Rosemary's comments
(member since Sep 22, 2007)
Rosemary's comments from the Young Adult Fiction! group.
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The Ornament Tree by Jean Thesman is a beautiful, hopeful novel. The main character is a 14-year-old girl, and a young blind veteran also plays an important role.
Peeling the Onion by Wendy Orr is wonderful, too, and could spark some good discussion on what the readers see as their own essential selves.
Enjoy your book club!
I love THE ORNAMENT TREE by Jean Thesman!
When my children were all at home, we read aloud long after they could each read to themselves. My girls and I especially enjoyed Joan Lowery Nixon's YA mysteries and historicals (The Ellis Island trilogy, the Orphan Train quartet, etc.). I had the pleasure of getting to know Joan through a writing group in Houston, and one day took my daughters out of school to have lunch with one of their favorite authors. I also wrote a profile article about Joan for Mystery Scene Magazine. A few months before the article was to run, Joan died of cancer, and MSM ran the article as a tribute to her fine work. She was committed to creating heroines who figure a way out of their problems. I felt her influence when writing my first YA, and still appreciate the way her many novels entertain and empower young readers.
