Green Angel by Alice HoffmanGreen and her family live in a small town near to a large city and make their living by farming and selling their harvest at the city market. Green is especially talented at making things grow, and is upset when her parents leave her alone at the house and take her little sister with them to the market. When a bomb is dropped on the city that day it changes Green’s life forever.
Green is a great character, and the way she copes with losing her family and life as she knew it is fascinating. She renames herself Ash and begins to tattoo dark images of thorns and raven wings on her skin and wear boots with spikes sticking out of them. When she retreats into her garden, she discovers that her talent remains and others come to rely on her. Written full of imagery, Green Angel is a very different kind of dystopic novel.
4 stars out of 5 for Green Angel.
Reviews:
http://www.cbc.ca/kids/reviews/2006/10/green_angel.html
http://www.scholastic.com/titles/features/fiction/greenangel_rrr.asp
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