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Unwritten / Tara Gilboy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Mendota Heights, Minnesota : Jolly Fish Press, [2018]Description: 191 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781631631771
Subject(s): Summary: Twelve-year-old storybook character Gracie Freeman lives in the real world but longs to discover what happened in the story she came from.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Childrens Fiction Davis (Central) Library Children's Fiction Children's Fiction GILB Available T00818935
Childrens Fiction Davis (Central) Library Children's Fiction Children's Fiction GILB Available T00818936
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Twelve-year-old Gracie Freeman is living a normal life, but she is haunted by the fact that she is actually a character from a story, an unpublished fairy tale she's never read. When she was a baby, her parents learned that she was supposed to die in the story, and with the help of a magic book, took her out of the story, and into the outside world, where she could be safe. But Gracie longs to know what the story says about her. Despite her mother's warnings, Gracie seeks out the story's author, setting in motion a chain of events that draw herself, her mother, and other former storybook characters back into the forgotten tale. Inside the story, Gracie struggles to navigate the blurred boundary between who she really is and the surprising things the author wrote about her. As the story moves toward its deadly climax, Gracie realizes she'll have to face a dark truth and figure out her own fairy-tale ending.

Twelve-year-old storybook character Gracie Freeman lives in the real world but longs to discover what happened in the story she came from.

Reviews provided by Syndetics

School Library Journal Review

Gr 3-6-Seventh grader Gracie wants to know where her memories of a deadly fire come from, but her mother refuses to tell her much about their past life. Gracie and her family started out as the creations of a writer named Gertrude Winters, who penned them as characters in a novel. Back when Gracie was still an infant, her mother managed to escape into the real world. Now, Gracie desires to know who she is and how much control she really has over the direction of her life. When they return to the story-world of Bondoff, Grace and her mom find themselves at the center of a murderous conspiracy. Gracie's frustrations with her mother are mirrored by her debates with her creator. Through self-reflection, Gracie learns that she doesn't need to be what her mother or her author imagine her to be. VERDICT An original take on metafictional themes. Hand to readers who enjoy Cornelia Funke's Inkheart.-Katherine Magyarody, Texas A&M University, College Station © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus Book Review

A book's characters flee fictional tyranny in the real world.An aging writer by the name of Gertrude Winters wrote a story in which Gracie's family members were the main characters, living in a land called Bondoff. When Gracie was a baby, her mother fled its evil queen with her, magically escaping the pages of the story and hiding in the real, modern-day world. Now 12, Gracie doesn't remember and her mother refuses to tell her all of the details of their mysterious origins. Disobeying her mother, Gracie goes to a Gertrude Winters reading to learn more about her family's story. When Gertrude signs the magic parchment Gracie's mom used to escape the book and suddenly disappears before Gracie's eyes, evil Queen Cassandra somehow enters the real world and kidnaps Gracie's mother, along with the parents of her childhood friend Walter, who are also from Bondoffand naturally, Gracie and Walter jump back into Bondoff in pursuit. Though the book begins with an intriguing premise, the story loses its potency as Gilboy stalls with the identity of Gracie's father, dropping enough obvious hints that the reveal lands flat for readers, if not for Gracie. This tendency to predictability arises several times, along with repetitive banter that slows the pace of the story until Gracie makes an unexpected and counterintuitive decision. The book assumes a white default.Missing details leave this metafictive fantasy feeling disjointed rather than magical. (Fantasy. 10-12) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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