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119 pp.
| Scholastic |
March, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-439-44384-9$$16.95
(2)
4-6
From her idyllic village home, Green watches as the city across the river is suddenly blown to bits--the city where her family has gone to sell vegetables. Sewing thorns to her clothes and nails to her boots, Green tries to create a shield against grief, against all feeling. Her journey, we know, will be to rediscover the life inside her armor. Hoffman's fairy-tale prose lends moments of lyricism to Green's sympathetic story of rebirth.
Reviewer: Lauren Adams
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2003