Sharon Creech. (2009). The Unfinished Angel. Unabridged HarperCollins.

Sharon Creech. 2009. The Unfinished Angel. HarperCollins.

Sharon Creech, The Unfinished Angel. HarperCollins, 2009.

Sharon Creech. The Unfinished Angel. Unabridged HarperCollins, 2009.

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     Sharon Creech has written twenty-one books for young people and is published in over twenty languages. Her books have received awards in both the U.S. and abroad, including the Newbery Medal for Walk Two Moons, the Newbery Honor for The Wanderer, and Great Britain's Carnegie Medal for Ruby Holler.

     Before beginning her writing career, Sharon Creech taught English for fifteen years in England and Switzerland. She and her husband now live in Maine, "lured there by our grandchildren," Creech says.

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Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech crafts a truly endearing story, one that is imbued with happiness, wonder, and an appreciation for all the little things that make life big. With beautiful, fresh new cover art, this is a gem of a book.

In the winding stone tower of the Casa Rosa, in a quiet little village in the Swiss Alps, lives one very unlikely angel—one that is still awaiting her instructions from the angel-training center. What happens to an angel who doesn't know her mission? She floats and swishes from high above, watching the crazy things that "peoples" say and do. But when a zany American girl named Zola arrives in town and invades the Casa Rosa, dogs start arfing, figs start flying through the air, lost orphans wander in, and the village becomes anything but quiet. And as Zola and the angel work together to rescue the orphans, they each begin to realize their purpose and learn that there is magic in the most ordinary acts of kindness.

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   • content: The narrator of Sharon Creech's latest book is an angel who feels confused, unfinished, and unsure of what she is supposed to be doing. Her uneventful life is upset by the arrival of Zola, a girl who sees the angel and challenges her to "do something" about a group of neglected homeless children. This is a story that is improved by its transition to audio and the serendipity of a talented narrator. Samantha Quan's delivery is smooth, and she carries off Angel's unique mangling of words without sacrificing meaning. It's obvious Quan enjoys channeling this personable character. Listeners will be equally charmed by this unfinished angel who finds her purpose. N.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
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     Starred review from September 28, 2009
     As adept at writing fantasy as she is creating slice-of-life novels, Newbery Medalist Creech (Walk Two Moons
     ) again works her magic, offering an offbeat tale set in a small village in the Swiss Alps. The narrator is an endearingly flawed angel, who has trouble with “peoples’ ” language (“I am supposed to be having all the words in all the languages, but I am not”) as well as uncertainty about his (or her) mission (“Do the other angels know what they are doing? Am I the only confused one?”). When discovered by an energetic and imaginative child named Zola, the angel finally finds something more meaningful to do than “floating and swishing” around the village (“Know and
     fix? How does Zola know these things?” thinks the angel). Working together, the two create small miracles, instilling compassion in villagers, bringing lonely people together and finding refuge for a group of orphan children hiding in the mountains. Uplifting and full of vibrant characters, this book shows that angels come in all shapes and sizes and can sometimes even be human. Ages 8–12.

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     September 1, 2009
     Gr 4-6-Some books are absolute magic, and this is one of them. The main character, an unnamed angel, is a plucky creature with a bumbling vocabulary that is laugh-out-loud funny as well as a sassy running commentary about the "peoples" who reside in a small village in the Swiss Alps. Kids will giggle at the mischievous side of Angel, who throws pinecones at irritating mortals and smashes figs for fun. Angel can only be seen or sensed by the book's childrenfirst and foremost, by spunky Zola. She is a free-spirited young girl who wears a trio of rainbow-colored dresses at any one time and teams up with the angel to bring the tiny town out of a time-worn gloom with good deeds, namely rescuing a motley crew of orphans with touching and humorous results. Creech's protagonist is hugely likable. Angel has moments of self-doubt and impatience that are appealingly human, while there is a sweet exchange with Zola about the potential of people to already be angel-like in this existence by using their lives for good. Thanks to the author's signature eloquence in detail, readers will wish that they, too, could live in the village among the quirky cast of characters. Creech's offering deserves to be read out loud and more than once to truly enjoy the angel's hilarious malapropisms and outright invented words, and to appreciate the book's tender, comical celebration of the human spirit."Alyson Low, Fayetteville Public Library, AR"

     Copyright 2009 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     July 1, 2009
     Grades 4-6 In the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland, an American man and his daughter, Zola, move to a small town hoping to establish an international school that promotes peace. It turns out that the building that they inhabit is occupied by a nameless angel, who is unsure of its true calling. As Zola and the angel bond, they discover a ragtag group of young orphans, whom they bring home to live with them, bringing youthful life back to the sleepy community of mostly elderly residents. Throughout, the language is written in a sometimes distracting, naive style: Sometimes a people needs an angel and sometimes an angel needs a people. I am also gladful the childrens came to our village. While there is less humor than one often expects from Creech, she stretches her already accomplished wings to provide an ethereal effect, somewhat reminiscent of Lois Lowrys Gossamer (2006), that will draw many readers to this metaphysical parable.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)

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     January 1, 2010
     From a tower high above the Swiss countryside, an angel watches over her village and the arrival of Zola, an American girl who turns the place upside down. Readers will delight in Creech's wordplay (fabbagrating, miffled, mishmasheroni) as the angel struggles to make sense of why "peoples" do what they do. A modern fairy tale with an allegorical undercurrent.

     (Copyright 2010 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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In the winding stone tower of the Casa Rosa, in a quiet little village in the Swiss Alps, lives one very unlikely angel—one that is still awaiting her instructions from the angel-training center. What happens to an angel who doesn't know her mission? She floats and swishes from high above, watching the crazy things that "peoples" say and do. But when a zany American girl named Zola arrives in town and invades the Casa Rosa, dogs start arfing, figs start flying through the air, lost orphans wander in, and the village becomes anything but quiet. And as Zola and the angel work together to rescue the orphans, they each begin to realize their purpose and learn that there is magic in the most ordinary acts of kindness.

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