Tile: Little (Grrl) Lost
Author: Charles de Lint
Publisher: Viking Juvenile, Sept. 2007
Pages: 268
ISBN-10: 0670061441
ISBN-13: 978-0670061440
Rating:
(5 Wonderful Stars)
What would you do if your new friend was trouble, a runaway, had blue hair, and was six inches tall?
Little (Grrl) Lost by Charles de Lint is about a girl named T.J. who moves from the country to the “burbs.” She has no friends. She’s lost everything she used to have, including her beloved horse Red. She hears a scratching sound in her bedroom and thinks mice live in the walls. One night while she is sitting up in the dark waiting to catch whatever is making the noise, a l6 year old girl walks out of a door in the baseboard, yelling at her parents, a girl who is no more than six inches tall.
That’s how T.J. meets Elizabeth, who looks and acts like any other sixteen year old rebel, only she’s a Little.
They become friends and they set out to find out more about Littles and where they come from. It turns out that there is an author in town who seems to know a lot about Littles, and she is doing a book reading at a local bookstore. This is their chance. T.J. hides Elizabeth in an old teddy bear to keep her safe (Elizabeth hates this). Everything is going fine, and then a group of boys gang up on T.J. and take her stuff, including Elizabeth! T.J. spends the whole day looking for her friend, and although she finds her backpack, it doesn’t contain her wallet, her cell phone, or Elizabeth.
I love the way Charles de Lint created strong girl characters and how he shows their strength with language, especially the words he uses for action, for example, on page 53 when the guy outside the bookstore tries to kidnap T.J.: “Reflexively, before she even realized what she was doing, she kicked him hard in the shin.” I love that.
I can’t wait to read more about T.J. and Elizabeth. I would recommend Little (Grrl) Lost to anyone who likes adventure, fantasy, and blue haired girls.
Amazon.com pre-order link:
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Grrl-Lost-Charles-Lint/dp/0670061441/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-6961007-3199049?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181493882&sr=1-1
More: http://www.sfsite.com/charlesdelint/littlegrrl-desc01.htm
Chloe Howard is a sixth-grader who reads everything that gets near her. She has even been in trouble for reading. . .in school! (Probably while she was supposed to be doing math). Little (Grrl) Lost is her favorite book from BEA 2007.
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