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The Mind's Eye
Contributor(s): Fleischman, Paul (Author)

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ISBN: 0805096744     ISBN-13: 9780805096743
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 1999
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BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - General (see Also Headings Under Family)
- Young Adult Fiction | Health & Daily Living - Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 99020844
Age Level: 12-17
Grade Level: 7-12
Physical Information: 0.27" H x 5" W x 8" L (0.29 lbs) 112 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Physically Challenged
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 2118
Reading Level: 3.4   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 2.0
 
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Publisher Description:

Eighty-eight-year old Elva and Courtney, an attractive sixteen-year-old with a severed spinal chord, lie in adjacent beds in a grim Bismarck, North Dakota convalescent home. Ignored by the world, the only resource they have left is their imagination.

As Elva and Courtney go on a fantasy trip to Italy (accompanied by Elva's long dead husband and guided by a 1910 travel book), Elva shows Courtney a new way to envision love. But to accept it, and the gift of the imagination, Courtney must make the trip her own--even if she destroys the art Elva holds most dear.

Written entirely in dialogue, Mind's Eye can be performed as reader's theater, but it is a fully satisfying novel. In this extraordinarily innovative, profound, and yet readable book Paul Fleischman makes us all feel what a powerful--and dangerous--tool the imagination can be.


Contributor Bio(s): Fleischman, Paul: - Paul Fleischman won a Newbery Medal for Joyful Noise and a Newbery Honor for Graven Images. He is also the author of young adult novels including Whirligig and The Mind's Eye, and middle-grade novels including Bull Run and Seedfolks. He lives with his wife in northern California.
 
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