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From: Tessa Michaelson <tmichaelson>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:16:25 -0500
Fourteen year old Sym, short for Symone, from Geraldine McCaughrean's The White Darkness continues to be a presence in the literary corner of my mind.
Her struggle to reconcile harsh and dangerous realities with her imaginative inner world pulled me like no other book has in a long time. While the external plot of the story has its own intensity, Sym's internal world was just as involved--especially her obsession with arctic explorer Titus Oates. Sym is a character who brings survival tactics, and mindset, to a whole different level.
Tessa
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:16:25 -0500
Fourteen year old Sym, short for Symone, from Geraldine McCaughrean's The White Darkness continues to be a presence in the literary corner of my mind.
Her struggle to reconcile harsh and dangerous realities with her imaginative inner world pulled me like no other book has in a long time. While the external plot of the story has its own intensity, Sym's internal world was just as involved--especially her obsession with arctic explorer Titus Oates. Sym is a character who brings survival tactics, and mindset, to a whole different level.
Tessa
-- Tessa Michaelson, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St Madison, WI 53706 Phone: 608-890-1332 Podcast: 712-318-9988 FAX: 608-262-4933 tmichaelson at education.wisc.edu http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/podcasts/podcasts.aspReceived on Wed 17 Jun 2009 04:16:25 PM CDT
