Eli's Songs

By Monte Killingsworth

Shipped off to relatives in Oregon while his father is touring with his rock band, twelve-year-old Eli comes to love the magnificent trees of a nearby forest and tries to prevent their imminent... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689505272
• ISBN13: 9780689505270
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

An easy read

This was an easy read for an adult, however, the environmental undertones made the reviewer have to remember that her best friend is a logger's wife. She had a definite urge to root for Eli as he tried so hard to save "his trees." The reader is caught up in Eli's journey from hip big-city cool guy, to be considered a "wierdo," one of the nicer things he is called as he attempts to adapt to life in the small Oregon community where his Uncle Danny and Aunt Maud live. His father, Rick, has sent him to live there while he takes a shot at big-time entertaining with his band. Eli's strange looks (long hair, earrings, surfer clothes) do not make for an easy adjustment. The writer has captured what one would think a boy would feel when he is uprooted and plopped into a different world. My only regret is that music did not accompany the songs he wrote to accompany the story. Perhaps he should write a screenplay and include melodies to go with the lyrics.