Heaven Eyes and my view.

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	• Heaven Eyes (Readers Circle) David Almond Laurel Leaf, 2002 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 30 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Best Book so far

This was an amazing book. It touched my heart so deeply and i would recommend it to everyone.

Heaven Eyes and my view.

Heaven Eyes is written by David Almond. He was grown in northeastern England. He used to be a postman, a brush salesman, an editor, and even a teacher but his writing started after he graduated college. The first novel for children he wrote was Skelling, and this book won a lot of honors, and a lot of best book of the year lists. His second novel, Kit's Wilderness, also won a lot of honors and best book lists for excellence of writing for young adults. He lives in England with his families.
Escaped from their orphanage, Whitegates, on a raft, Erin, January, and Mouse float down into another world of abandoned warehouses and factories, meeting a strange old man and an even stranger girl with webbed fingers and little memory of her past. In this book, Heaven Eyes, the hidden secrets and the surprising past of the strange girl, Heaven Eyes, are hidden in the deep darkness of here, Black Middens.
The reason that I chose this book to read for this assignment is because the title, Heaven Eyes, just attracted my eyes. I am not Catholic and don't believe much about Jesus, so I don't have many relationships with heaven. But I am very interested in reading some mysterious book, and the word, Heaven Eyes, looked like very mysterious to me. I am very bad reader, so I tried to look for the book that I would enjoy to read, and finally I found out that I like to read mysteries. That's why I am interested in mystery books.
The setting of the book was already cool. This book is about orphans, and the way that they live differently from our lives. This book makes reader interested, because readers can have a time to imagine what their lives would look like if they live with their family, or parents. Also this book flows very unexpectedly and mysteriously, it's also fun to read and predict what will be coming out after each chapter. This book might be very interesting and great to people who are looking for a book to read before they sleep.
The best part of this book, in my little thought, is when Erin, January, and Mouse were saved by Grampa, and Heaven Eyes from the mud of the Black Middens. This part got two new characters joined in this story. Meeting with Grampa and Heaven Eyes foreshadows that Erin, January, and Mouse will have conflicts, and happenings between Grampa and Heaven Eyes. The story is going to be about Grampa and Heaven Eyes' hidden pasts and secrets, so their appearance is very important part.
I think that this book would excite readers' brains and thoughts, so for the ones who want to read with thinking a lot, this book would be cool.

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Stuck in The Middens

There are a lot of kids that stay in this foster home called Whitegates. The majority of these children have all tried to runaway but either were caught by police or just decided to come back after a couple of days. Two of the children come up with this great plan to build a raft out of old doors and just sail away to the oceans. On the day of their departure another child asks if he can go with them on their great escape. So now they are up to three children traveling alone on a river. They don't get very far when their raft becomes engulfed with quick sand, a place called The Middens. The children get scared and don't think they are going to be able to make it out so they try to attract attention by yelling and making different noises. A little girl hears their cries for help and she comes running from the woods where supposedly no one has lived for a long time.
I liked this book because it showed well how children without parents or family deal with their feelings and relate to other children and adults. I also just liked how the whole book was laid out and everything flowed really well together. There was one thing I didn't like about this book and that was the ending. It was just like the book was flowing along really well and then all of sudden it ends and it left me with a lot of questions.
You would like this book if you like adventure. It also has some strange things going on that I didn't know could happen or things that people would believe. This book can be read by boys or girls between the ages of 13-18.

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Unexpected

I was expecting a different story, but I was pleasantly surprised. I enjoyed the book. Kept me interested.

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Erin Law and her friends are Damaged Children. At least that is the label given to them by Maureen, the woman who runs the orphanage that they live in. Damaged, Beyond Repair because they have no parents to take care of them. But Erin knows that if they care for each other they can put up with the psychologists, the social workers, the therapists -- at least most of the time. Sometimes there is nothing left but to run away, to run for freedom. And that is what Erin and two friends do, run away one night downriver on a raft. What they find on their journey is stranger than you can imagine, maybe, and you might not think it's true. But Erin will tell you it is all true. And the proof is a girl named Heaven Eyes, who sees through all the darkness in the world to the joy that lies beneath.

From the Hardcover edition.

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