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World's Apart Lindsay Lee Johnson Boyds Mill Press © 2005 |
This is a story about a girl named Winnie. Winnie is being forced to move to Minnesota and, as if that is not bad enough, she has to live on the grounds of a mental hospital! She is ripped from her home and her group of populettes, the Starlings, and when the kids from her new school find out that she is living on the hospital grounds, she is not easily accepted. This story is set in Rural Minnesota in the year 1959. How can she get back home to Chicago? Will she even want to in the end? It seems like the only person who can help her get her life straight, and see it in a new life, is her new friend Justice, who lives on the nearby Indian Reservation.
I thought that this was a really good book and, although I would recommend it to anyone who likes suspense, I think that this book is more appropriate for middle school children, say in 6th or 7th grade. This book touched my heart to the fullest extent, and made me think about what others are going through, and I would definitely categorize this book as inspirational, suspenseful, and fun.
~ Shoshannah Diehl, grade 8, Boardman Center Middle School