Overall, if you enjoy reading historical fiction interwoven with a magical tale, music, and courage, this book is for you. Readers can identify with the incredibly realistic characters and find role models in countless characters. Richly imagined and structurally innovative, Echo pushes the boundaries of form and shows us what is possible in how we tell stories. Sweeping across years and place, Ryans full-bodied story is actually five. Everyone is dealing with some sort of tragedy, but they all learn to prevail and find hope. Echo Pam Muoz Ryan Echo Lost and alone in the forbidden Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. A multilayered novel set in turbulent times explores musics healing power. Good messages and role models are everywhere in the story.
Nothing in the book is too violent for someone ten years old or older, so it can provide a good history lesson. Readers will learn about the history of World War ll, including Pearl Harbor, Japanese detainment camps, and the Holocaust without too much violence or language involved. Overall, the book had a lot of educational value. The book also has completely killer cliffhangers which will make you read the entire book in one sitting. The sadness is haunting, and it will stay with you after you've finished. In addition, each story had so much grief, and it was present as much as the music was. It was about music as much as anything else, how music can make you happy, how you can pour all your feelings into a song and the world can feel what you're feeling, how music can change you, uplift you, give you courage in the darkest of times. It was about several injustices from the 1930s and 40s, like the beginning of the Holocaust in Germany, and poverty and Japanese detainment camps in the U.S., but it was also about music.
It pulled me in as soon as I started reading, and it was was beautifully written. OL17342476W Page_number_confidence 95.67 Pages 602 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.11 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210416132419 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 821 Scandate 20210406212628 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780439874021 Tts_version 4.I read this book all in one go on a long car ride, and I couldn't put it down.
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