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While the story is a murder mystery and historical novel on passenger pigeons, I felt the steady beat of dealing with the loss of a loved one moreso than solving the crime. The mystery has a few small bullet holes in it, but I'm not going to talk about it because I'll give away the plot. Some obvious questions aren't addressed and Georgie does some incredible feats, but it wasn't enough to derail the story. It might draw a raised brow, but the humor pulls it along.
Georgie's next stage of grief is blaming herself for her sister's death and seeking redemption. Timberlake mixes humor with the grief so it doesn't become overwhelming. She also shows Georgie grieving over her older sister getting married and leaving home. My younger sister explained to me that she had those same feelings when I got married and said she cried as a teenager. While Georgie grieves that she will not be able to run the store with her sister, I recalled my sister asking me how could I live without her. In hindsight I should have talked about my upcoming marriage.
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She was very mean to Billy but I can understand her feelings. She's still a child and thinks like a child at times. In some ways, he's as childish as Georgie and not as smart, but in other ways, he's a responsible adult. I can relate to her dreams and desires and the ambition to go after what she wants, but she didn't behave very well by running off without word to her family.
The history tossed in at the end doesn't fit with the story. I know what the author was trying to do but it seemed forced and made the message heavy handed. I also found lengthy passages with metaphysical and philosophical pondering too long and too heavy for the novel. Georgie's sister, Agatha, has been found dead.
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This is a great read aloud for upper elementary and middle school students. The book would appeal to both boys and girls and students of all levels. I passed it along to my son who loves adventure and I can’t wait to talk with him about it. Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry influencers in the know since 1933. The violence in the book is not graphic, although the state of the corpse in the beginning of the story is disturbing. The body had no face, only a clump of hair and no hands.
The violence is a little bit graphic but nothing that really bothered me too much. Though my inclination would be to booktalk it to them on the murder mystery solving, if you do that then they might get turned off by the sweeter sister interactions at the start. Best if you inform them straight out that it's a book about two sisters who love one another very much until one ends up dead in a ditch and the other doesn't believe in the body.
Agatha, decoded, in “The Mystery of Mrs. Christie”
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Timberlake gracefully fits in quite a bit of information about the passenger pigeons whose migration triggers the events of the story without seeming to teach. After the exciting action-filled climax, the final resolution unfolds slowly, which may frustrate some readers -- but it's ultimately satisfying. The setting is interesting but Wisconsin wasn't exactly the wild west in 1871.
She's so earnest and innocent in the beginning. I didn't understand why she didn't do what she did at the end in the first place but she needed the journey to grow as a character. She changes a lot as a result of all she's been through. I liked her best when she was acting stubborn and hoydenish.
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And when the sheriff returns to town with an unidentifiable body - wearing Agatha's blue-green ball gown—everyone assumes the worst. Refusing to believe the facts that are laid down before her, Georgie sets out on a journey to find her sister. She will track every last clue and shred of evidence to bring Agatha home.
It sets the book in history nicely but feels like it comes after all the actions of the characters have been resolved . Then there is the resolution to whether or not Agatha is truly dead. The answer comes in such a way where it appears that nothing Georgie has done has led to the answer. Finally, there is a very good question as to why no one wonders why the body of Agatha was found wearing a ball gown.
The beginning has more flashbacks and once the mystery starts to get solved by Georgie, they trickle near the end to reflect Georgie's thoughts. I did like how Timberlake transitioned into the flashbacks especially when Georgie is blasting glasses to smithereens with her shotgun. The flashbacks are short so I didn't feel they interfered with the pacing. It's an adventure about a most unusual topic, set in a place and time not often written about for readers of any age.
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This is a slow boil of a story, set in 1871 in a small town in Wisconsin. A series of events leads to the sheriff bringing home the body of a young girl, a death her younger sister refuses to accept. As she leaves home to investigate, the story becomes part mystery, part adventure. However, it develops at a pace equivalent to two people rocking on a porch, chatting mildly about the weather.
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