What a great book !

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	• The Unseen Zilpha Keatley Snyder Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2004 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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The Unseen

I am a middle school Language Arts teacher from Florida where THE UNSEEN was among the 15 books selected as Sunshine State Young Readers recommended books for the 2005-2006 school year. Having read all 15 books that summer, a few stood out as being worth a 5 star rating; THE UNSEEN is one of those books.

Since first finishing it in the summer of 2005, I have required my students to read this book for each of the last two school years. I use it to help teach metaphor using a well-crafted young adult (YA) novel. The amazing quality about this book is that it reveals its metaphor so deliciously slowly, it sneaks up on you until you are totally enraptured with the story, and, at the point where you discover the metaphor that is the Unseen, the book gives you the sense that you are reading a story written with intelligence, well-learned craftsmanship and unassuming integrity. At that point, I thought, "Wow! That's good writing!"

The way that Snyder reveals her story and metaphor is subtle and affecting. I have even come to the realization that the key metaphor in this book could also be a metaphor for metaphors -- in the sense that many readers cannot see metaphors until they have the key (Perceptive Knowledge), and when they do learn/find/acquire such a key, new worlds open up to them that simply don't exist for those with limited Vision. That, in itself, to me is a brilliant tool for any Language Arts teacher looking to give his/her students true insight and wisdom. For that alone, this is a book I shall keep forever, and make my students read until I stop teaching Language Arts!

I truly enjoy and appreciate this book and cannot recommend it more. [For those that simply don't "get" this book, please reflect deeply about this book and find the layers. They're there, if you have the key that allows you to see them. Keep trying!]

[I will not reveal any more of the story than other commentators already have as I feel that the joy of the reading is in discovering what comes next.]

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The Unseen

The book I am readnig is The Unseen, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. This book is a fiction book with 199 pages that are filled with excitement and wonder.
In this book a girl named Xandra helps animals that are hurt and can't defend themselves. While she was in the woods one day she found a wounded white bird, so she took it home with her to help it. Later on in the story Xandra find out that this bird is magical and has left her a key to a new world, Xandra meets Belinda who helps her along her journey to this new world with frightning mistical creatures.
I found that this book made me want to deep reading and find out what would happen next. I would recommend this book to people from ages 5-8 grade.

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The Unseen

May I ask the reviewer who gave this book two stars, why he/she's opening sentence describes the book as being 'great'. I'm just a little confused.

Xandra Hobbs is kind but-to speak truthfully- untalented. Each of her family members have talent, yet she is left out. Her only purpose, it seems, is to help injured animals as she does in the beginning chapter. When she is finished nursing an egret back to normal health, she finds one of it's feathers, which she believes is enchanted. She becomes interested in a classmate who believes in the supernatural and views the world of the Unseen.

Snyder's work is enjoyable as always and The Unseen is destined to follow in the steps of The Egypt Game and her other classics.

R

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What a great book !

In the forest and in the countryside you will meet a girl named Alexandra Hobson,Xandra for short.She rescues a bird from hunters just as she had with all the other animals,and nursed it back to health.When the bird left it leaves behind a feather that was magical.Xandra meets and befriends a girl named Belinda Gordon who shows her how to use the key(the feather)as she calls it.When Belinda tells Xandra that the monsters that she seen where mirrors of herself she goes balistic.Will Xandra and Belinda stay friends?You'll have to read the book to find out.

BEST BOOK EVER!!!

This is the third time I've read this book and I managed to find time to put it down for once.

Xandra finds a bird in the forest one day.Overnight it disappeared and left only a feather behind. It is a key to the unseen. When Xandra uses it for the first time first she see's all the animals she took care of and then it all turns bad. They turn into monsters who bite her until she bleeds!

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