Heaven Eyes

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Summary: Heaven Eyes, David Almond, K. Nam, Period 3
Review: ...BR> I liked this book beacause it was a great fantasy. This book combined fantasy with the real world. One of my favorite Quotes was "He'll bloody kill us". I like this quote because it gives you a scared feeling. It also shows that January had great fear of Grampa.
Another reason why i like this book was because it felt real when you read it. It made me feel like i was in the story. The other Quote I liked from this book was "Her eyes beseeched me". I liked this Quote because it showed that Heaven Eyes was looking at Erin to see if she was trustable. It was also a big part of this story.
My favorite part of this book is when Erin, January, and mouse meet Heaven Eyes. I like this part because Heaven Eyes is different from the children but they meet eachother and befriends eachother. This book was adventurous. It was different from the other books I have read before, but was enjoyable. I had a great time reading this book.

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Summary: Hauntingly Irresistable
Review: Almond has once again struck a lovely dark chord with Heaven Eyes. His language is lyrical and addictive. Some may have found the language of Heaven Eyes'character irritatating, but I found it enchanting and it enhanced the fairy tale quality of this interesting book. Her voice is what the makes the story a great read aloud. The Black Middens, the warehouses, the debris, all of the settings, gave me a futuristic feeling, while at the same time, the characters felt of an older world....making the story timeless. Almond has a unquie way of taking the dark and mysterious, and turning it warm, emotional and familiar. Erin Law is a great female character...gutsy, and sensitive all wrapped up in one. If you are an Almond fan....here you go ....another great adventure from one of my favorite master storytellers.

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Summary: A GREAT book by David Almond!!!
Review: Heaven Eyes was a good book. David Almond did a fantastic job on writing this novel about orphan children who are mad at the world and think that nothing is right. It all starts when Erin Law, January, and Mouse take off from the orphanage on a raft that January made. Maureen, the social worker at Whitegates always told them that they were damaged children without hope of surviving in the world. They were going to float on the raft all the way down the river, but something terrible happened! They got stuck in the "Black Middens" where they meet Heaven Eyes. Heaven Eyes is a curious girl who thinks that Erin is her sister and Mouse and January are her brothers. She takes them to her home, which is a warehouse where magazines and newspapers used to be made, but all the kids are frightened by the way she looks. Her fingers and toes have webs between them, and she's a pale white color...>Erin played the role of a gutsy, sensitive, curious girl. Mouse played the role of a shy but fearless and stunning character, and January, was strong and very hard working.
I liked this book a lot, I would give it 4 stars ****! Anyone who enjoys adventure books or just exciting books that you can't put down because you need to know what will happen next will really enjoy this one!

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Summary: I Hated This Book
Review: I have never read a book I've disliked more. I was assigned to read it and give a book review for the rest of the staff. That made me doubly annoyed because I would have put it down and forgotton it after the first two chapers.

Depressing from the start it's about children in an orphanage who are angry at the world. Yes, the reasons why are given, but not devoloped to any solution. In fact, I was left thinking they were a bunch of whiners. And before you flip your lids, I was once a foster kid.

An exciting adventure looms, they take a raft trip down the river. They get stuck in the mud and things get weird. Dead bodies coming to life, old men who are sane one moment and trying to kill the orphans the next. An interesting little girl named Heaven Eyes those poses all kinds of questions that never get answered. The to top it all off, one of the orphans has a "feeling" something is going to happen. Low and behold the mother he's never seen, who abondoned him on the door step of a hospital 11 years ago shows up and they know each other immediately.

There are too many wonderful books to read. Don't waste your time on this one. If you want to read about orphans read Lemony Snicket.

I wanted to give 0 (zero)stars but was forced to give it one by the book review program.

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Summary: Wow!
Review: I just finished this book today! It was an exellent book! To me this book was suspence full and i read it really cast because of that i was glad when the book was over cause i knew what happened but i was also sad that this great adventure came to a stop. I think that you should read this spectacular fantasy!

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Summary: Beautifully Written
Review: I think this is one of the best books I have read ever. It is a great story and I love the way they discover the girl Heaven Eyes. This book is great and it is hard for me to imagine someone not liking it.

David Almond is by far one of the best Authors I have ever read. His books are so good and not like anything I have read before. The Story is a mostly realistic enviroment but one element is added that is not real. (that being Heaven Eyes)

It is about 2 kids that run away from where they lived, a center for 'damaged' children. This time they take a raft and float down the river until they get stuck in the Black Middens, which is a muddy part of the river. A girl with webed hands pulls them out tells them they are her brothers and sister. When she shows them to her grandpa he says they are not her brothers and sister, That they are ghosts. (which he refers to real people as) Erin Law (the main character) comes to Love Heaven Eyes as her sister and when her Grandpa dies they take her back to the place they live. Heaven learns that she was not just a creature pulled out of the mud, that she had a mum and a dad and 2 brothers too.

This is one of the best books I have ever read and I would recomend it to almost any one.

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Summary: The Heaven Eyes in Us
Review: If you want to read a good book, well you better read this great book by David Almond, the author of "Kit's Wilderness" and "Skellig" along with many others.
If you want suspence and adventure, then this is the book for you. "Heaven Eyes" is one of the best writen book I have ever read. if you read this book, then I promise you, you will be swept away in a world unknown to most of all mankind. This place is a place that you can escape to when ever you want.
Heaven Eyes is a young girl living with her granfather in a wreackage site. Her life changes when Erin Law, January Carr, and Mouse Gullence get swept in with the tide from the "Black Middens".
This book is truly one of the best books ever writen. Read this book, and you will understand one of the reasons we were put on tis planet.

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Summary: The Magic of Heaven Eyes
Review: Mystical is the only way I can accurately describe this book. Almond's use of the English language is amazing. There are very few books where the writing doesn't get in the way of the story. In this book, the writing is so beautiful, so perfect, that it only enhances the story. Yes, it is a bit of a melancholy story. However, it is full of hope and life throughout.