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Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
Grade 5-8 - A delightful excursion into a world of elves, witches, and sock-eating spreenies. When Wendy, 15, finds sunglasses that fit her prescription perfectly, she begins to see little blue men and realizes that a popular girl in her class is actually a 90-year-old crone, and that the new kid has rather long pointy ears. Wendy is convinced that these strange visions will go away, until she stumbles into Kazaran Dahaani. There she finds out that the boy with the ears is actually an elven prince and that she inadvertently allowed him to be captured. Wendy is inwardly terrified but outwardly uncaring about the prince and demands to go home immediately. Unfortunately, a wayward thought transports her back 50 years before she was born, and she meets her grandmother as a young girl. Eleni is a caring, empathic person who instantly agrees to go to Kazaran to save the prince, and through her influence, Wendy begins to overcome her fears and become the person she's always wanted to be. She also comes to know her grandmother as a young woman, rather than as the bedridden Alzheimer's patient she is today. Vande Velde's sly humor and snappy dialogue make this story a joy to read. Wendy's disbelief and caution are understandable as are the underlying anger and sorrow about her grandmother. However, this is not a heart wrenching novel about loss, but rather a celebration of life. - Saleena L. Davidson, South Brunswick Public Library, Monmouth Junction, NJ
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Gr. 5-8. When resentfully myopic teenager Wendy breaks her glasses en route to school, she replaces them with a pair of scavenged prescription sunglasses. Suddenly, blue imps emerge from a classmate's book bag, the most popular girl in school becomes a saggy crone, and formerly geeky Julian York develops both decent looks and pointy ears. As it turns out, Wendy's new glasses filter magic rather than sunlight, and the imps, the crone, and Julian are really visitors from a fantasy world--an elven kingdom with magical portals that provide instant transport anywhere, and any time, on Earth. One of these, located behind the nursing home of Wendy's grandmother, who is stricken with Alzheimer's, plunges Wendy on a wild journey through space and time and puts her face-to-face with her grandmother's pert, pretty, 18-year-old self. Their subsequent struggles against evil in Darwani Kalazar help Wendy come to terms with the sadness of their present-day lives together. Though the main characters are teenagers, the slapstick humor suggests middle-graders may be Vande Velde's most appreciative audience. Jennifer Mattson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Grade 5-8 - A delightful excursion into a world of elves, witches, and sock-eating spreenies. When Wendy, 15, finds sunglasses that fit her prescription perfectly, she begins to see little blue men and realizes that a popular girl in her class is actually a 90-year-old crone, and that the new kid has rather long pointy ears. Wendy is convinced that these strange visions will go away, until she stumbles into Kazaran Dahaani. There she finds out that the boy with the ears is actually an elven prince and that she inadvertently allowed him to be captured. Wendy is inwardly terrified but outwardly uncaring about the prince and demands to go home immediately. Unfortunately, a wayward thought transports her back 50 years before she was born, and she meets her grandmother as a young girl. Eleni is a caring, empathic person who instantly agrees to go to Kazaran to save the prince, and through her influence, Wendy begins to overcome her fears and become the person she's always wanted to be. She also comes to know her grandmother as a young woman, rather than as the bedridden Alzheimer's patient she is today. Vande Velde's sly humor and snappy dialogue make this story a joy to read. Wendy's disbelief and caution are understandable as are the underlying anger and sorrow about her grandmother. However, this is not a heart wrenching novel about loss, but rather a celebration of life. - Saleena L. Davidson, South Brunswick Public Library, Monmouth Junction, NJ
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Booklist
Gr. 5-8. When resentfully myopic teenager Wendy breaks her glasses en route to school, she replaces them with a pair of scavenged prescription sunglasses. Suddenly, blue imps emerge from a classmate's book bag, the most popular girl in school becomes a saggy crone, and formerly geeky Julian York develops both decent looks and pointy ears. As it turns out, Wendy's new glasses filter magic rather than sunlight, and the imps, the crone, and Julian are really visitors from a fantasy world--an elven kingdom with magical portals that provide instant transport anywhere, and any time, on Earth. One of these, located behind the nursing home of Wendy's grandmother, who is stricken with Alzheimer's, plunges Wendy on a wild journey through space and time and puts her face-to-face with her grandmother's pert, pretty, 18-year-old self. Their subsequent struggles against evil in Darwani Kalazar help Wendy come to terms with the sadness of their present-day lives together. Though the main characters are teenagers, the slapstick humor suggests middle-graders may be Vande Velde's most appreciative audience. Jennifer Mattson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
See all Editorial Reviews
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