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Caroline is beautiful, musically gifted, and good; she is the shining star of a small town on the water. The story is told by her twin sister Louise, who is almost sick with jealousy and longing. Louise is not a flawless person, but I loved her just the same: her work-roughened hands, her terrible puns, her puzzlement at her anger when a friend falls in love with her sister. It's a good book about complicated family relationships, and Paterson never pulls back on showing the truth of it. In the
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From everything I have heard and read about this book, I expected to really hate it. And I didn't. Nor did I think it was about what many critical papers have argued, about the younger twin stealing the birthright of the older. It's about perception, pent-up aggression, and cutting off your nose to spite your face. It's about being so angry at something - nothing - that you forget to do things for yourself. It's about being a teenager. Louise is a whiner. But she feels real.
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It took me a while to get into this book and I read it for my Newbery class, but it was wonderful. I loved the lyricism and identified with the frustration that the less favored twin felt.
A wonderful book, highly recommended, especially for fans of "Anne of Green Gables." ...more
A wonderful book, highly recommended, especially for fans of "Anne of Green Gables." ...more
I think I read this in the 90s sometime? I'm not completely sure. At the time I could relate very well to the way the protagonist didn't get along with her sister.
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Never forget the BBC/Wonderworks movie of this with Annette O'Toole as the mom.
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