the right amount of tension in the plot, a spot-on grasp of human emotions, and Ida B's delightful turns of phrase, this book begs to be read aloud. Regardless of how tight the budget, don't pass
it up.
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The Postmistress is an unforgettable tale of the secrets we must bear, or bury. It is about what happens to love during wartime, when those we cherish leave. And how every story-of love or war-is about looking left when we should have been looking right.
Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus.
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