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Write Before Your Eyes (2008)

by Lisa Williams Kline(Favorite Author)

3.21 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0385735685 (ISBN13: 9780385735681)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Delacorte Books for Young Readers

review 1: Gracie, the middle child in her busy family, is often overlooked and feels powerless, but that changes when she buys an old journal at a yard sale. Gracie quickly discovers that anything she writes in the journal comes true. Her plan to to solve the great problems of the world quickly degenerates into attempts to solve her own difficulties. Unfortunately for Gracie her plans usually carry unforeseen details that make her solutions less than ideal and often create more problems than they solve. Gracie eventually realizes that even without magic, writing has power to change the world. This is a predictable turn on the familiar theme, "Be careful what you wish for, you might get it," but middle school readers will enjoy Gracie's attempts to heal family wounds, help her frien... moreds, and further her own crush.
review 2: Gracie Rawley is the quiet one in the family between her more demanding older sister, Jen, and younger brother, Alex. She buys a faded blue journal at a yard sale and soon discovers everything she writes in it comes true. For someone who always “flew under the radar,” what should she do with her new found power? When she shares the news with her best friend and secret crush, Dylan, he suggests she write about world peace or better yet that he gets to kiss his crush, Lindsay Jacobs after school the next day. Gracie soon discovers that her best intentions go terribly wrong because of her writing. After her brother forgets to study for a science test, she writes that he got an A on his test. The next day he was caught cheating and got a detention. More mishaps occur such as her dad getting his dream job in Atlanta, four hours away and Gracie struggles with the power of her own writing. Kline’s prose is descriptive, engaging, and laugh out funny at times. The premise of the book will capture fans of fantasy novels but some of the allusions to Grace Slick, Jefferson Airplane, and the song White Rabbit will probably go over their heads of the audience for this book. less

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