Growing Wings
Laurel Winter
Jan 2010 · HarperCollins
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"Linnet waited with her eyes closed for the door to open and her mother to peek in. Waited for her to touch Linnet's shoulder blades lightly...Linnet knew that touch in her bones, as if it had happened every night of her life. An imprint, a memory of the skin itself."
So begins this startling first novel about an eleven-year-old girl who suddenly begins to grow wings -- wings with soft auburn feathers, which only at first can be hidden with long hair and loose clothes. Funny, sad, and hopeful, this remarkable story captures a girl's shock at feeling alone in life, as it follows her journey to answer a most important question: how can a girl with wings ever fit into the world?
So begins this startling first novel about an eleven-year-old girl who suddenly begins to grow wings -- wings with soft auburn feathers, which only at first can be hidden with long hair and loose clothes. Funny, sad, and hopeful, this remarkable story captures a girl's shock at feeling alone in life, as it follows her journey to answer a most important question: how can a girl with wings ever fit into the world?
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I loved this book at the beginning! I loved how at the beginning pages she went right to the point. After that it got a little boring but then it got better, matter of fact, amazing! I also liked all the characters!
Sandra Freed
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October 23, 2017
In short, Linnet grows wings (not a metaphor, literal flappy wings), gets left at a hotel, finds other winged humans, tries to fly, fails, dodges reporters, and (spoilers) inhales helium. It was exciting, funny, bizarre, strange, believable, and inspiring. So inspiring that I was inspired to make an animated YouTube movie. It was so believable that you feel like you are one of the winged ones. The only downside to this book is it has no sequel. With two or three swear words, this is not recommended for young kids. Over all, the best book of the avian-human topic, don't let the dull cover of this edition fool you (later edition's covers were better).
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Montserath fulgencio
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June 21, 2016
A must read
About the author
"I grew up as an odd kid in the mountains of Montana," writes Laurel Winter. "I didn’t have wings, but I was klutzy and bookwormish and didn’t always fit in. I attended a one-room country school for eight grades." Today Laurel writes poems and short stories, and she loves to paint and draw and sculpt. She says this novel began as a short story, but its plot surprised her. Together with her husband and twin sons, she lives in Rochester, Minnesota. GROWING WINGS is her first novel.
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