- Mass Market Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Scholastic Press (Feb 1 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0545204119
- ISBN-13: 978-0545204118
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.3 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 59 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #272,795 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From School Library Journal
Grade 8 Up-Beautifully written prose fills this first-person narrative of a teen whose world is turned around in an instant. This is both a survival story and an homage to the need to cherish life's every moment. Moody, introspective Green, 15, stays at home while her parents and younger sister travel to the city to sell their produce. Her disappointment at being left behind causes her to be cold and not say good-bye. Then the city is engulfed in flames, and ashes hover in the atmosphere for a long time. Green is left with her guilt for her sullen behavior and the solitude of her ruined garden. Hoffman has created a multilayered, believable protagonist. Readers suffer along with her and share her fears as she tries to pick up the pieces of her life. The contrast between her original faith in the promise of the future and her later acknowledgment of the tentative nature of reality is vividly and eloquently portrayed. This is not an easy read, and though it is an absorbing tale, it will most likely appeal to more sophisticated readers. A powerfully written and thought-provoking selection.
Renee Steinberg, Fieldstone Middle School, Montvale, NJ
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Renee Steinberg, Fieldstone Middle School, Montvale, NJ
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Booklist
Gr. 6-12. Hoffman's latest fable for teens begins with an apocalyptic scene that mirrors the events of 9/11: a girl watches as her city across the river explodes into smoke and fire, and people leap from buildings. Green, named for her uncanny gardening talent, is 15 years old, and, in the tragedy, she loses her beloved family. Faced with grief and an anarchic world, Green finds solace in the brittle numbness of daily tasks and in the pain of the tattoos that she begins to draw on herself. Slowly, she connects with survivors, especially a mysterious boy, who helps her replant her garden and feel joy again. Hoffman's lush prose and moody, magic realism will easily draw readers into the harsh, ash-covered world that follows the explosion, as well as the sunny world that precedes it, when "bees would drink the sweat from . . . skin, and never once sting." Green's brave competence and the hope she finds in romance will appeal to many teens, particularly those with gothic tastes. Gillian Engberg
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
I was Green. I am Ash.,
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This review is from: Green Angel (Hardcover)
My first encounter with Alice Hoffman was through the movie "Practical Magic" (1998). Knowing that movies are pale reflections of books, I read the book and found it to be much better. When I spotted this book (Green Angle), I realize that Alice was diverse in her writing and decided to read it. I am a fan of YA books and wondered how Alice would translate.I bought the library bound version (sturdier than the paperback but the pages are not as white) but also the kindle (text-to-speak enabled) version as it was more convenient to port. I could listen too much of the book during my mooring commute to work. Green a sensitive There are two trains of thought on this book so instead of taking the low ground and saying that this puny book takes advantage of 9-11, gothic teens, and no plot. I chose to go the other way. The book itself could be looked upon as allegorical for a los in one's life and how one copes with it. It is simple, elegant and poetic as we see the stages of grief and how different people deal with it. You can empathize with her situation and many of us have been in similar situations. The pacing was well done to go full circle in so few pages; there is not fluff as everything had meaning. It does however leave you to want the next book to see what happens. It is not so much the words or the situations that make the book, as they are just the incidences in life not life. They are just a shadow of what is taking place. The only thing I did not prefer in this book is that it is written in the first person "I,I,I" that preference does not distract from the story.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Courtesy of Teens Read Too,
By TeensReadToo "Eat. Drink. Read. Be Merrier." (All Over the US & Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Green Angel (Mass Market Paperback)
Green, who was always in the shadows and worked in the garden, is hit with a terrible reality. Her father, mother, and sister were all killed in the city when it was destroyed.Now living on her own and trying to cope with her changed world, Green begins to fall. She wears all black and begins to ink herself in order to remember her family and what she has lost. Through a boy named Diamond, her neighbor, and an intelligent dog called Ghost, Green is finally able to get through and remember who she really is. With all that has happened, Green learns that punishing yourself isn't a form of remembering, but moving on is. Hoffman writes with a clear and silent insight, as if she is looking back at a terrible past with the memories still burning underneath her lids. I remember reading this book a few years back and even now I know the impression it left on me. Wanting to read this book again wasn't because I just enjoyed the story, but because it taught me something that neither my parents nor anyone I knew had ever told me about - what happens to you after someone you love dies. I'm so glad that my love of reading gave me this insight before anything like this ever happened to me in a less dramatic situation, and therefore I recommend this book to anyone and everyone who wants to learn more about the human heart. Reviewed by: AdrienneBe
5.0 out of 5 stars
A poetic jewel,
By "basketcasenimrod" (Canada!) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Green Angel (Hardcover)
Green Angel is a very lovley book. It brings you into the mind of a 15, soon to be 16, year old girl.Green, who is very shy, and quiet, loves to plant,and is very beautiful, loses her family. Green loses, her mother, who taught her everything about planting, her father, to whome she loved, and most of all, her younger sister,aurora, who never forgot about Green, and always thought of her older sister. Green goes mad, she slowly rips her old self apart. She sews thorns on her jacket, and nails on her shoes,tatoos herself with ink, and chops her beautiful hair off. she slowly transforms into another person, but doesn't regognize her own self. You'll have to read the book to see the the ending. This is a must read, you wont be able to take your eyes of the pages!
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