The Heart is Big Enough
Five Stories for Older Kids
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
Publisher Description
"Nature plays a thrilling role in these five short stories about preteens who reach beyond age and disability and prejudice... In all the stories, the excitement is grounded in hard work, biological fact, and physical particularity...The human connections are natural, too: edgy, sometimes difficult, nurturing, growing..."—Booklist
“Rosen has written five short stories about protagonists on the cusp of adolescence in tales that are honest, captivating, and occasionally inspiring...Rosen's message is uniformly empowering: Even in the face of disease, divorce, or disability, the human heart is truly big enough.—Kirkus Reviews
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Nature is used as a connecting line between isolated individuals as Rosen (Elijah's Angel) integrates biological images (sea mammals, fossils, hybrid flowers, stray morning glories) in five upbeat stories featuring sensitive middle-schoolers. Spending the summer with her grandmother, Frayda ends up pruning the neglected garden at the group home next door and gets to know a resident who everyone on the block assumes is crazy. Working side by side with the woman and sharing her grandmother's tips on raising vegetables, Frayda recognizes how prejudice fuels misconceptions. A common interest in plant life also brings together the young narrator of "Juggling" and his slightly eccentric, elderly neighbor, the owner of a parakeet, fish and 420 African violets. When Mrs. Sams is hospitalized with a broken hip during a trip to Australia, Jon expresses his affection and concern by meticulously tending her flowers and pets. The ocean plays a key role in the three remaining stories. While making discoveries about science and themselves, Rosen's young protagonists learn to open their hearts. Ages 9-up.
