Bull's Eye
Bull's Eye
Harvey, Sarah N.
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Series and Publisher: Orca Soundings   

Annotation: A girl's world falls apart when she discovers that the woman she believes is her mother is actually her aunt.
Genre: [Realistic fiction]
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #4580126
Format: Paperback
Special Formats: High Low High Low
Common Core/STEAM: Common Core Common Core
Publisher: Orca Books
Copyright Date: 2007
Edition Date: 2007 Release Date: 09/01/07
Pages: 112 pages
ISBN: 1-551-43679-5
ISBN 13: 978-1-551-43679-1
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2007926444
Dimensions: 18 cm.
Subject Heading:
Adoption. Fiction.
Aunts. Fiction.
Language: English
Reviews:
Horn Book (Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2008)

Twelve-year-old Mieka and her artist father fly to Houston to visit her estranged grandmother, staying with Mieka's aunt and cousins in their luxurious home. Papademetriou captures well the awkwardness of trying to fit into a family. There is little drama, but the Houston setting is vividly drawn, and Mieka is an observant narrator, concluding that "normal" is something that doesn't exist.

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Horn Book (Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2008)
Word Count: 15,301
Reading Level: 4.4
Interest Level: 7-12
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.4 / points: 2.0 / quiz: 118307 / grade: Upper Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:4.6 / points:7.0 / quiz:Q42340
Lexile: HL770L
Guided Reading Level: Z+
Fountas & Pinnell: Z+
In the photograph, Aunt Donna is very, very pregnant. My mother is not. I look up at my mom and she is crying—silently, with her hand over her mouth. I just make it to the bathroom before I lose my breakfast, my lunch and my mind.


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After Emily's aunt dies, Emily learns that everything she has always believed is a lie, and her world crumbles. Forced to face the fact that her mother is not who she thought she was, Emily tries to find the truth about her past and make sense of her future. Turning to graffiti and vandalism as a way to deal with her anger, she comes to realize that there is more to a family than shared DNA.

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