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Well...yes and no. Since I live in DATA Library, I’m surrounded by books in my home, so I don’t really have to take them anywhere. I just find one of those comfy chairs and get reading. Ms. Cook and Ms. Johnson take books home all the time, though.
Ms. Johnson just finished reading the book Echo, by Pam Muñoz Ryan, who is also the author of Esperanza Rising. I sat down with her to chat about the book and here’s what she had to say.
Echo is really four stories all rolled into one. It seems the only thing they have in common is a mystical harmonica, but Muñoz Ryan weaves all of the characters and events together into a beautiful ending. The prologue starts before World War I, but the first story takes place in Nazi Germany just before World War II, a very chilling period in the world’s history. The second story, about two orphaned brothers takes place in Pennsylvania in 1935, during the Great Depression. The final story is about a young girl who moves from Fresno to Orange County, California in 1942 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the US’s entrance into the war. She and her parents are taking care of the farm of a Japanese family that has been interned, in the hopes that no one will come and take over the land while the Japanese family is gone. All they while she’s missing her older brother, a soldier fighting in World War II. This book is beautifully written, and the author leaves the reader hanging at the end of each of the three main stories. It’s not until the end that we find out about how things end up for the characters and the fateful harmonica.
I have to agree with Ms. Johnson. I think this is a great book, too. I really love Pam Muñoz Ryan!
Read on!!
SM
Well...yes and no. Since I live in DATA Library, I’m surrounded by books in my home, so I don’t really have to take them anywhere. I just find one of those comfy chairs and get reading. Ms. Cook and Ms. Johnson take books home all the time, though.
Ms. Johnson just finished reading the book Echo, by Pam Muñoz Ryan, who is also the author of Esperanza Rising. I sat down with her to chat about the book and here’s what she had to say.
Echo is really four stories all rolled into one. It seems the only thing they have in common is a mystical harmonica, but Muñoz Ryan weaves all of the characters and events together into a beautiful ending. The prologue starts before World War I, but the first story takes place in Nazi Germany just before World War II, a very chilling period in the world’s history. The second story, about two orphaned brothers takes place in Pennsylvania in 1935, during the Great Depression. The final story is about a young girl who moves from Fresno to Orange County, California in 1942 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the US’s entrance into the war. She and her parents are taking care of the farm of a Japanese family that has been interned, in the hopes that no one will come and take over the land while the Japanese family is gone. All they while she’s missing her older brother, a soldier fighting in World War II. This book is beautifully written, and the author leaves the reader hanging at the end of each of the three main stories. It’s not until the end that we find out about how things end up for the characters and the fateful harmonica.
I have to agree with Ms. Johnson. I think this is a great book, too. I really love Pam Muñoz Ryan!
Read on!!
SM