The Unsinkable Molly Malone

By Mary Anderson and Ana Huang

Sixteen-year-old Molly, a socially conscious, struggling artist living in New York, befriends a group of children living in a welfare hotel and, incidentally, falls in love with a mysterious young... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152138013
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A Great Book for Younger Teens

I'm 11, and I find that lots of young adult books can be a little over my head, while children books bore me. This book was perfect. The character of Molly was what made me love the book so much. She's an artist who is unsure of what she wants. Throughout the book, she frequently finds herself in predicaments and then runs away from them. The book is sweet and after the first few pages, you don't want to put it down.It kept me up all night awaiting the ending. It was a great book :)

In New York's fair City . . . .

Idealistic, savvy, and creative, Molly Malone is a real New Yorker, her story vivid with NYC scenes that even tourists know. I liked her quirky, cutting edge, socially conscious garbage collages; her chutzpuh in offering her wares for sale on the street outside the Metropolitan Museum and in talking to gallery owners; and the principles on which she bases her sometimes downright scarey though altruistic actions.I liked the people she interacts with and the realness of the dilemmas with which she finds herself dealing.Is Molly Malone for real? Yes, she is!

A interesting book!

~I really enjoyed reading this book. Molly is a great girl. She cares about society and actually does something for it. She is not afraid to go to a welfare hotel to help ~{!0~}her kids~{!1~}. These kids have psychiatric problems and other problems. Molly helps these kids as much as she can. She is socially conscious. Mary Anderson put Ron~{!/~}s richness and the children~{!/~}s poorness together, makes an emphatic contrast. When two of her young students suffer traumas, she decides that~~ she must do more to help them. She chooses to work with these kids first, not to have fun with Ron. She put her relationship with Ron behind. They straighten everything out at last.~

A fun New York story with a really cool teenage heroine

I loved the character of Molly in this book- she seemed so real and vibrant, like I knew her. The story is fast paced and very readable, with lots of fun and wit. It's not the typical teen-age fare, but that's what makes it good! I recommend it.