Me in the Middle

by Ana Maria Machado

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One day Isabel finds a box in her mother's closet and, inside, a photograph of a girl dressed in old-fashioned clothes. Ten-year-old Bel is enchanted to discover that the girl is her great-grandmother Beatrice, her Bisa Bea, and that she and her great-grandmother look very much alike. Bel convinces her mother to let her borrow the treasured photo promising to look after it carefully. To her dismay, by the time she returns home from school, the picture is missing. But something unusual has show more happened. Suddenly it is as if Bisa Bea is alive inside her, telling Bel what life was like when she was a girl. Bel loves hearing the stories about the old days -- until Bisa Bea starts to tell her how to behave. Bel learns that her great-grandmother lived in a very different time, when girls were expected to be proper young ladies. show less

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A girl finds a photo of her great-grandmother as a child and makes an invisible friend out of it.
This one was strange, and not in a good way, really. It unintentionally read like a sad story about a girl with some form of schizophrenia, and the writing was clunky at best.
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A very intriguing plot: Isabel finds a box. Inside is a photo of what she learns is her great-grandmother. The photo disappears, but Isabel soon discovers that her great-grandmother is living inside her, whispering to her, sharing experiences with her. And then she discovers that another person is also there, her great-granddaughter, whispering to her, sharing experiences with her. A very intriguing plot. A 1001 CBYMRBYGU.
Sweet Early Chapter from 1978, a young girl gets advise from her great grandmother and her great grandchild inside her mind, learning both some manners from a century earlier, as well as some tidbits of a girl's life in the future.
Bel finds a photograph of her great-grandmother and begins to hear her voice. They have fun conversations until her great-grandmother decides to start telling Bel how to behave. Not a story I would read or assign.
A história que este livro conta poderia ter se passado com qualquer pessoa: comvocê, por exemplo. Num livro como este, parece que a história se passa com a gente. Ficamos íntimos das personagens. Temos a impressão de que o que acontece nas páginas do livro acontece conosco. Cada um de nós vive apenas a própria vida, e, lendo histórias, novelas e romances pode fazer de conta que é outra pessoa, que vive outras vidas, pode experimentar outros pontos de vista.
Jul 21, 2022Portuguese (Brazil)

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Ana Maria Machado is the winner of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award.

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Canonical title
Me in the Middle
Original publication date
1982

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Children's Books, Tween
DDC/MDS
028.5Computer science, information & general worksLibrary & information sciencesReading and use of other information mediaReading of young; Juveniles
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PZ7 .M17753Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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½ (3.50)
Languages
7 — English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
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Paper, Ebook
ISBNs
20
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5