Sometimes the word "normal" sounds boring, but that's all 12-year-old Addie is looking for in Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor. After her mother ("Mommers") gets divorced, the two of them move to a trailer in a busy part of Schenectady, New York. Mommers has a good heart, but she's unreliable and sometimes disappears for days at a time. Addie is amazingly independent and tries to make the best of bad situation by befriending Soula and Elliot from the nearby convenience store, working hard at her flute (a challenge because of her dyslexia), and keeping a close and heart-warming relationship with her ex-stepfather Dwight and two younger half-sisters. My favorite line was when Soula said a hibiscus tree in the barbershop was like Addie, "willing to bloom in conditions [she] was never meant to encounter."
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Normal never sounded so good
Sometimes the word "normal" sounds boring, but that's all 12-year-old Addie is looking for in Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor. After her mother ("Mommers") gets divorced, the two of them move to a trailer in a busy part of Schenectady, New York. Mommers has a good heart, but she's unreliable and sometimes disappears for days at a time. Addie is amazingly independent and tries to make the best of bad situation by befriending Soula and Elliot from the nearby convenience store, working hard at her flute (a challenge because of her dyslexia), and keeping a close and heart-warming relationship with her ex-stepfather Dwight and two younger half-sisters. My favorite line was when Soula said a hibiscus tree in the barbershop was like Addie, "willing to bloom in conditions [she] was never meant to encounter."
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