Gloria Skurzynski
Autor/a de The Minstrel in the Tower (Stepping Stone)
Sobre l'autor
Author Gloria Skurzynski was born in Duquesne, Pennsylvania in 1930. She was educated at Carlow University. She writes both fiction and non-fiction books for children and young adults.She is the author of more than sixty books for young readers. In 1992, her work Almost the Real Thing: Simulation mostra'n més in Your High-Tech World won the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award. She writes the National Geographic National Parks series and the Virtual War Chronologs series. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Gloria Skurzynski
This Is Rocket Science: True Stories of the Risk-taking Scientists who Figure Out Ways to Explore Beyond Earth (2010) 41 exemplars
Bionic parts for people: The real story of artificial organs and replacement parts (1978) 10 exemplars
Get the Message: Telecommunications in Your High-Tech World (Your High-Tech World Books) (1993) 6 exemplars
Obres associades
The Word from Weber County. A Centennial Anthology of our Best Writers (1996) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 4, December 1980 — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 6, February 1978 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 20th Century
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Llocs de residència
- Boise, Idaho, USA
- Relacions
- Ferguson, Alane (daughter)
Membres
Converses
A YA/Children's Sci-fi story. Post-apocalyptic, Ender's Game-like novel of children engaged in war . a Name that Book (octubre 2012)
Ressenyes
Fun story about a clever old woman who outwits a tiger and a wolf who want to eat her. The some of the language used to describe the woman and her home are subtly disrespectful--she lives in a "hut", not a "home", for example--and there's not much sign of awareness about Indian culture. The story is supposedly from Indian folklore; it could be a fun one to see retold and illustrated by people who know what they're talking about.
Recommended reading from AFSME Council 2 conference.
Llistes
Sonlight Books (1)
Science Fiction (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 61
- També de
- 5
- Membres
- 3,611
- Popularitat
- #7,014
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 33
- ISBN
- 215
- Llengües
- 2
- Preferit
- 1
(Ages 8-12, grades 3-7)
This story is just so-so! I thought the story would focus more on whales, but it seemed to focus more on Bindy, the foster girl who everyone thought was literally a big fat liar. Her parents had died and she was adopted by an aunt who had a son. This son was golden-boy. He was a high school football star and very well liked. Bindy, on the other hand, was chunky, heavyset, over ate, all this the author made very clear. Golden-boy had a hidden mean streak and would beat up on Bindy.
Bindy finally got brave enough to tell her Aunt and Uncle but they didn’t believe her. It caused so much trouble in the family that they decided to throw her into the foster system where she would end up with the Landon family, who had two kids Jack and Ashley. Their mother was a scientist who studied the mysterious deaths of sea mammals. She was called to travel to Maine when suddenly there were 12 different varieties of sea mammals washed up onto the shore at Bar Harbor. Most were dead, but few were in the process of being stranded.
Where the story goes a little awry is when the kids find themselves in a dangerous adult crime situation by trying to solve the mystery themselves. There wasn’t too much written about whales, themselves, but the author does add an Afterward on true facts about whales and how sonar causes them to beach. The little bits and pieces of this story regarding whales are based on true facts.
The story just wasn’t what I thought it “could” be. Younger kids might find it interesting or boring. I’m just not even sure.… (més)