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Cute and fun, but Also quite sad at times. As an older reader, I wanted more depth to this, more questions answered, but I can see where she had to pull back a little for the sake of the target audience. And the main characters just wouldn't have been the same had they been older. I just adored Piper, and her parents, and all the kids at the "school".
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I really disliked this book. It's easy to make adults the bad guys and revel in the suffering children must endure at their hands. But I'm an adult and I like it when adults have interesting personalities beyond being a villain. Also, I'm not sure if I'm just biased against country dialect, but I found the prose style to be really patronizing and inauthentic. It seemed like the author took pleasure in the amount of cliches she could include.
I'm sure there are plenty of 10-year-olds who liked th ...more
I'm sure there are plenty of 10-year-olds who liked th ...more
Too much like The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy mixed with some mutant x-children for my liking; Hidden Talents is much better. Kids may like it more than I.
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This is like a cross between X-men and Anne of Green Gables, but in a very good way. :)
Piper McCloud is born to God-fearing parents who have come from generations of folk who always have done things the same way and see no reason to change. Piper turns their lives upside down when she starts to float as a baby. They are terrified that someone will find out, and with good reason--the live in a gossipy, close-minded community. After Piper teaches herself to fly, her parents tell her to stay on the ...more
Piper McCloud is born to God-fearing parents who have come from generations of folk who always have done things the same way and see no reason to change. Piper turns their lives upside down when she starts to float as a baby. They are terrified that someone will find out, and with good reason--the live in a gossipy, close-minded community. After Piper teaches herself to fly, her parents tell her to stay on the ...more
There seemed to have been three parts, none of which merged well with the others. The first part was in the country, and everyone had a double name, each name starting with the same letter (Millie Mae, Sally Sue, etc.), and nobody seemed to have been very nice at all (including parent-child relationships). The second part was Piper's getting acclimatized to her new school, which was kinda creepy, and again, nobody seemed to want to be nice. Then, suddenly, in the third part, there's a definite g
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The young backwoods farm girl Piper has the ability to fly.
I enjoyed this more than Patterson's Maximum Ride. ...more
I enjoyed this more than Patterson's Maximum Ride. ...more
William Hooks wrote a children's book with the same title, about a girl who could fly and wanted to be accepted by the local children. I used to dream I could fly quite easily, and couldn't understand why others couldn't. So of course I want to read this book!
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Oct 20, 2008
Tara
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Feb 03, 2009
Sara ♥
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Nov 11, 2010
Lisa Vegan
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May 10, 2011
Kerry (The Roaming Librarian) O'Donnell
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