Ebook {Epub PDF} Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy

Cassedy's three novels, Behind the Attic Wall (), M.E. and Morton (), and Lucie Babbidge's House () are all intricate, leisurely paced novels about troubled or difficult protagonists who gain self-esteem through the intervention of possibly magical characters. The author's incisive characterizations, carefully wrought prose, and. An American author of picture books, poetry, and 4/5.  · I read you the first chapter of 'Behind the Attic Wall'.  · What makes "Behind the Attic Wall" a fresh departure from the familiar is its provocative, ultimately ambiguous blend of realism and fantasy. Cassedy's characterizations are completely unsentimental. Maggie--an Indian-burn-inflicting, sassing, stealing, hair-sucking antiheroine--is more raw than any Cindarella/5.

Compare book prices from over , booksellers. Find Behind the Attic Wall () by Cassedy, Sylvia. "Behind the Attic Wall," by Sylvia Cassedy is a rather strange Victorian tale about a young orphan girl who is thrown out of boarding school and ends up living with her great aunts. Maggie never lasts long at any boarding school. She doesn't get along with the other students at all, and she is always in trouble with the teachers. Behind the Attic Wall is a children's novel by Sylvia Cassedy, first published in Synopsis. At twelve, Maggie has already been thrown out of numerous foster homes and boarding schools for lying, stealing, and disobedience. At last she comes to Adelphi Hills—itself a former boarding school—to live with her only living relatives: Great-Aunts Lillian and Harriet and her eccentric, but.

'Behind the Attic Wall' is about a troubled girl named Maggie who has, since her parents died. Cassedy's three novels, Behind the Attic Wall (), M.E. and Morton (), and Lucie Babbidge's House () are all intricate, leisurely paced novels about troubled or difficult protagonists who gain self-esteem through the intervention of possibly magical characters. The author's incisive characterizations, carefully wrought prose, and. An American author of picture books, poetry, and fiction, the Brooklyn-born creative-writing teacher began her career with a few minor picture books. I read you the first chapter of 'Behind the Attic Wall'.