Half a Chance
by Cynthia Lord
by Cynthia Lord
Format: Hardback
Price: Free - checked out from the school library
Price: Free - checked out from the school library
How I heard about it: it's a William Allen White Award book (I'm taking a break from my list and reading some of the William Allen White Award nominees for Battle of the Books at school)
Basic Premise: Lucy is the new kid...again. This time, it's to a lakeside community in New Hampshire while her photographer father heads off to Arizona on a job. Convinced she will be bored stiff all summer, she discovers that perhaps things aren't what she perceives, if she'll only give them half a chance.
My Take: 6 out of 10 (scale here)
This book was fine. If I taught 4th grade, I would probably have liked it more because I would have thought of specific kids to hand it off to, but because this book was so elementary, I don't have many of those. I did like that the book focused a lot on photography. That is something I don't know much about, so it was interesting to explore through the eyes of this young photographer. I did get to the end of the book and feel a little let down, though. It felt a lot like the book Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, where you get to the end and you're like, "That's it? Really?" When I was a kid, I remember reading William Allen White Award books and being BLOWN AWAY by how amazing they were. Maybe it's because I'm an adult now, but I didn't feel like there was anything particularly special about this book.
This book was fine. If I taught 4th grade, I would probably have liked it more because I would have thought of specific kids to hand it off to, but because this book was so elementary, I don't have many of those. I did like that the book focused a lot on photography. That is something I don't know much about, so it was interesting to explore through the eyes of this young photographer. I did get to the end of the book and feel a little let down, though. It felt a lot like the book Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, where you get to the end and you're like, "That's it? Really?" When I was a kid, I remember reading William Allen White Award books and being BLOWN AWAY by how amazing they were. Maybe it's because I'm an adult now, but I didn't feel like there was anything particularly special about this book.
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