Here Lies Linc
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Delia Ray has written a funny, heartfelt story about a lonely kid and his mother as they ultimately cope with the grief left behind from his dad's death, and along the journey find new ways to connect with each other, and their community.
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Delia Ray. (2011). Here Lies Linc. Random House Children's Books.
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- bioText: When DELIA RAY was little, she and her sister and their cousin invented the Brave Girl Club as a way to make the long, hot summers in Tidewater, Virginia, a little more exciting. They dared each other to perform all sorts of daunting challenges—swims across an algae-covered, snake-infested pond, for example, or solo trips to the second story of an old, abandoned farmhouse hidden deep in the woods. Delia says she still uses her Brave Girl training today whenever she's conducting research for her books, which have taken her on adventures from the Yukon Territory in Canada to cemeteries spread across the state of Iowa. Between adventures, Delia lives in a house overlooking the Iowa River with her husband, three daughters, and a strange-looking mutt named Griff, who came from the animal shelter and provided the inspiration for C.B. in this book. Here Lies Linc is Delia's third novel for young readers.
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- When 12-year-old Linc Crenshaw decides he wants to go to public school, his professor mom isn't so happy with the idea. He's convinced it will be the ticket to a new social life. Instead, it's a disaster when his mom shows up at their field trip to the local cemetery to lecture them on gravestones, and Linc sees her through his fellow-students' eyes. He's convinced his chances at a social life are over until a cemetery-related project makes him sought-after by fellow students he's not so sure he wants as friends, helps him make a new, genuine friend, and brings to light some information about his family that upends his world.
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June 1, 2011
Can Linc hope for anything near a normal life when his widowed mother is an absent-minded professor specializing in burial customs?
Twelve-year-old Lincoln Raintree Crenshaw Junior knows it will be a difficult transition when he transfers to public school from "Home-Away-From-Home-School" (several faculty children—Ho-Hos—taught together in Dr. Lindstrom's basement). He didn't know his first official field trip would be to the Oakland Cemetery, which is literally in his backyard...or that his mother, Dr. Charlotte Landers, would be the one leading the tour. He convinces her to pretend he's just another student, but of course that goes horribly wrong. In an attempt to be cool, he decides he'll use the supposedly cursed Black Angel monument for his adopt-a-grave research project. Instead of cool he gets a heap of trouble from the new cemetery "warden," Mr. Kilgore, and a mysterious connection, through his father, to a grave adopted by another new student. Ray's tale, which centers around a real legend, strikes the perfect balance of humor, realistic chills and near-teen angst. Linc's problems with his eccentric mother, their shared grief over his father's unexpected death and Linc's trials at school are expertly woven into the dual mysteries: the real story of the Black Angel and a secret from his father's past.
Actual epitaphs from across the globe kick off each chapter for extra funereal fun. (Mystery. 9-12)(COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)
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September 1, 2011
Gr 5-7-Iowa City's Oakland Cemetery and legends about its Black Angel monument feature strongly in this suspenseful though warmhearted tale of family intrigue. Linc Raintree Crenshaw and his vaguely eccentric mom, Lottie Landers, a professor who studies burial customs, live in a house bordering the cemetery. Linc is stressed about starting junior high after having attended the small, private Home-Away-From-Home School, and Lottie seems unable to talk about her husband, whose sudden death soon after they moved to Iowa City has left Linc with unanswered questions. An Adopt-a-Grave assignment lands Linc in a fine mess when he steals a key to a crypt to impress the guys at school. His changing relationships with a diverse cast of interesting characters are central: old friend and cemetery handyman Jeeter; new, almost cartoonishly uncivil cemetery warden Kilgore; former classmate Mellecker, now a seventh-grade big wheel who surprises Linc with his friendship; the mysterious woman who visits the Raintree gravesite each Monday; elderly neighbor Mr. Krasny, who helps Linc translate the strange epitaph on the base of the Black Angel; and new girl Delaney, who has an adventurous spirit and great concern for her pregnant mother, who lost her last baby. Additional poignancy arises from discovering the facts of Linc's dad's birth. The satisfying resolution occurs when Delaney and Linc present their reports in situ-at the cemetery. Epitaphs are used as chapter epigraphs, and an author's note delineates fact from fiction.-Joel Shoemaker, formerly at South East Junior High School, Iowa City, IA
Copyright 2011 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Grades 5-8 Homeschooled 12-year-old Lincoln Crenshaw transfers to public school, hoping to find regular kids like himself. Linc is mortified when he learns that his class is starting an Adopt-a-Grave Project, and his mother, an expert on burial customs, is leading a tour of the graveyard. Embarrassed, Linc tries for coolness by researching the Black Angel, the scariest grave in the cemetery. As Linc and a new friend uncover the truth, he also discovers a secret linked to his own family. The setting and can't-miss premisebased on a real legendare sure to draw kids in, but it is the warm depiction of Linc's adolescent struggles to separate from yet hold on to family that is the heart of this book. The two mysteries are unusual, in that real kids could encounter and solve them, and readers unravel the puzzle along with Linc. Ray does a fine job with the characters, avoiding many of the social clich's. There's plenty of humor, including a terrific graveyard Greek chorus and actual epitaphs that lead off each chapter. A fresh, charming read-aloud.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)
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September 1, 2011
"Most people end their lives in a graveyard. Sometimes I think my life began there." This lightly suspenseful tale introduces twelve-year-old Lincoln, who's grown up next to Iowa's Oakland Cemetery with his "kind of unusual" mom, a professor specializing in burial customs. Now that he's starting junior high, however, Linc is ready to spend time with (living) people his own age; too bad his first American Studies assignment is to research one of the cemetery's graves. After a rocky start (his mom is the class's tour guide), Linc chooses the allegedly cursed Black Angel monument. His new friend Delaney picks the grave of a man named Raintree (Linc's middle name), and former-friend-turned-popular-guy Mellecker selects a locked tomb. As the students' work progresses, Linc befriends an elderly neighbor, discovers he has a grandmother, and gets into the popular crowd (though he betrays a friend to do it). Ray's characters are quirky and relatable, with genuine emotions -- even the book's villain. Linc, in particular, is an earnest, self-effacing narrator trying to both fit in and do the right thing by those he loves. The book is solidly rooted in history; an author's note explains Ray's research on the Black Angel, and epitaphs from well-known (Jack London, Emily Dickinson) and anonymous sources preface each chapter. rachel l. smith(Copyright 2011 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)
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Twelve-year-old Lincoln has grown up next to Iowa's Oakland Cemetery with his "kind of unusual" mom, a professor specializing in burial customs. His first junior high assignment is to research one of the cemetery's graves. Ray's characters are quirky and relatable, with genuine emotions; Linc, in particular, is an earnest, self-effacing narrator trying to both fit in and do the right thing.(Copyright 2012 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)
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Can Linc hope for anything near a normal life when his widowed mother is an absent-minded professor specializing in burial customs?
Twelve-year-old Lincoln Raintree Crenshaw Junior knows it will be a difficult transition when he transfers to public school from "Home-Away-From-Home-School" (several faculty children--Ho-Hos--taught together in Dr. Lindstrom's basement). He didn't know his first official field trip would be to the Oakland Cemetery, which is literally in his backyard...or that his mother, Dr. Charlotte Landers, would be the one leading the tour. He convinces her to pretend he's just another student, but of course that goes horribly wrong. In an attempt to be cool, he decides he'll use the supposedly cursed Black Angel monument for his adopt-a-grave research project. Instead of cool he gets a heap of trouble from the new cemetery "warden," Mr. Kilgore, and a mysterious connection, through his father, to a grave adopted by another new student. Ray's tale, which centers around a real legend, strikes the perfect balance of humor, realistic chills and near-teen angst. Linc's problems with his eccentric mother, their shared grief over his father's unexpected death and Linc's trials at school are expertly woven into the dual mysteries: the real story of the Black Angel and a secret from his father's past.
Actual epitaphs from across the globe kick off each chapter for extra funereal fun. (Mystery. 9-12)(COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)
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