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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The prose in this book is very good and honest without being melodramatic. I would definitely recommend it. ( ) 1999’s CLA Young Adult Canadian Book Award winner Alone at Ninety Foot, is a bitter-sweet story of 14-year-old Pamela who struggles to make sense of her mother’s suicide, her father’s loneliness, and her own adolescent emotional confusion amidst the backdrop of Ninety Foot, the gorge at Lynn Canyon Creek Park. Author Holubitsky gives Pamela an authentic introspective voice, filled with the insecurity, longing, and selfishness that plagues young people from puberty and into the adult life. The gorge is a powerful literal and metaphorical stand-in in for the immensity of life that threatens to knock us over at a young age and Holubitsky’s writing conveys this well. Alone at Ninety Foot is real without being overdramatic. Friends, loss, first love, disappointment, grief, and suicide flow out of this excellent novel for young teens. Other notable awards: IODE Violet Downey Book Award Winner; Best Book for Young Adults-American Library Association; New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age; Best Books for Young Adults-teacher Librarian Magazine. Also recommend B. Brenna’s Wild Orchid (2006). no reviews | add a review
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Fourteen-year-old Pamela Collins is struggling to come to terms with her mother's death. Somewhat shy, Pamela is thoughtful, full of passion, often funny and sometimes tearful as she learns to cope with the emotional overload the tragedy has brought to her life. Her favourite things include walking alone in Lynn Canyon Park, the art of Emily Carr and a certain boy with a "wicked grin." At the moment, she dislikes her English teacher, shopping and being singled out for special treatment because of her motherâ??s death. Pamela is tall and slim and mostly uncomfortable with her rapidly changing body. She is unsure of herself and unsure of the loyalty of her frien No library descriptions found. |
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