Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier

1 review

thrabenvaliant's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Great book! Read it to my 6 and 10 year old. There's a lot of heavy stiff covered in the book, from starvation and death, to child abuse and child labor, to love and loss. If I had it to do over, I would have read it through before reading it to my girls so that I could be better prepped for the conversations we would have.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Physical abuse, Confinement, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, Child death, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Abandonment