A Blue-Eyed Daisy

by Cynthia Rylant

Paperback, 2001

Status

Available

Call number

J3I.Ryl

Publication

Aladdin Paperbacks

Description

Relates episodes in the life of eleven-year-old Ellie and her family who live in a coal mining town in West Virginia.

Collection

Juvenile

Barcode

8711

Language

English

Original language

English

Original publication date

1985

Physical description

99 p.; 7.7 inches

ISBN

0689844956 / 9780689844959

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User reviews

LibraryThing member satyridae

Pellucid prose and an approachable narrator combine to make this a warm story with flashes of pain. A slice of West Virginia coal-mining town life from the point of view of 11 year old Ellie.

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LibraryThing member juniperSun

With simple sentence structure, this chapter book would work with elementary students. The protagonist is 11-going on 12, the writing seems geared for a younger age, and the issues are those of a girl just on the cusp of puberty: friendship, death, self-assurance, parental disharmony.
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the locale: her father is a disabled miner & they live on a mountain so my first thought was WV, but the later talk of huge snow storm made me think of PA. The time setting is kind of indeterminate also: no mention of cell phones, but other than that I don't think modern youth will feel the book is dated.

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