My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

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This story was heartbreaking but also incredibly hopeful. It explored the power of human connections and human beings' capacity for compassion. when I walked past her parents' bedroom on the way to the loo, there weren't any signs of bombs... (as his father has told him all Muslims build bombs). Tudo parecia preto, menos o céu, que reluzia com milhões de estrelas. Elas pareciam velas minúsculas e por um milissegundo imaginei que todas tinham sido acesas para mim e para Sunya e nosso piquenique especial de Halloween.”

Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9752 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-2000033 Openlibrary_edition This book is a whirlwind of adventure and emotions. It made me cry, laugh out loud and has made me value life differently. I could not put it down! Un libro de perdones. De perdones en todos los aspectos. Y un libro de convivencia, también de convivencia en todos los aspectos. A veces resulta más difícil convivir con nuestros propios demonios que con los del vecino. The parents also idolize Rose, to them she never did anything wrong, as if all she did no longer mattered, because she had died so tragically. It made me feel like the parents were not really in pain, but rather pretending that they were, because they did not have much to be proud of her, so they chose to ignore it, rather than see it as what it was, part of her personality. And this is not to say they did not love her, nor that they were not hurting, but that they felt somehow guilty, I din’t really remember where I am going with this, so make of it what you will. But mostly, it's about a family crumbling under the strain of losing a child. Jamie's mother has left the family. His father drinks and is so caught up in his memories of his dead daughter that he can't really see his living children. Jamie's lovely sister, Jasmine, is trying so hard to give Jamie the love, support, and nurturing that he needs. But she's fifteen, and she has issues of her own. It's Jamie's bland acceptance of his family situation as is that's so heartbreaking. At one point, his father hugs him, and he somewhat proudly refers to it as the first ever hug from his father in his life. My heart felt a little more dented after that.Yo no veo qué tienen de sagrado un montón de muñecas viejas, un edredón rosa maloliente y un oso de peluche calvo.”

Ten-year-old Jamie Mathews and his family, consisting of his sister, Jasmine, who is 15, and his father, an alcoholic, moves to the Lake District from London after Jamie's mother has an affair and leaves. Sitting on the Mantelpiece in their new home is the ashes of Rose, Jas's twin sister, who was killed on September 9 in the London Bombings, five years earlier. Jas has been deeply troubled by the death of her sister, yet it doesn't bother Jamie since he was too young to really know Rose and thus he hasn't cried since. At his new school, a Church of England school, Jamie befriends Sunya, who is a Muslim. Jamie knows his father wouldn't approve of their friendship, as he hates Muslims and blames Rose's death on the entire Muslim population. Also, the friendship, possibly budding first love between him and a girl named Sunya was adorable and fresh. In fact she was quite bad and according to Jas she was naughty at school, but no one seems to remember that now she is all dead and perfect.” My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece is one of the best books I've ever read and I really, really hope it is translated into French so that all my French friends can read it, as well!This book is not one of those books, while it is. This book is about a ten-year-old boy who, when he was five, witnesses one of his twin 10-year-old sisters being blown up by a terrorist bomb. It is random, though attributed to a Muslim terrorist group, and so his father hates all Muslims. It can often be difficult to discuss death and bereavement with teenagers, or even for teenagers to do so with parents/carers. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece wins Branford Boase award". BBC News. 6 July 2012 . Retrieved 23 March 2013. Just before Jamie's 10th birthday, Jamie, Jas, their dad and Roger move to the Lake District and this is where the story starts. Jamie has to cope with starting at a new school and making new friends as best as he can without the help of either of his parents. His dad's too sad and his mum's not there. Throughout the book, all he wants is to have a happy family again. When we were leaving London, Dad spent about an hour trying to push his wardrobe through the bedroom door. He turned it on its side. He tried it upside down. He tilted it one way and then the other but it just would not fit. Words like "Mum" and "Affair" and "Dad" and "Drinking" were just like that wardrobe--too big to get out. No matter what I did, I couldn't fit them through the space between my teeth.”

Despre un băiețel de 10 ani care, la un moment dat, rămâne fără una din surorile lui. Tragedie care îl costă multe întrebări și situații de neînțeles. Abandon, dor de mamă și dintr-odată, peste noapte, devine un matur într-un corp de copil. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece is a coming-of-age novel by British author Annabel Pitcher, first published in 2011. It focuses on and is narrated by ten-year-old Jaime Mathews, who moves with his teenage sister Jas and their alcoholic father to the country from their home in London, after his mother has an affair and leaves the family. The title refers to Rose, Jamie’s older sister and Jas’ twin, who was killed five years ago in a terrorist bombing. Although Jas has been deeply traumatized by her twin sister’s death, Jamie was only five when she was killed and didn’t really know her that well. He struggles to understand the depth of his family’s grief, which complicates things when he befriends Sunya, a Muslim girl at his new school, and comes up against his father’s deep prejudice against Muslims. Exploring themes of grief, growing up, identity, and bigotry in the age of terrorism, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece was highly praised for its nuanced take on mature issues through the eyes of a child. It won the 2012 Branford Boase Award and was nominated for multiple other awards. At the end of the book, I felt really moved because no matter how many bad things were happening to Jamie and no matter how sad he was feeling, he still had to get up in the morning and go to school.

If you don't live in the UK (I live in France), I think it's a brilliant book for finding out what it's like to go to school in the UK. It's also really interesting to see how English children speak to each other - and to adults!