[LM_NET] ELEM/MS: BOOK REVIEW: Greetings from Nowhere by Barbara O'Connor

[Toni Buzzeo <tonibuzzeo@TONIBUZZEO.COM>]

Greetings from Nowhere by Barbara O'Connor. FSG, 2008. ISBN: 978-0374399375

As this heart-warming novel unfolds in the Smoky Mountains of North 
Carolina, a host of disparate characters' lives collide and are 
changed in deep and meaningful ways as a matter of chance.  In 
chapters told from the perspectives of four of the characters, the 
reader experiences the struggles, beliefs, hopes, and dreams of 
simple people leading complex lives of the spirit. From Aggie, who 
owns the Sleepy Time motel where the story takes place, living with 
the loss of her beloved husband Harold, to Willow, whose mother 
Dorothy has abandoned her, to adopted Loretta, on a trail of memories 
of her birth mother, to Kirby, on his way to a training school for 
problem youth, who only needs to be seen and heard in order for his 
inner light to shine, the characters each call out for understanding 
that comes to them because the mountains provide time and space for 
it to develop.  Gifted author Barbara O'Connor stands back and lets 
her characters lead the way to truth, to hope, to the magic of open 
hearts in the gray-green mountains of North Carolina. [Suggested grades 4-7]


Toni Buzzeo, MA, MLIS <mailto:tonibuzzeo@tonibuzzeo.com>
Maine Library Media Specialist of the Year Emerita
Maine Association of School Libraries Board Member
Buxton, ME 04093
http://www.tonibuzzeo.com
R is for Research, illustrated by Nicole Wong (Upstart 2008) BRAND NEW! 

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