My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

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Tudo parecia preto, menos o céu, que reluzia com milhões de estrelas. Elas pareciam velas minúsculas e por um milissegundo imaginei que todas tinham sido acesas para mim e para Sunya e nosso piquenique especial de Halloween.” Also, the friendship, possibly budding first love between him and a girl named Sunya was adorable and fresh.

With surprising friendships and cunning plans, Jamie and Jas muddle through in the way that only children can. A book that perfectly captures the world and its confusing issues from a child's point of view. Ardagh, Philip (20 May 2011). "My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 February 2018. The morals and messages in this story of forgiveness, friendship and family... as well as pain and heartbreak are so striking. That's my rating if you consider everything. The plot and the writing and all of that stuff about which I care about when rating a book. Let's imagine, however, that my rating was only based on the range and depth of emotions this book made me feel. Then it would easily be a 10/5 stars read.Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9752 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-2000033 Openlibrary_edition The way the book is written, Jamie seems like a real person. I think this is because the author explains the many controversial subjects through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy who obviously doesn't think about them in the same way as an adult would. This is one of the best books I have ever read, being 11 (two years old than Jamie in school years) makes me understand how he feels because I can emphasis with him. It is a true story in the fact that it has happened to all ages but not to the people named in this book. Tess starts to question herself and her life when things start to fall apart, although she finds solace in a bright orange goldfish. This book is narrated by Jamie, a 10-year-old boy, whose older sister was blown into pieces by a terrorist bomb in London 5 years ago. His family are overcome with loss and torn apart by their grief. When they try to have a fresh start, Jamie is sat next to a Muslim girl named Sunya in his new school. His thoughts are "Muslims killed my sister" over and over again but Sunya doesn’t seem like a terrorist at all… She is kind, funny and beautiful.

And finally, his relationship with his sister Jasmine(twin of Rose) was beautiful. Very beautiful. The love they have for each other was beyond sweet. Jamie grieves the loss of his family and his parents' marriage, but he doesn't cry over the sister he barely remembers. How can he? He was 5 years old when she died. His parents and various therapists, though, tell him it just hasn't hit him yet. His mother once made him change a school essay on a special person from a soccer player to Rose, and the story she made him use resulted in his being teased mercilessly by the other students. Poor kid. Over 20 years later and parents still don't understand. As much as I hated Jamie's parents, I loved this storyline because I wonder how many kids who've prematurely lost parents and siblings and relatives are acting how they THINK they should instead of how they actually feel. And I wonder how many kids know that it's okay to feel... nothing. Or close to nothing. How do you mourn someone you barely know or remember? I always hear kids being told that it's okay to cry, it's okay to cry, but it's also okay not to cry.when I walked past her parents' bedroom on the way to the loo, there weren't any signs of bombs... (as his father has told him all Muslims build bombs). There were parts when I couldn't stop reading and others that I felt were not so well achieved, but as a whole this book is so good and important. While it does feel like a huge lesson, it neither feels like one adults are trying to teach kids, nor one kids are trying to teach adults. It is a lesson about understanding and empathy and compassion and letting go, which are things that come in handy at any age. It has several powerful quotes that both broke and changed me, and I'm glad I got to go on this short but big journey with these wonderful characters. Ten-year-old Jamie hasn't cried since it happened. He knows he should have—Jasmine cried, Mum cried, Dad still cries. Roger didn't, but then he is just a cat and didn't know Rose that well, really.

At the end of the book, I felt really moved because no matter how many bad things were happening to Jamie and no matter how sad he was feeling, he still had to get up in the morning and go to school. I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don’t like being spied on.” This child is brilliant. Jamie is a brilliant character. When he was five his sister died, but he does not mourn her, because he never truly knew her, nor does he remember her. How can his parents expect him to constantly suffer for someone who never had a chance to be a part of his family? Does he know it is okay to not feel sad over someone you don’t love? It is okay to cry for those lost, but it is also okay to not cry for those we never knew. How can his parents still think he is not “grieving right”? Apart from this he has to deal with his mother’s abandonment for someone else that “understands her,” as he is no longer part of her life. And his father’s ignorance, his fear and belief that all Muslims are evil bastards that commit terrorist acts. He battles this view since Sunya keeps befriending him.Un libro de perdones. De perdones en todos los aspectos. Y un libro de convivencia, también de convivencia en todos los aspectos. A veces resulta más difícil convivir con nuestros propios demonios que con los del vecino. This book is a whirlwind of adventure and emotions. It made me cry, laugh out loud and has made me value life differently. I could not put it down!

The parents also idolize Rose, to them she never did anything wrong, as if all she did no longer mattered, because she had died so tragically. It made me feel like the parents were not really in pain, but rather pretending that they were, because they did not have much to be proud of her, so they chose to ignore it, rather than see it as what it was, part of her personality. And this is not to say they did not love her, nor that they were not hurting, but that they felt somehow guilty, I din’t really remember where I am going with this, so make of it what you will. Now Sunya, who's Jamie's best friend from school, is a Muslim girl with a great imagination who made me smile nearly every time she appeared. At first she stroke me as unrealistically kind and passionate, but as the story progresses we get to see how she's a real little girl with real feelings who's just trying to be her best self. She's definitely a character I would have loved to read about when I was a kid. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece wins Branford Boase award". BBC News. 6 July 2012 . Retrieved 23 March 2013. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece is a brilliant book which shows dilemmas and differences that people have. It shows you should never judge people on their appearance, or in this case religion. The author has shown the strong relationships between brothers and sisters and shows weaknesses with other members of the family. Annabel Pitcher has made Jamie sound like he is very confused and containing his emotions. He doesn't remember his sister, he only has memories of others, like his other sister Jasmine, and his mum and his dad. It is a very sad story but has a happy ending. It is a brilliant book and I would recommend it to anyone! Nonna dice sempre che la gente è verde d'invidia, ma io non sono d'accordo. Il verde è calmo, fresco, pulito e piacevole come il dentifricio alla menta. L'invidia invece è rossa. Ti brucia nelle vene e ti accende un fuoco nella pancia.”je veľká pravda, že táto kniha nie je megagigadokonalá. Ale čo koho do toho? Pre mňa osobne sú najlepšie knihy také, kde si zamilujete postavy a ste rozhodnutí ísť s nimi na koniec sveta. Prežívate s nimi všetko, čo oni a vnímate svet ich očami, ste odhodlaní za ne bojovať. To preto som dal Súboji kráľov jednu hviezdu, pretože aj napriek tomu, že štýl Martina je skvelý a jeho svet nemá najmenšej chybičky, postavy so mnou nič nerobili, nič mi nehovorili a bolo mi úplne jedno, či ich Martin v danej kapitole odbachne. To ten-year-old Jamie, his family has fallen apart because of the loss of someone he barely remembers: his sister Rose, who died five years ago in a terrorist bombing. To his father, life is impossible to make sense of when he lives in a world that could so cruelly take away a ten-year-old girl. To Rose's surviving fifteen year old twin, Jas, everyday she lives in Rose's ever present shadow, forever feeling the loss like a limb, but unable to be seen for herself alone. This story was heartbreaking but also incredibly hopeful. It explored the power of human connections and human beings' capacity for compassion. In fact she was quite bad and according to Jas she was naughty at school, but no one seems to remember that now she is all dead and perfect.”