Tree Girl, by Ben Mikaelsen (NEW YA Fiction)
by Monica, 11th grader
Everyone has learned about the Holocaust, about slavery, and maybe even about more obscure atrocities such as the Rwandan genocide from movies (Hotel Rwanda). But what of the 1980s Mayan genocide in Guatemala? It was no less terrifying, no less wrong, than all the other horrible events that fill our history books. Maybe we haven't heard of it before, but it happened, and the story deserves to be told just as much as any other. And we need to listen.
I think this is one of those books that everyone should read. To begin with, it's simply a good book filled with rich imagery. But what's more, it carries a message that is both intensely personal and yet sweepingly metaphorical. It carries you away on waves of thought and emotion. It's beautiful. Unforgettable.
Read it.
October 3, 2007 at 12:31 am |
this book reminded me about the holocaust and hom many people died like in the part where soldiers came to places and ddestroyed villiges in the book tree girl.