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The Flask (2012)

by Nicky Singer(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0007438761 (ISBN13: 9780007438761)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

HarperCollins Children's Books

review 1: Twelve year old Jess is grieving over the loss of her beloved Great Aunt Edie. She is also worrying about the birth of her twin brothers. They are conjoined (Siamese), and everyone is concerned about their future.When Jess is given an old bureau (desk) from Aunt Edie’s, Jess doesn’t want it. She’d rather have the piano Aunt Edie taught her to play beautiful music on together.But when Jess finds a strange glass flask hidden in one of the compartments of the desk, she is sure the swirling colours, baby’s breath breeze and howling noise she sees and hears is somehow linked to her brother’s survival.A beautiful, gentle, magical story about family, growing up and believing in something different
review 2: A poetic and thoughtful story about a sensitive gir... morel who has always been able to see things others don't and carries the hope of miracles and spiritual connections. She finds a mysterious flask in her great aunt's desk which has a powerful link to her newborn twin brothers who were born joined and must be separated-- a surgery that will risk both of their fragile lives. This is a story you won't want to put down and which will stay with you long after the last page is finished. less

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