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Children's Fiction Friendship

Seeing Red

by (author) Anne Louise MacDonald

Publisher
Kids Can Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2009
Category
Friendship, Adolescence
Recommended Age
10 to 14
Recommended Grade
5 to 9
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554532926
    Publish Date
    Feb 2009
    List Price
    $8.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781554532919
    Publish Date
    Feb 2009
    List Price
    $18.95

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Description

Frankie Uccello seems like just another fourteen-year-old boy --- Ace of Average, King of Common, Master of Middle. Everything he does has a tendency to turn out average. Even when Frankie dreams recurrently of flying, his father tells him that at least one in three people does this. He's perfectly normal, normal, normal.

Or is he? When Frankie discovers something ominous about his dreams --- that he can dream the future, especially when something bad is about to happen --- he realizes that he might be talented, after all. But seeing the future was only cool in movies and TV. In real life, you're just a whacko.

Besides, the future doesn't look good. One night Frankie dreams his best friend, Tim, falls from a horse. Is Tim going to be killed? Can Frankie save him? Something about the dream doesn't fit, and that something is Weird Maura-Lee, one of three people Frankie avoids like the plague. Maura-Lee can read minds, and she seems to be reading his.

About the author

Anne Louise MacDonald is a best-selling author of three picture books and two teen novels, including The Memory Stone and The Ghost Horse of Meadow Green. She lives in rural Nova Scotia with her husband and two horses.

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Awards

  • Winner, Best Books for Kids & Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre

Editorial Reviews

Evocatively written ... deftly mixes a touch of the supernatural into a realistic narrative.

Kirkus Reviews

The story has several touching moments and unexpected turns in a plot that intertwines the everyday vicissitudes at school and home with some seemingly supernatural twists.

School Library Journal

... this feels like a story from an earlier time, with warm, loving adult characters that nurture and support their children ... a guaranteed feel good ending.

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Librarian Reviews

Seeing Red

Frankie dreams of flying. But then he discovers that he can dream the future, which doesn’t look good. One night, Frankie dreams his friend Tim tumbles from a horse. Maura-Lee is the part of the dream that doesn’t fit. Frankie avoids her because she can read minds, and now she seems to be reading his.

Source: The Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Best Books for Kids & Teens. 2010.

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