Because I savored every single word of it and only fell even more in love with it, so much that it’s officially my No. This is the story of Mattie, sixteen years old, and full of the passion and need to express herself, to find her true voice, and to break out of the mold that could trap her into a role, of doing what others want for her. this book, as is, i think would not do so well as an adult-fiction title, but the care that went into writing it, and the multilayeredness of it - it is certainly more ambitious than many of the other titles intended for a teen audience, and i say "three cheers". It gave this book a feeling of immediacy, and I liked and related to the heroine, who aspired to greater things that she felt she didn't deserve.

I discovered this Printz Honor awarded novel when I was placing Jennifer Donnelly's newest novel "These Shallow Graves" on hold at the library.Mattie is a beautifully-realised and highly engaging character, and Jennifer Donnelly has created an absorbing story, part mystery/part coming-of-age novel, which will hold the reader's attention to the last. I'm still waiting for the book about the girl who wants the glory of the stars but chooses the drudgery of the earth, that will be a story worth reading. Coupled with the superb talents of Hope Davis on the audio, I felt that I "knew" each of these characters so very well and came to care for them in much the same way that Mattie did. Will she choose to risk it all and try to find her own independence or will she succumb to her family's wishes and abandon her aspirations to instead become a farmer's wife?

Character-wise, I loved the central character, Mattie (Mathilda), from whose perspective we get to witness the events play out. The letters of Grace Brown, the people around whom the story revolves and the inclusion of intriguing words from the dictionary make for an engrossing experience. It's also a time where many female authors were considered scandalous and their books, if you could get them, needed to be hidden. Set in Whitechapel in 1888, The Tea Rose is the tale of Fiona Finnegan the spirited daughter of an Irish dock worker. Jennifer worked with Disney again in 2017, when she released the NY Times bestselling "Lost in a Book," an original novel set in the world of the blockbuster film, "Beauty and the Beast.I'd seen the crimson glory of a stand of sugar maple in autumn and the unspeakable stillness of a mountain lake at dawn. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Especially since I often go through the same dilemma, even in this day and age, thanks to the backward society I’m from. Jennifer Donnelly is the author of thirteen novels - Poisoned, Stepsister, Lost in a Book, These Shallow Graves, Sea Spell, Dark Tide, Rogue Wave, Deep Blue, Revolution, A Northern Light, The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose and The Wild Rose - and Humble Pie, a picture book for children. It is written for young adults and is another of those novels which i can see, in the hands of a clever teacher, could be a great leaping off point for all sorts of reflection and debate.The prose is pictorial and detailed, conveying the surroundings, the characters and their feelings so nicely. In fact most who had never read anything by Jennifer Donnelly picked up The Tea Rose or other of her books that were written later. First, Royal (the one who kisses Mattie despite his bicep-elicious bod and her plainness – which we know, of course, isn’t really plainness at all) arrives to save Weaver the Black kid.