White Magic: Spells to Hold You (review)
2007; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 61; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/bcc.2007.0739
ISSN1558-6766
Autores ResumoReviewed by: White Magic: Spells to Hold You Cindy Welch Easton, Kelly White Magic: Spells to Hold You. Lamb, 2007193p Library ed. ISBN 978-0-375-93769-9$18.99 Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-375-83769-2$15.99 R Gr. 7-10 When Chrissie is uprooted from her beloved Vermont and moved to L.A. for her mother's upcoming second marriage, she expects to remain friendless and unhappy forever. Fortunately, she's wrong; she soon becomes part of a white-magic coven with confident Yvonne, whose father took her away from her gypsy mother, and lovesick Karen, who is always falling for the wrong guy. The trio of fifteen-year-olds bond over boys and homemade spells, until Karen realizes that her crush (Jimmy) is interested in Yvonne and feelings of betrayal and anger at her former best friend lead Karen down a destructive path. In this novel smoothly adapted from the author's stage play, the girls themselves tell their story of friendship and trust (between parent and child as well as between friends), alternating narration in chapters often introduced by poetry or Yvonne's unique spells. Jimmy, Karen's crush, also has a few chapters of his own that create a brief and violent male trajectory through this female territory of the heart. Minor plotlines such as Yvonne's reluctant reunion with her mother and Chrissie's attempts to get into a prestigious poetry camp in Vermont successfully deepen reader understanding of the characters without getting in the way of the rest of the story. Friendship rather than witchcraft is the magic that holds this junior Ya-Ya sisterhood together as they come to terms with their individual realities—mothers aren't everything you want them to be, boys don't always love you back, and friends never give up on each other. Copyright © 2007 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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