Chasing Redbird - Softcover

Creech

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330397826 ISBN 13: 9780330397827

Publisher: Pan MacMillan, 2007

Synopsis

To Zinny Taylor, life is like trying to untangle spaghetti – she needs to escape the chaos of her family. So when she finds a long-forgotten trail in the wild woods near her home, she resolves to follow it. It’s a journey that leads her to unravel the dark secrets of her aunt’s life – and her own. And while Zinny chases ghosts in the woods, gorgeous Jake Boone is determined to chase her.

About this title

Review:

Chasing Redbird is one of Sharon Creech's four novels written for children including the earlier prizewinning Walk Two Moons. In Chasing Redbird Creech's magnificent storytelling evokes the wilderness of the Kentucky countryside where bears and snakes and the thick undergrowth of an overgrown trail both challenges the young 13-year-old Zinny to solitary adventure and gives her the mental and physical space to deal with her repressed feelings about the death of her cousin when she was a toddler and with the very recent death of her dearly beloved mother-surrogate, "Redbird" aunt Jessie. As well as learning to face the painful fact of death, the novel is also about growing up, and coming to terms with the fears and hopes of adolescence and burgeoning sexuality. This is a stirring adventure story at the same time as being a deeply moving one. It is bound to win the hearts of younger teens. --Tamsin Palmer

Review:

"This is a beautifully told story, with some very funny moments." The Guardian"

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan MacMillan
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0330397826
• ISBN 13: 9780330397827
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 223