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Fortune's Magic Farm (2009)

by Suzanne Selfors(Favorite Author)

4.13 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

031601818X (ISBN13: 9780316018180)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

review 1: My eleven year old daughter insisted that I read this, her current favorite book. The story features Isabella, and orphan working in an umbrella factory in a town where it's constantly raining. After an encounter with a remarkable sea creature, Isabella comes to learn that there is more to life than drudgery. Secret after secret unfolds until she finds out her parentage and her destiny.Like other coming-of-age novels featuring young women, the novel roots itself in images of fecundity. It's whimsical and engaging, but part of the denouement borrows a bit too much from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Oh, the anxiety of influence. Nevertheless, I enjoyed tagging along with Isabella as she discovered her gardens and the gardens of her ancestors. And I got to peek into ... morethe heart of my own tender-hearted little girl.
review 2: the first chapter is very depressing. it doesn't get a lot better until midway through, and then the author yanks the rug out from under the reader, back on the bum again. but in typical suzanne selfors fashion, there's a pattern woven throughout that the reader can appreciate, one of hardship but endurance, pain but determination to overcome, despair and then ultimately triumph. my kids (ages 7, 9, 11) loved it and laughed all through the last three chapters. less

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