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Sparks

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SC Cilandak (Fluent)

Good combination of home-based adventure, characterization, and humor. It’s not first-person narrative, but 13-year-old Carla is the only focalizing character. After finding Grandpa’s body in his workshop and then a letter asking her to burn some old letters he had hidden, she decides that not just the letters but he should have a Viking sea-cremation. She knows it isn’t a realistic goal, but he always encouraged her to reach beyond what she thought possible, so she gets her younger brother and sister to help and eventually (not deliberately) includes many others in the project. The title Sparks literally refers to a club that is working on a float for the village carnival and gets involved, but figuratively it’s the way the spark of an idea can spread beyond the original intent. Deservedly on the 2010 Guardian longlist

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Call Number

F KEN s

Publisher

: Scholastic., 2015

Collation

240 p.; bw.; pbk.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781407145600

Classification

Fiction

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Fiction
Connecting

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