A Kindness
by Cynthia Rylant
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Having spent his fifteen years happily alone with his mother, Chip finds his familiar world threatened when she becomes pregnant, refuses to name the father, and confronts him with his own possessiveness.Tags
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Purely an "issue" book, but well-done despite that. Chip is 15 and has a reasonably happy life with his single mother. His mom's an artist, and Chip feels quite responsible for the day-to-day mundane responsibilities of life- and he's good at them. Then his mom gets pregnant and all his order comes crashing down around his ears.
Rylant's dazed, poetical style works very well here, and she does a great job of shifting viewpoints just when you think you have it all figured out. I liked it more than I expected to.
Rylant's dazed, poetical style works very well here, and she does a great job of shifting viewpoints just when you think you have it all figured out. I liked it more than I expected to.
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Cynthia Rylant was born on June 6, 1954 in Hopewell, Virginia. She attended and received degrees at Morris Harvey College, Marshall University, and Kent State University. Rylant worked as an English professor and at the children's department of a public library, where she first discovered her love of children's literature. She has written more show more than 100 children's books in English and Spanish, including works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her novel Missing May won the 1993 Newbery Medal and A Fine White Dust was a 1987 Newbery Honor book. Rylant wrote A Kindness, Soda Jerk, and A Couple of Kooks and Other Stories, which were named as Best Book for Young Adults. When I was Young in the Mountains and The Relatives Came won the Caldecott Award. She has many popular picture books series, including Henry and Mudge, Mr. Putter and Tabby and High-Rise Private Eyes. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Young Adult
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- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PZ7 .R982 .K — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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