Snap

By Alison McGhee

Book Overview

A sensitive girl comes to terms with loss and learns something about lasting ties in this genuine, gracefully told story. Name: Edwina Stiles Beckey. Nickname: Eddie. Age: Eleven. Hometown: North Sterns, New York, in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. Best Friend: Sally Hobart. Favorite Activity: Making lists. Eddie Beckey makes lists for just about everything and everyone in her life. And for matters of real importance, she wears (and snaps) an array of colored rubber bands on her wrist. Unfortunately, the world is not always so orderly and knowable. No list can help her cope with what's happening to her best friend, Sally -- or change the course of things for Sally's grandmother, whom Eddie has grown to love and depend on as well. With subtlety and insight, novelist Alison McGhee tells the story of a young girl's first encounter with grief, and of the enduring power of friendship.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763620025
• ISBN13: 9780763620028
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Candlewick
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.4" x 0.6" x 5.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Memorable Characters!

This is definitely a book to be savored and reread. Each of the characters is memorable in her own right and the interaction between them is depicted with great poignancy. Although this is a novel about death and dying and loss, it is primarily a novel about friendship and relationships. The writing is beautiful and this is a story that will remain very much with you long after you close the book.

SNAP

The book is about a girl name Edwina Becky that does lists. Like grocery lists, homework lists, New Years resolutions, books read , books to be read, best friends, next best friends, favorite names, favorite nicknames, favorite movies, favorite foods. Also that she is 11 years old. And Edwina has a friend to that is name Sally Hobart. Well Edwina does wear colored rubber bands on her wrist. That each all of the rubber bands represents something she did or has already. And that her friend Sally wants to know about her life, friendship, and wants to know about the future also. But Edwina does not know the answers to Sally's questions. Edwina's favorite activity is making a lot of lists of any kind. Also that it's about the friendship of them being friends forever. But mostly it's about the color of rubber bands that have personalities. Like the red one: has is putting food in her cheeks. And the blue one: is thinking of my best friends. Also the yellow one: is for tipping back in chairs. But the white one: is for covering my mouth when I laugh a lot. The pink one: is for whistling under my breath so that it drives other people crazy. But the purple one: stands for "remembering to wear your glasses". The rubber bands all mean something that involves with Edwina's life. Also that Edwina and her friend Sally eat a lot of doughnuts. But they do enjoy having fun being good friends, until one of them could snap one of their rubber bands.

Red, Blue, Yellow, White, Pink & Purple

Jazlyn Halberstadt 02/19/07 Snap by Alison McGhee ISBN- 076362617-1 Red, Blue, Yellow, White, Pink, & Purple. "I have six of them ( rubber bands ), in all different colors, on my left wrist, to be snapped when necessary." My book Snap is a realistic fiction book. It takes place in present day America..There are three main characters; Eddie who is telling the story, Sally her best friend, & Willie who is Sally's dying Grandma ;Willie is the guardian of Sally. The book is mainly about Eddie trying to help Sally through this very hard time and the inner struggle of keeping the friendship together & strong. All the struggle comes from Sally watching & knowing the one person she really loves is leaving & will never come back. This book was an amazing story. It had a suburb moral and point. It really put in perspective what friendship means. Another reason it was fantastic is how it kept you hanging at the end of a chapter. I would definitely recommend this book. I would recommend it because of the values you can grasp from it. Also, it teaches what a friend should really do. It displays the friends you want in life and want to be. This book will be enjoyed by girls of ages ten to fifteen. Also, the type of girl who enjoys a touching story or event. It was such a page turner. It left you off with phrases that really made you think to yourself why or what, and you keep reading to get your questions answered. My mind during the novel did not wander at all. It didn't because of how captured I was from the interesting plot and action filled events. I really connected with the main character Eddie because she had a friend who resisted help from her and yet still stayed friends to comfort her. Eddie didn't know how exactly how to help but what helped was staying friends can relate to this because my sister went through a period of time when friends were dying and I didn't know how to comfort her and in the end she said it helped just knowing I was there for her to talk to.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This book is about a girl named Edwina she really likes lists she makes them for every thing. She has a best friend. Her best friends grandma is her friend to. Ed ,her nickname, and her friend really like sprinkled doughnuts. She has 5 braclets that she wears onher wrist and they mean different things. Like one means dont tip back in your chair but if she does she has to snap it.

Poetic

This is a beautifully written, lyrical book that deals with the effects of impending loss on friendship in an emotionally sophisticated way. Highly recommended.