Category: Young Adult/Teen Publisher: Blue Rose Books
ISBN-10: 0967683319
Type: Fiction
Pages: 179
Copyright: 2000
ISBN-13: 9780967683317
Price: $7.00 (eBook)
Angelsea's parents communicate by yelling. The day she tells them stop is the day her life changes forever.
The evening Angelsea Mead confronts her parents about their fighting, she shocks everyone, including herself. Her family is expert at pretending everything is OK.
So why was she facing two angry people, telling them they should divorce if the can't get along? She really doesn't want them to split up. Or does she?
In only a few weeks, the Meads sell their home in town and the family separates. Angel, her mother and her little brother move to the country. And the family faces an unknown future in Crookwood with little money and no friends.
Now she must confront her worst fears about who she is.
Excerpt
Angel should have known better than to try to sneak inside the house, but it was too late now. Her parents' fight had rekindled before she made it to her bedroom and shut the door. She stood in the middle of the room, her hands knotted into fists, as she listened without intending to.
They were in the kitchen on the other end of the rambling house, but she could hear them clearly even with the door closed. This fight was about one of her father's business parties that her mother didn't want to attend. But they'd fight about the weather or the length of the grass if there weren't something else.
Professional Reviews
Crookwood - A Great Read For Teens!
Angelsea Mead is mixed-up and confused. Her parents' stormy relationship has ended in separation, and now Angelsea must leave her secure life in the city and move into the old two story house in Crookwood. She struggles to keep some of the past intact, but finds that a new life and a new beginning are all part of the growing process.
Barbara Elmore makes it easy to relate to her wonderful characters, comfortably slipping into Angelsea's skin and seeing the world from her point of view. The plot moves swiftly carrying you along in the ups and downs of this character's existance. I highly recommend this book for teens 12 and up.
Khenlee has reached 12 Cycles of Seasons and will find which working circle she will now belong to. She is shocked to find out what the gods have decided what her life work will be.
Samantha is a unique artist only using red ink in her drawings. She comes across a red feather pen enchanted never to run out of ink but she soon discovers that the drawings created from the pen come to life.
