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The Day My Mother Left
by
James Prosek
Jeremy's whole life changed the day his mother left.
When his mother leaves with the father of his worst enemy at school, nine-year-old Jeremy seeks to make sense of her abandonment. He throws himself into recreating the Book of Birds, a collection of drawings that his mother took with her on the day she left. While his father fights his own depression and his sister distan...more
When his mother leaves with the father of his worst enemy at school, nine-year-old Jeremy seeks to make sense of her abandonment. He throws himself into recreating the Book of Birds, a collection of drawings that his mother took with her on the day she left. While his father fights his own depression and his sister distan...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
March 10th 2009
by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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This is a very lovely and well written book from the point of view of a nine year old boy whose mother has just left their family for another man. The style was very realistic, however, there isn't much plot action, there's a lot of rambling about his feelings. Also it's quite depressing. It's illustrated...He draws these birds, but once his mom leaves he draws these weird birds with no eyes. While I really enjoyed it, I guess what I'm saying is I think it would take a special type of child to a...more
May 04, 2008
Jennifer Wardrip
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Reviewed by Jeremey for TeensReadToo.com
Jeremy's mother has often been disappearing for hours at a time, but on a Sunday afternoon all truths are told.
His mother has found a new love - the father of Jeremy's enemy at school and on the baseball field. A fight occurs between Jeremy's mother and father. His mother leaves, and she takes everything with her - including Jeremy's Book of Birds that he had been illustrating himself.
No one can believe that she left. Especially Jeremy. He feels abandone...more
Jeremy's mother has often been disappearing for hours at a time, but on a Sunday afternoon all truths are told.
His mother has found a new love - the father of Jeremy's enemy at school and on the baseball field. A fight occurs between Jeremy's mother and father. His mother leaves, and she takes everything with her - including Jeremy's Book of Birds that he had been illustrating himself.
No one can believe that she left. Especially Jeremy. He feels abandone...more
This is an honest book, from the viewpoint of a young boy about his mother leaving. Other topics like death and sexuality come up. This might be helpful for children who don't understand that their parents are sick (psychologically) and can't raise them. The scene that was sensual was brief and probably appropriate for what some unsupervised 10-13 year olds experience depending on how their family raises them. The audio book was a good recording.
Jul 03, 2010
Laura
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3 of 5 stars
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Kids dealing with divorce
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This book was just meh for me. The main character is a 10 year-old boy whose mother left the family for another man. He copes with the divorce by drawing and painting, mostly birds, which is what interested me in the novel. Evidently this book was semi-autobiographical for the author.
Prosek tells a moving tale about a boy coping with his feelings of abandonment after his mother leaves and his parents divorce. Although it's a YA novel I think this book can be enjoyed by readers of all ages.
Closer to three stars but I disliked the characters enough to only give two. I seriously wanted to slap both parents throughout most of the book.
i find this book very interesting, this book! It has suspense and very interesting at the beginning. I really recommend you this book!
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This book was so stilted and stylistically weird, that I only got through about 30 pages. Done!
Lovely YA book, great drawings. Another boy-on-cusp-of-adolescence, coming-of-age book (seemed to be a theme for me in 2007). Seems like a thinly disguised autobiography. Young Jeremy's mother leaves the family for another man and for three years, he doesn't know where she is. Turns out (you're not going to read it, so this won't ruin anything) the man she runs off with is the father of Jeremy's most hated bully classmate. Yeah, that's really nice, Mom. Jeremy finds solace in nature and in drawi...more
This book is amazing it maybe sad by its still awsome. READ IT JUST READ IT!!!
I really just felt like this was a nothing book. Nothing happened...
Read in 6th grade, SO good! pretty sad,, but exelent read!
A poignant and realistic look at divorce.
really good book for artists.
This book was so very sad
A book written for young children to read-lots of smoking (chain) and a raft of adults we wouldn't want as our mentors! It is realistic reading for way too many children. I like that art helps the boy survive. When I was a child I liked books that helped me escape my life-not ones that made me relive it, so I wonder how kids like this one?
I can't find fault with the writing here and I admired the paintings especially as related to the text. This was just so emotionally sad though that I found it draining and I spent a good portion of the book nervous for this character.
i learned that this book talks about how you should treasure someone
I cried. That's all that needs to be said. It was beautiful.
Sad. But good. I loved it.
It was crummy
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