Customer Reviews

The Silver Pencil (Newbery Library, Puffin)

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1 star:		(2)

 

 

The book was given to me by my cousin, Haley. I needed to do a book report on a book for school and I came across it. So I did it for a book report. I thought it was a wonderful book and very exciting to see what might happen next.

Janet is the main character and lives in Trinidad but then she moves to England. Her father gives her a silver pencil for Christmas. After Christmas, her father dies. She was very sad. She came to America to attended college to become a kindergarden teacher. She wrote a story with her silver pencil and got it published. She liked to write and wrote many stories.

It was a very interesting book and one that one would not want to put down. I recommend this book to teenagers as well as younger children who love to read. It would be an encouragement to anyone who likes to write stories.

I loved this book! It is, among other things, the touching story of a young woman's talent for writing and is great at describing the feeling of the era in which the book is set. Trying to squish the book's good points into a 1,000 word paragraph is impossible so I have one suggestion: Read the book! It will delight and enchant all generations... definitely a 5 star book!

This book is a great book. It deals with a lot of good situations.The little girl is an extremly good writer. She moves from her home to scotland with her mother after the death of her father.Then they move back to England and she moves to Americia to become a teacher.There she moves in with a family and falls in love with the oldest son Stephen. Then they have to try and keep their love a secret.

This book involves a girl named Janet.She expierences a death of her father. She also loves to write. This story based on Janet desciribes how her life begins at age nine reading the book Little Women ending older as being a teacher reading the same book, but with a whole different prespective. This book of my opinion is a wonderful book for all ages wanting to have a good book in there hands.

I loved this book! It is a touching story on a young woman's talent for writing and is great at describing the feeling of the era in which the book is set. Trying to squish the story's good points into a 1,000 word paragraph is impossible so I have one suggestion: Read the book! You'll laugh and cry with the characters... definitely a 5 star book!

The interesting adventure of a young girl exploring writing and immigrating are terrific. The Silver Pencil has it's own unique flavor; strange at first, but then wonderful as you get into it!!!

This is a boring, uninteresting, plotless book. I do not understand how someone could like a book that does not have a plot. I mean, you can't even tell what the book is about! If someone asked me, "what is The Silver Pencil about?" my best answer would probably be,"it's about a girl who does stuff". This is modern art in book form. Do not waste your money like I did.

What has possessed you people? How could you possibly rate this piece of trash 5 stars? This book has no plot. Everyone in my class read this book in literature class (not in one day, of course) and everyone HATED it! When we got a writing assignment about the book, almost nobody did well because you can't even tell what the freakin' book is about! Alice Dalgliesh is now hated by everyone in the 5th grade class in my school. She should be arrested for writing a book like this. I'm glad that the school wasted their money on the book, not me. Do not buy this book. You will regret it if you do.