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8 reviews
Jacquelyn Mitchard

HarperTeen, 2008

A moving story for all ages
I finished ALL WE KNOW OF HEAVEN last night and it's been on my mind all day today. What I find intriguing is that it's been packaged as a YA novel when I think it's a wonderful novel for all ages. Jacquelyn Mitchard has the innate and rare gift of knowing how to tell a story well. With seamless skill, she introduces readers to two young girls who could easily live in your own neighborhood, ...

Mother Less Child

3 reviews
Jacquelyn Mitchard

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1985

mother less child
After discovering "Dispatches From the Mother Ship" quite by accident (and loving it) I searched out any book by this author. I didn't expect a memoir that was so emotional and compelling. At times so desparate- but it has a hopeful ending.

Rosalie, My Rosalie: The Tale of a Duckling

1 review
Jacquelyn Mitchard

HarperCollins, 2005

Love It
My second grade daughter loves this book and I like it too. It is well written and funny. Recommended!

The Rest of Us

4 reviews

Penguin, 2007

Familiar stories
I love the title of this book, a collection of Jacqueline Mitchard's newspaper columns, which are published every Sunday in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She has had quite a life: adopted a child, then was able to have three children of her own. Her husband died, quite young and very quickly, of cancer. She then adopted another child, the story of which was very moving. She then re-married and ...

Cage of Stars

85 reviews
Jacquelyn Mitchard

Hodder And Stoughton Ltd., 2007

Wonderfully written....
If the rating system was based on tears I cried while reading this novel, I would have to give it a thousand stars.... This is the first book I have read by Ms. Mitchard, and I was captivated from the first paragraph; as one reviewer observed, this book practically begs to be read. It is a story of redemption, vengeance, questioning one's belief system, forgiveness, love, hate, life, death and ...

A Ghost at Heart's Edge: Stories and Poems of Adoption

10 reviews

North Atlantic Books, 1999

The Most Literate Adoption Reader
As as adoptive mom & as a writer, I find it hard to locate books that satisfy my yearning for both literary fulfillment AND insight into the "triad" that is Adotpion. "Ghost at Heart's Edge" is that rare book; It's elevating intellectually, an imaginative opening (lots of them) while giving deep thought to what adoption, at its "heart" entails. This is not a "reunion" book, good though those ...

Baby Bat's Lullaby

6 reviews
Jacquelyn Mitchard

HarperCollins, 2004

Baby Bat's a joy
Baby Bat shines with Jacquelyn Mitchard's lyrical descriptions and Julia Noonan's excellent illustrations. I love Mitchard's writing, but I never expected her to tackle bats! But this paean to Mother Love, with its lovely rhymes and luminous pictures of soaring bats, is going to win over both kids--and their parents.

Starring Prima! CD

6 reviews

HarperChildrensAudio, 2004

A ballet of friendship and love
Jacquelyn Mitchard's wit and wordsmith shine through in this charming young adult novel about a precocious mouse named Prima who lives with her extended mouse family in the Ballet Jolie in New York City. She is the granddaughter of a world renown ballerina and yearns to perform on the stage herself. But she also is a rascal and imp and accomplishes the forbidden: she befriends a human, a young ...

Winesburg, Ohio

78 reviews
Sherwood Anderson

Caedmon, 2002

An honest depiction of the emptiness of humanity
Often credited as an inspiration by the renowned literati of the 20th century, Sherwood Anderson exhibited his subtle fineness and simple genius when he penned `Winesburg, Ohio' in 1919. Told as a collection of short stories, the `grotesque' inhabitants of the secluded town of Winesburg begin to relate to a young reporter, George Willard, and open up from the confinements of their society, ...

The Midnight Twins

6 reviews
Jacquelyn Mitchard

Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed, 2008

A haunting story, the first in a new trilogy
Two twins have visions after battling a fire on the night of their thirteenth birthday, and each is revealed to have new powers. Mallory can see into the past and Meredith can see into the future. Their interrelationship and their ability to possibly change time itself involves a labyrinth of difficult decisions in this haunting story, the first in a new trilogy.

Now You See Her

13 reviews
Jacquelyn Mitchard

HarperTeen, 2007

Beyond Good
Expecting this to be a book I would want my teenage grandchild to read, I went into it thinking it would be fun, light and somewhat less than captivating. I was dead wrong. Took me about two days with a very busy schedule to finish because I was so committed to finding out about the true Hope Shay (Bernadette). Whole range of opinions from disgust to sympathy. Great good!!

Still Summer

65 reviews
Jacquelyn Mitchard

Grand Central Publishing, 2007

starts slow, picks up speed and intensity
I listened to the book over a three week period. At first, it was a bit dull in the set-up of the main characters. Once however, the women go on their boat trip, the pace picks ups significantly. I couldn't wait to listen each day on my commute to and from work. Some elements were predictable while others did surprise me. This book doesn't get a five star review as some of the characters and ...

The Breakdown Lane CD

3 reviews

HarperAudio, 2005

AN AFFECTING STORY ELOQUENTLY READ
Few authors plumb the depths of human emotion as deftly as Jackie Mitchard (Was there a dry eye at the conclusion "The Deep End of the Ocean"?) Once again she explores the nooks and crannies of love, family and human relationships in the story of Julieanne Gillis. Actress Anna Fields does a superb job of occupying two narrative voices, that of Julieanne and her learning disabled teenage son, ...

Twelve Times Blessed

60 reviews
Jacquelyn Mitchard

HarperCollins, 2003

Loved it
I guess I'm among the minority but I absolutely loved this book. It's my favorite of all the books of Mitchard's that I've read, including Deep End of the Ocean. Sure, it may not be great literature, but it was definitely an entertaining story. I just loved the romance between True and Hank and it stuck with me for a long time after I finished it. I was hooked from the first night they meet ...

DEEP END OF THE OCEAN

342 reviews
JACQUELYN MITCHARD

Signet, 1997

Wow!
I read this book before the movie over and over again. It is a compelling book which keeps you guessing and tugging at your heart. The twists and turns throughout the books were exciting. Definitely a book you cannot put down! Merna Pocket of Pearls: A 30-day pocket workbook to start hearing a softer voice inside of you!

The Breakdown Lane

52 reviews
Jacquelyn Mitchard

HarperTorch, 2006

Wonderful Women's Fiction
I actually picked up this book on the recommendation of--don't laugh!--Stephen King. As one of the ten books he recommended for late summer reads in an issue of Entertainment Weekly Magazine, the premise hooked me. The book centers around a woman who not only loses her husband to a wacky desire to live a simpler and more-fulfilling life, but has to single-handedly raise two teenagers and a ...

A Theory of Relativity

37 reviews
Jacquelyn Mitchard

Books on Tape, 2001

Excellent read
I think this book was very entertaining and thought provoking. It's a good book-club book!

Christmas, Present

22 reviews
Jacquelyn Mitchard

HarperCollins, 2003

Wisdom for any time of year
What I love about this short novel is its truth. This is life the way it really is. The series of characters surrounding the dying woman are skillfully and unsentimentally drawn. Kids wonder whether they will have enough money to keep the dog, one daughter scolds her mother for dying, the husband criticizes his mother-in-law's unskilled mothering. This is anything but syrupy sweet. The book ...

Two of a Kind

2 reviews
Jacquelyn Mitchard

Amazon, 2006

Powerful and evocative tale
This is a great shift for Jacquelyn Mitchard -- the books of hers that I've read are all memorable family dramas, and while this tale is more in the suspense genre, it still very much concerns family dynamics, which seems to be Ms. Mitchard's specialty. It may seem as if Mitchard has stretched out in a different direction, yet she remains true to what she writes best -- gripping narratives around ...

The Most Wanted

75 reviews
Jacquelyn Mitchard

Flamingo, 1999

The perfect title for a book about love, in all its forms
I never expected to enjoy this book. I bought it at goodwill for about ten cents because I had read The Deep End of the Ocean and thought it was ok. I was shocked by this book. Perhaps because at the time I read it I was only two years older than Arley, our 14 year old heroine, I was drawn in immediately to this book. But it wasn't just Arley's relationship with Dillon, her convict husband, I ...

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