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The One-in-a-Million Boy

4.09  ·  Rating details ·  29,332 ratings  ·  4,298 reviews
The story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don't they teach you anything at school?

So says 104-year-old Ona to the 11-year-old boy who's been sent to help her out every Saturday morning. As he refills the bird feeders and tidies the garden shed, Ona tells him about her long life, from first love to second chances. Soon she's confessing secrets she has kept hidde
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Hardcover, 416 pages
Published April 5th 2016 by Headline Review
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Heather Anderson The novel is by no means "devastating." Did we read the same book? It's a rich story about redemption, of finding purpose-- and finding hope, mostly--…moreThe novel is by no means "devastating." Did we read the same book? It's a rich story about redemption, of finding purpose-- and finding hope, mostly-- in the most unusual of circumstances. It's a story about the interconnectedness of life: a boy's death creates this web of human connections that cause several people's lives to become more meaningful. It's absolutely beautiful.(less)
SANDI PRICE I would definitely put this book in the 4.5 star rating it's getting. I would also put it in the same class as The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed out th…moreI would definitely put this book in the 4.5 star rating it's getting. I would also put it in the same class as The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and A Man Called Ove. It's a wonderful story about courage and redemption and acceptance and.... I stayed up way too late a few nights because I just couldn't turn it off. And I cried at the end.(less)

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5rovsvet
Apr 14, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Moram da priznam da sam od ove knjige očekivao malo više. Nije ona loša, ne treba odustati od nje, ali na osnovu sinopsisa koji sam pročitao očekivao sam snažniju priču.

Ako bi trebalo da opišem ovu knjigu u jednoj rečenici rekao bih da je ovo priča o tome kako stariji uče od dece o životu. I mislim da su to najlepši momenti u životu. Učiti od nekoga ko ostaje iza vas, ko je vaš naslednik ili naslednik vašeg sveta.

Glavni junaci su jedan dečak od 11 godina i jedna gospođica od 104 godine. Nažalost
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Luka Pejić
May 12, 2019 rated it it was amazing
4.5

PROČITAJ.

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Par dana već odgađam pisanje recenzije za ovu knjigu. Ne znam što da napišem. Jedno veliko PROČITAJTE, vjerujem, ne bi bilo dovoljno.

Pokušajmo, ako ništa.

Da budem iskren, kad sam tek počeo s čitanjem, bio sam stava hajde-da-te-se-riješim; nisam odlučio da je knjiga loša, ali sam bio uvjeren da je u najboljem slučaju osrednja.

Kako se lijepo zeznuh.

Zašto je ova knjiga tako lijepa? Zašto me je toliko pogodila, utjecala na mene? Ostavila mi svoj pečat na srcu?

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Maja
Dec 05, 2020 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Sara Ristović
Mar 31, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
"Možemo li ponovo zaći u sećanje,da bismo sada videli ono što tada nismo?"
Ona Vitkus,Litvanka, ima 104 godine.
Jedanaestogodišnji dečak koji dolazi da joj pomaže oko kuće i dvorišta je bodri da se prijavi za Ginisovu knjigu rekorda kao najstarija žena sa vozačkom dozvolom. Dečak uz pomoć tonskog zapisa,iz deset delova,počinje da snima njene uspomene i njen život.
Ali... jedne subote dečak neće doći. Umesto dečaka pojaviće se njegov otac, Kvin Porter (mužičar) a par nedelja kasnije i dečakova maj
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Julija
Mar 07, 2020 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Često ljudi za sebe u običnom razgovoru kažu: "Važno mi je da sam dobar čovek."

Važno nam je da to drugi mogu da kažu o nama. Važno nam je da kad jednom odemo odavde, za nas kažu - Bio je dobar čovek. Ali ono što je možda važnije da ne ostane kao pitanje za nama, je: "Da li mu je bilo dobro?"
Da li smo bili dobar čovek prema samom sebi, je možda važnije da se promisli pre nego što se tako nešto o sebi poželi ili kaže.
Da li smo voleli, da li smo umeli, da li smo pokušali, da li smo uradili, da li
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Snežanat
Dec 16, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Dirljiva i topla priča. Volim takve knjige o običnim, a tako neobičnim ljudima, podsetnik da se svuda oko nas svakog dana odvijaju neverovatne priče, iako se možda na prvi pogled ne čini tako.

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Monica Wood is the author of four works of fiction, most recently The One-in-a-Million-Boy, which won a 2017 Nautilus Award (Gold) and the 2017 fiction prize from the New England Society in the City of New York. She also is the author of Any Bitter Thing which spent 21 weeks on the American Booksellers Association extended bestseller list and was named a Book Sense Top Ten pick. Her other fictio ...more

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