During her first term at boarding school, fifteen-year-old Flanders tries to cope with a variety of unusual people and situations and come to terms with her conflicting emotions about her recently separated parents.
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With humor and insight, Kerr writes of a student who tries to help her aging faculty adviser. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
gave me boldness,
By Madoo (Los Altos, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Is that you, Miss Blue? (Hardcover)
I read this book 26 years ago. It energized me and gave me boldness to be myself. Perhaps it is of mediocre literary quality -- I would be interested to read it again now -- but it gave me what I needed at age 13.
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This review is from: Is That You, Miss Blue? (Hardcover)
Is That You, Miss Blue deserves more than 2 stars. I read it about 15 years ago and I'd like to read it again. It resonated with what I was feeling at the time.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not the greatest, but very funny in parts.,
By Privacy, Please (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Is That You, Miss Blue? (Paperback)
I read a lot of M.E. Kerr books as a teen in the 70s and this, along with "Dinky Hocker", is one that stuck with me the best. The narrator, Flanders, has been sent off to a girl's boarding school because her mother has run off with another man and Flanders is "in the way". At the boarding school, Flanders meets all kinds of characters including her impoverished and cynical friend Cardmaker; a gorgeous hillbilly girl from a nouveau riche family; another gorgeous girl who is deaf and incredibly loud; and Miss Blue, a reclusive teacher who spends a lot of time visiting with a large portrait of "her pal" Jesus. Flanders eventually develops an odd attachment to Miss Blue, who may be eccentric, but is at least quietly eccentric.
Although this book doesn't have much of a consistent theme or plot, and may be a little arcane to those of us who haven't attended boarding schools, there are some very hilarious parts - many years later I can still remember how hard I laughed at the chapter where the girls attend a school dance. Cardmaker's dyed formal stains her neck blue and Flanders gets a crush on a gorgeous rich boy who's the equivalent of Jethro from Beverly Hillbillies and talks about steaks as big as "toilet seats". Religion and belief in God come into play in the book, as the hypocritical school authorities (the school is nominally Episcopal) disapprove of the "atheist club" started by some of the girls but also disapprove of the seemingly genuine and personal faith of Miss Blue. Miss Blue is perhaps an even more interesting character in the 2000's than she was in the 1970s for the simple reason that she professes her religious faith quietly, personally and a little eccentrically, in contrast to today's evangelical styles. As with Tucker in "Dinky Hocker", Flanders is presented as the more "normal" foil to the wackier students and teachers all around her and it's likely that some readers will relate to her feelings of loneliness and insecurity. I personally didn't relate but I still thought it was an OK book.
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