storieslulureads's review against another edition
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
This novel explores the challenges of living on an unreliable income stream. The beautiful backdrop of sunflower field's and marshes all have a key aspect to the story. They are all motifs nothing is only mentioned once they come back later.
The pull that sunflower has on the entire community forces the audience to also fall in love with her
Family and community ties are shown to be strong and lasting from the experiences they faced together thos motif was used at the end and beginning
This is a middle grade book so the language is simpler and the sentences are more fractured ie. the topics switch each sentence so it is harder to read quickly and why I took so long to get into it
But if this book is given to lower than middlegrade level reader understand that sunflower is the MCs name snd there are lots of sunflower field's around the community so they may get confused
The pull that sunflower has on the entire community forces the audience to also fall in love with her
Family and community ties are shown to be strong and lasting from the experiences they faced together thos motif was used at the end and beginning
Spoiler
when the aunties from the cadre village who petitioned for sunflower to be adopted by the community then right at the end to take her back to the city for schoolThis is a middle grade book so the language is simpler and the sentences are more fractured ie. the topics switch each sentence so it is harder to read quickly and why I took so long to get into it
But if this book is given to lower than middlegrade level reader understand that sunflower is the MCs name snd there are lots of sunflower field's around the community so they may get confused
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death
Content warnings that aren't in the drop downSpoiler
there is a famine in the book so near the end is description of malnutrition
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