Circle home: A novel

By Emily Hanlon and Tomi Oyemakinde

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878881891
• ISBN13: 9780878881895
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Bradbury Press
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An old childhood favorite...

I read this book in 6th grade, and it instantly became one of my all-time favorites! I'd like to find it again to see if it seems as good today as it did when I was 11 or 12.The novel opens with a local (ficticious) news artical about a girl who fell out of a window during a water balloon fight, was thought dead, but was revived at the hospital.Then the story begins. The problem is, the last thing the girl who wakes up remembers is suddenly seeing the saber-toothed tiger ready to pounce; next thing she knows, she's in a very strange place surrounded by very strange people who insist on calling her by a strange name.The story tracks her attempts to make sense of and survive life in a modern suburb and junior high school-- first trying to hold on to who she was, then rejecting everything she remembers and trying to become the person everyone seems to think she should be, and finally reclaiming (and even returning to!) her origional life.Despite the fantastic time-travel elements and what-not, I remember feeling that the author captured my own middle-school experience so much better than all that gobblety-gook Judy Bloom wrote about slumber parties and boys that implied everyone's experience was like something out of a teen magazine. And the ending gave me hope that even those who don't "fit the mold" can find their place eventually.Highly recomended for any young women between the ages of 11 and 14 who don't relate to the mass-media's Judy Bloom/Teen Magazine/Ambercrombie & Fitch take on adolecence.