Out of the Dark
A Cultural, Young Adult, Canada book. Cross-posted from my blog where there's more information on where I got my copy and links and everything.(2.5)I'm...
Faced with the tragic loss of his mother, Ben Elliot is forced into a move he hates. He has had to give up his home and friends in the city to move with his father and younger brother to the tiny village of Ship Cove on Newfoundland's isolated northern peninsula.The only thing that makes the place bearable is its nearness to the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, where he finds comfort in the ancient myths and sagas his mother loved. He also revives his childhood game of imagining he is Tor,...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 185 pages
- ISBN: 9780888992628 / 888992629
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I was surprised by the poignancy of this book. The plot summary doesn't really give much away - I sort of thought the main character would end up traveling to the past and meet Vikings and stuff, but it turned out a lot different. It's a really great insight into dealing with grief and with isolation, with changes and coming of age,... Cross-posted from my blog where there's more information on where I got my copy and links and everything.(2.5)I'm a little conflicted about this. The writing is really quite good. The Newfoundland setting isn't something I run into a lot in books, and it's vibrant and wonderful. Basically, the only thing that I really didn't like was...
