Hugs on the Wind

Book Description

A lyrical, luminous picture book about missing a loved one.

Little Cottontail misses his grandfather and the hugs, smiles, and jokes they shared. As he plays in the meadow, he thinks of ways that the wind, stars, stream, and trees can help him send hugs, kisses, and other messages to his grandfather. The text is careful to leave open the question of whether grandfather is deceased or just living far away, making the book meaningful to any small child who misses a loved one.

Like Goodnight Moon and The Snowy Day, Hugs on the Wind celebrates a child's special connection to the world around him, and the power of nature to comfort.

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Ages 4 to 8? Try 4 to 80!.......2006-05-04

This book is a creative and beautiful way to deal with the universal theme of loss (in any and many forms) without using the words death, dying, or grief which often have negative or simply difficult connotations for children (and even adults!)
It is written beautifully by wonderful authors and the watercolor illustrations are soft and serene. Thank you for this beautiful work!
I'm buying it right now for my nephews, neices and most definitely for my very own children someday!

Delightfully Wonderful Story.......2006-05-01

I just had the opportunity to read this beautiful little story. What a gem! The other reviews are spot-on right: it's a *great* book for any child who needs a tool to help with any kind of separation issues, but it certainly isn't only for them! The story's elements of using one's imagination to solve a problem, awareness of nature and one's surroundings, love for family, and family communication are elements EVERY child can appreciate and enjoy -- especially in the fantastic way they're all woven together in this little tale. It's absolutely precious.

Deals wonderfully with emotional loss.......2006-04-29

I give this book top rating. I think the power of Hugs on the Wind is that it taps into a highly emotional human experience - loss of someone or something precious we wish were near - but it does so in such an uplifting way. I had the good fortune of attending author Vernise Elaine Pelzel's reading of this touching story, which is beautifully written and illustrated with a classic look. As I sat and listened, with my five year old triplets, I was impressed both as a mother and a teacher at how tenderly the issue of missing someone was portrayed. All three of my children enjoyed this book. One daughter said her favorite page was when the little rabbit told jokes to the river. She liked how Little Cottontail was able to help himself feel close to his grandfather, even though he was unable to see him. I anticipate reading HUGS, both as a bedtime story and as a "jump start," to help children deal with their feelings in a wide assortment of situations, like when we lost our beloved stuffed animal "Monkey" on a trip. Also, when I had to be away from home for a weekend and I was sorely missed. Now, sometime soon, they will be loosing their grandmother and Hugs will be very helpful. Hugs on the Wind is a wonderful addition to our family library. I highly recommend it!

Wonderful gift book for grandchild who lives a distance away........2006-04-23

Your grandchild, your son or daughter, and you will all enjoy the warm feelings that emerge from both the story and the pictures in this wonderful book, especially if your little one lives some distance away. The point of this book is absence and separation. When you give it, you will imagine your son or daughter reading it to your grandchild who just may be thinking about you as they hear it. The delightful illustrations richly reinforce this mood-- and give the young one some things to identify, like flowers, bunnies, and butterflies. This book is a perfect gift for any child who is apart from a loved one, regardless of why they are separated.

"Secret analogies tie together the remotest parts of Nature" Ralph Waldo Emerson.......2006-04-18

If you're looking for a children's picture book to help a little one accept the loss of
a loved one early in their life, you can't do better than "Hugs On The Wind."
The lovingly illustrated cover is a fitting prelude to a meaningful text. The meadow is the symbolic landscape where natural acts of affection are used as symbols of transmission;
such as sending a hug on the wind or a kiss to the moon to blow to the lost loved one.

The authors are to be congratulated on their idea to write a book that will help foster creative thinking in childen, as well as the notion that the dramas in life are best understood through the eye of the poet.

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A Gripping Mystery of the Navajo Culture
Blood Retribution/David&Aimee Thurle
A Craftily Written Novel Rich in Navajo History
SHADES OF SCARPETTA
Super mystery

Wind Spirit (Ella Clah)
Aimee Thurlo , and David Thurlo
Manufacturer: Forge Books
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ASIN: 0765304775

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series of politically-motivated arsons plague the Navajo Reservation. One fire kills the wife of an influential Navajo Councilmember. Ella Clah, Navajo Police Special Investigator, pursues the arsonist but is hampered by traditionalist Navajos' new fear of her. Ella's near-death experience during the collapse of an old mine-shaft has many Dineh wondering if Ella has become an evil spirit. Ella searches for the only medicine man who can cleanse her soul, but he is missing, and while she hunts for him, more Navajo homes burn to the ground.

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A Gripping Mystery of the Navajo Culture.......2007-09-04

I am definitely a fan of Aimee Thurlo and Davide Thurlo's Ella Clah mysteries. Yes, they have supplanted Tony Hillerman for me. At last, an intelligent female Indian officer who is embroiled in this book with the closing of the uranium mines in New Mexico. For those who have the eyes to comprehend, she deftly brings in the illnesses the Indians experience because of the mining. Few people are aware of how the mining on Indian reservations contributes to their health, but also their poverty.

This book brings out the subtle effects of a near-death experience, the superstition and fanaticism of people who cannot understand that there is something beyong death. The authors weave a realistic tale of conflict between the traditionalists and the modernists that is intense and holds the reader's attention. Bettye Johnson, award-winning author of Secrets of the Magdalene Scrolls.

Blood Retribution/David&Aimee Thurle.......2006-08-24

I have been a Tony Hillerman fan, then I got onto the Thurlo's also like the Coel Book that I chose. Am going to order more Thurlo's because our local library does not handle. Thank you so much for your (Amazon) speedy shipping and thd books were in perfect condition.

A Craftily Written Novel Rich in Navajo History.......2004-06-07

Aimee and David Thurlo have added a ninth installment to their Ella Clah series. These novels take place on a Four Corners, New Mexico reservation where Clah is a special investigator for the Navajo Tribal Police. Her family is "traditionalist" and her brother Clifford is a respected hataalli, or medicine man, who at the start of the book is singing hatals. "These songs of blessing compelled the Navajo gods to bring good luck to the land the yellow dust had corrupted and give it new life. Navajo prayers were not petitions. If recited just right, it was believed that the gods couldn't fail to comply."

The rituals are part of a ceremony to kick off the demolition of warrens of abandoned uranium mines that are a danger to the population. Their demise fills the hopes of the tribe, which are vested in "NEED, which stood for Navajo Electrical Energy Development ? the Navajo Nation's first step toward a more prosperous future." The abject poverty on the Rez is palpable and the "lack of funds still took a heavy toll on the tribe's ability to provide and maintain emergency services. Police equipment was badly outdated and salaries hadn't been improved in years. Even the hospital was understaffed."

Ella follows her nephew and his friend when they wander away from the crowd. She sensed the danger they were in as they played "somewhere behind a cluster of boulders several yards away." After a quiet "lecture" about learning patience and warning them about the sick land, her nephew falls off a plank and was pulled into an ever-widening hole. "He dangled helplessly over the edge, staring at her with terrified eyes. 'I'm going to fall!' " Finally, she manages to lift him up to safely. As she tried to save herself, "a wall of sand came sliding down and before she could cry out, Ella felt herself plummeting down a narrow tunnel." When she is found and rescued everyone thinks she is dead. The EMTs are no longer working on her and have covered her with a sheet. At first even her brother considered her to be dead. But after an out-of-body experience, "Ella pushes [the sheet] aside and sits up. No need for CPR ? it worked." Ella is back. But for a Navajo just "coming back" is not that easy.

Various and sundry legends, stories, myths and rituals comprise the traditional and modern Navajo belief systems. Some of these are contradictory and put Clah in the strange position of having to prove she has not been "touched" or "contaminated" or "taken over" by evil spirits. She had an experience the year before that convinced her that "she'd discovered ? skinwalkers --- Navajo witches known for their practices and rituals associated with the dead --- [who] were using [the] old mines for their own purposes." But on this happy day she was convinced that "skinwalkers had apparently stopped using this site after authorities had destroyed a few of the larger shafts."

Clifford says, "Her wind spirit has drifted. We, as Navajos, are taught that life begins when wind enters the body at birth and that death happens when it leaves through the fingertips. I've tried to convince the [traditionalists] that once the wind spirit leaves ? it never returns to the person it left behind. It waits for another to be born. So you couldn't have been dead."

To clear her path and remove the shadow of death that has now shrouded her, Ella must assuage the fears of some of her people. She must be the focus of an obscure ceremony or "Sing" that is required in the circumstances. Clifford tells her, "Only one hataalii knows the Sing you need --- hastiin sdni which means 'old man'; [so aged he] was to be in his nineties. [Unfortunately] the Singer [she needs] has gone off on a spiritual journey. He's visiting the shrines of his clan and could be nearly anywhere." Clah knows she has no choice but to go looking for this person, and the sooner she gets started the sooner the Sing can be performed.

At first she has no luck in tracking the old man down. But in the interim she's called out on a vandalism call and then an arson/murder. Both are connected to the activism of the victims who are fighting for handgun registration on the reservation. The woman who died in the fire had been in a wheelchair for years as a result of a gunshot wound. She and her husband were at the vanguard of the new legislation and obvious targets of the rednecks who saw them as enemies.

As events unfold Ella is caught up in maintaining her dignity and keeping the respect of the people to whom she feels responsible. WIND SPIRIT is a craftily written novel that is rich in Navajo history and life on the reservation. Both the lead and supporting characters are deftly fleshed out, which adds verisimilitude to the different issues that confront them throughout the novel. Tension is high when the vandals keep at their ugly mission, a hostage crisis becomes full blown, and dead bodies mount as gunshots ring out in deafening finality.

By the end of the book Clifford speaks to his sister: "I heard from the hataalii we've all been searching for. He's finished his other business and will be here today. The Sing can begin this afternoon." When he left her and she took stock of her situation she found "it was clear that she'd have her work cut out for her during the coming months [despite the cleansing of the Sing] but for now she'd restore her own inner balance and harmony by joining her family. It was time to walk in beauty."

--- Reviewed by Barbara Lipkien Gershenbaum

SHADES OF SCARPETTA.......2004-04-29

I liked this book in spite of myself. It is a prime example of the "detective-as-target" school of mystery writing. Ella Clah not only has to cope with assorted bad guys trying to kill or maim her, she must also deal with being shunned by many of the traditionalist Navajos. Shades of Patricia Cornwell's persecuted heroine, Kate Scarpetta.

What redeemed the book in my eyes was that the Thurlos successfully mix Clah's police activities with details of the traditionalist practices of her mother and brother. The only homicide in the story is solved early. The remaining complications arise from factional conflict on the reservation. A couple of Ella's antagonists from previous books get their comeuppance. A pretty slight plot, but an enjoyable read.

Super mystery.......2004-03-31

During the closing of the uranium mines at Four Corners in the Navaho Reservation in New Mexico, a child almost falls through an abandoned mine shaft. Navaho Police Special Investigator Elle Clah rescues him but falls in the hole and the ground offers no hard holds to pull herself out. She manages to attract someone?s attention but before she can be rescued, she is drowning in a sea of sand. When she is taken out, they pronounce her dead and put a sheet over her, but she suddenly jumps up very much alive. She had a near death experience and everything she believes about the afterlife is challenged.

The shaft she fell in was once used by Skinwalkers and because of that the fact that she was declared dead, the traditionalist and the new traditionalists want her to have a special sing to remove the taint of death that clings to her. Only one man alive knows it and nobody knows where he is. A crime wave of arson, murder and numerous attempts on Ella?s life breaks out and Ella is hampered in her investigation because many Navaho won?t deal with her until she has the sing.

Aimee and David Thurlo always writes a great Native American police procedural but this work is one of the best because after almost being killed Ella realizes she has to make some changes in her life. WIND SPIRIT is as much a mystery as it is an anthropological story of the Navaho lifestyle. It is fascinating to see how many different cultural groups live on the reservation. The authors educate as well as entertain the readers by incorporating social issues that must be addressed into the plot.

Harriet Klausner

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Sweet and beautiful

Beautiful story and very inspirational

Laughter in the Wind

Manufacturer: Cheerful Cherub Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0975341707

Product Description

This beautifully illustrated story of a young butterfly named Bernadette goes beyond the traditional symbolism of metamorphosis, allowing the reader to share Bernadette's transition from the physical world and follow her into the spiritual realm. It is a lighthearted tale of a world beyond this existence that provides comfort for those preparing to depart this world and delivers a message of hope for those left behind.

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Sweet and beautiful .......2005-01-11

Trunz's *Laughter in the Wind* is unusually beautiful in its story, design, and illustrations. It is similar to Margaret Wise Brown's enduring books: It speaks gently but carries a deep message; one can get lost in the illustrations; and Tronz does not talk down to children. The idea of death as transformation is conveyed with appropriate apprehension, sadness, and poignancy while the pictures add joy. Though it is most appropriate for the pre-school and younger crowd, it will be enjoyed by all ages, including parents.

Beautiful story and very inspirational.......2005-01-08

This little book is a beautiful story for all ages.

THE HARD BOILED OMNIBUS - Early Stories from Black Mask: Sail; Taking His Time; Death in the Pasig; The Man Who Liked Dogs; Fly Paper; Inside Job; Red Goose; Red 71; Best Man; Kick Back; Clean Sweep; South Wind

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THE HARD BOILED OMNIBUS - Early Stories from Black Mask: Sail; Taking His Time; Death in the Pasig; The Man Who Liked Dogs; Fly Paper; Inside Job; Red Goose; Red 71; Best Man; Kick Back; Clean Sweep; South Wind
Joseph T. (editor) (Lester Dent; Reuben Jennings Shay; Ramon Decolta; Raymond Chandler; Dashiell Hammett; Raoul Whitfield; Norbert Davis; Paul Cain; Thomas Walsh; Ed Lybeck; Roger Torrey; Theodore Tinsley) Shaw
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GVZ3XC

Winds of Fury, Circle of Grace: Life After the Palm Sunday Tornadoes

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Makes you want to give your own children extra big kisses
A touching memoir of terrible loss and gradual healing.

Winds of Fury, Circle of Grace: Life After the Palm Sunday Tornadoes
Dale Clem
Manufacturer: Abingdon Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Makes you want to give your own children extra big kisses.......1999-10-17

I read Dale's book as soon as I could get it. Knowing him, his wife and children, I wanted to read what I was afraid to ask even a friend like Dale - "How do you survive losing a child?" Winds of Fury is Dale's version of the events around a tragic tornado in which many members of his wife's church died, including their four-year-old daughter. His story is painful, but filled with grace and hope. In places he is brutally honest, and in other places brutally funny. After I finished (which wasn't long because I couldn't put it down), I was thankful to God for giving me two beautiful children. I recall going into their rooms while they were asleep and giving them an extra kiss, painfully aware that Dale and Kelly could never do that for Hannah again. I was also filled with hope from reading the book. Dale reminded me that truly nothing can separate us from the love of God.

A touching memoir of terrible loss and gradual healing........1997-10-05

No one in northeast Alabama will ever forget Palm Sunday 1994. When deadly tornadoes ripped through northern Calhoun County, killing nearly two dozen people, a spring Sunday dedicated to beginning the holiest week of the Christian year became instead a stormy day of pain and loss. And yet, as the Rev. Dale Clem's memoir "Winds of Fury, Circles of Grace" demonstrates, the terrifying storms could not blow away the faith and devotion that would testify in no uncertain terms to a love and spirit that transcends disaster and death.

As the Rev. Kelly Clem led Palm Sunday services, including a children's pageant in which their 4-year-old daughter Hannah took part, Dale Clem was hundreds of miles away, leading a youth group on a spring break service trip to Oklahoma. The first report Clem received was sketchy, a message received from a cell phone call. "There's been a tornado," he was told. "It hit your wife's church... Kelly is in the hospital, the girls are okay; you need to call home." In the time it took for him to find his wife - interminable time - fear grew. No one had news about Hannah. Finally he was able to speak to Kelly, who told him: "Hannah is dead."

It was the beginning of a long day, a long week - a long year - of tears and mourning. "Winds of Fury, Circles of Grace" chronicles that year with touching honesty, neither shying away from sorrow nor forgetting joy. Clem captures the grief of a small congregation in a small town, where relationships are strengthened both by proximity and faith. He recounts unpleasant moments, such as hurtful and hateful notes received from zealots equating Kelly's ministry and the priesthood of women to Sodom and Gomorrah. And he shares many happy memories of Hannah - "Have I ever told you that I love you?" he would ask Hannah and her younger sister Sarah, and Hannah would giggle, "Oh, Daddy, you tell me that all the time."

The spirit of Hannah Clem is ever-present, dancing through these pages as she did through her life on earth, helping her father tell his tale of loss and redemption. Clem intersperses the chronological account of that Holy Week in 1994 - a week in which the message of death and resurrection resonated among the Piedmont hills - with good basic advice on confronting and accepting grief and healing. He begins this task with a quote from T.S. Eliot: "I said to my soul, be still, and wait.../So the darkness shall be the light,/and the stillness the dancing." He speaks to everyone who has known the darkness of death - encouraging by example, unafraid to recount his moments of weakness and weeping and glad to witness to a faith in life and in Christ which ultimately led both Clems through the valleys and shadows of the first year to a place of new hope and understanding.

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Death Wind (Mack Bolan, No 126)
Don Pendleton
Manufacturer: Gold Eagle
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0373611269

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Who Will Wind the Clock?
Margaret T. Jensen
Manufacturer: Harvest House Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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A Spiritual Journey through Change

It's all about Change

Renewal

The Winds of Change: A Guided Journey with Healing Music through Grief, Loss & Transformation
Marcia Breitenbach
Manufacturer: self
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Binding: Paperback

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Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief

ASIN: 096705074X

Book Description

This innovative book and CD combination provides inspiration and useful tools for healing spirit, mind, body and heart. The author, an expressive arts grief and loss therapist and musician, has combined her expertise in the field of grief and loss with 14 of her original healing songs to create a multi-dimensional healing package.

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A Spiritual Journey through Change.......2004-11-28

As a very good friend of mine made his transition when I was about one-third of the way into this book, I read the remainder of it before his funeral so that I could pass it on to my friend's widow. I knew she would be grieving and that this book would be of great help to her.

The book is about dealing with grief, loss, and transformation. "Each one of us can travel the road of transformation with awareness and choice," the author, a grief counselor, states in the Introduction. "So many of us make an unconscious choice to be a victim to its ups and downs." The author's objective is to show a way to respond "empowered" to all life's changes and challenges, not just death.

"It is how we look at these losses and changes that can make a difference between becoming a victim of change and grief energy, or learning to channel this energy to higher purpose," she continues, going on to offer a six-step program or "journey" by which to face the challenge. Woven through the six steps, are 13 affirmations designed to punctuate the journey and serve as day-to-day reminders. There are also a number of "reflections," pertinent verbiage extracted from the text to highlight the messages, while also serving as day-to-day lessons for those who find themselves struggling and in need of reinforcement. A very big bonus to the written word is a CD offering music which touches the heart and soul. I found the music very comforting as I drove the 600 miles to my friend's funeral.

The author explains how she has met some of her own challenges as well as describing how others have dealt with the adversity accompanying change and loss.

The book is about transformation. It is about healing the soul and allowing it to become whole again. It would be a great gift to give someone who is experiencing a difficult change or loss.

It's all about Change.......2004-10-05

I loved this book! At first I thought it was only going to be about grief, but it is really about change. We all have change happening to us. The book helps you to look at whether or not you want to handle the changes kicking and screaming, or whether you would feel better if you could embrace the change and all of the good things it can bring to your life. At first I didn't understand the power of the musical CD, but by the end of the book, I was singing lyrics throughout the day, affirming wonderful things to myself. This book is easy to read, and the author's wit clearly shines through.

Renewal.......2004-07-06

Marcia's book eloquently offers a step by step guide to lead you to your own personal healing journey and new found fulfillment.

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LIfe, Death and Resurection

Wind River Winter
Virginia Stem Owens
Manufacturer: Regent College Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1573830909

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To read the books of Virginia Stem Owens is to understand what Dylan Thomas once called ?the mystery of having been moved by words.? Her style is contemplative, ecstatic, tender ? always yearning for a purer vision of reality and grace. Wind River Winter is her account of watching the world die and be reborn in the desolate Wind River mountains of Wyoming. By attuning her mind to the enormous cadence of autumn and winter, she contemplates the balance of life and death?the world?s and her own. Her writing, as beautiful as the best of Annie Dillard or John McPhee, will appeal to anyone who finds the power of language as awesome a power as nature itself. Virginia Stem Owens is the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed Feast of Families. She is a frequent contributor to the Reformed Journal and other publications. She lives near Huntsville, Texas.

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LIfe, Death and Resurection.......2003-10-20

Virginia Stem Owens journey from September to March in the Wind Rivers is not just a story about getting to the otherside of today. It is her story of dying, not a physical death but a spiritual death of sorts that she calls all of us to do over and over in life. This is a book of letting go of our past life and living our present.
"I went on down the trail, maneuvering the switchbacks and trying to keep my analogies under control. For I sometimes thought I heard wings overhead myself.
There is a dove in heaven, we know, that descends when the skies open, sometimes in fire. But perhaps there is also a hawk in heaven that swoops down on us with the gift of death to deliver us from our used-up past we have neither the courage nor the imagination to walk away from." (Owens 11)

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Tempting for those who "don't like to read"

Death Wind (Orca Soundings)
William Bell
Manufacturer: Orca Book Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1551432153

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Allie is caught up in a tornado that threatens to destroy everything. (RL3.2)

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Tempting for those who "don't like to read".......2003-08-04

Allie, newly pregnant, recently single, and having just flunked three of her four classes, escapes from her problems and turbulent home life by going on the road with her friend, neighbor, and coincedently, National Skateboarding Champion Razz. Caught in a storm that escalates into a tornado on the way home, the teens become unlikely heroes.
Death Wind and Sticks is part of Orca's new Soundings series for reluctant readers. Penned by award-winning Canadian authors, the short themetic novels are designed for classroom use with special appeal for the reluctant reader. Large print type and simply constructed sentences combine with a flashy neon title and striking color photograph to hook. Characterization is a bit flat, perhaps because of the brevity of the novels, but the plot is strong (if not complex). Vivid action scenes in Death Wind include skating competition, a fistfight, and a major tornado. Based on real life events, the books are ideal for discussion and could even create a neat segway into current events. Highly recommended.

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