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    Falling In
    Falling In
    Falling In
    Audiobook5 hours

    Falling In

    Written by Frances O'Roark Dowell

    Narrated by Jessica Almasy

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    Edgar Award-winning author Frances O'Roark Dowell pens this imaginative tale that evokes such delightful classics as Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz. While waiting outside the principal's office at school, Isabelle Bean stumbles upon another world. It's just like a fairy tale-until Isabelle is mistaken for a witch, all thanks to her favorite pair of boots.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 14, 2010
    ISBN9781449824587
    Author

    Frances O'Roark Dowell

    Frances O’Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Award; Where I’d Like to Be; The Secret Language of Girls and its sequels The Kind of Friends We Used to Be and The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away; Chicken Boy; Shooting the Moon, which was awarded the Christopher Award; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Falling In; The Second Life of Abigail Walker, which received three starred reviews; Anybody Shining; Ten Miles Past Normal; Trouble the Water; the Sam the Man series; The Class; How to Build a Story; and most recently, Hazard. She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at FrancesDowell.com.

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    • 2/5
      I usually like Dowell's stories. This one, no so much.
    • 3/5
      I like this author very much. This was an odd twist on an old story but not anywhere near as good as the other books by Ms Dowell that I have read. Less than perfect from her is much better than many others!
    • 4/5
      Isabelle Bean has always known she was different. It isn't until she falls into a parallel world that she knows it's true. As she travels through this world, she gets caught up in the story the other children tell about a hungry witch. This is a fun story that plays on classic fairy tales, but gives them a link to real life. Girls and fans of books such as Sisters Grimm will enjoy the story.
    • 4/5
      This was an interesting book. I'm still not totally sure how I feel about it, or who I might recommend it to...
    • 3/5
      Fun read. Some elements of fairytales are included in the story - rumors of wicked withces that eat children. I listened to it and didn't care for the reader. By the same author as Secret Language of Girls, also a good read.
    • 5/5
      This is a book for anyone who has ever felt that they didn't quite fit in. I fell in love with this book with the line "educate your imagination". As a librarian I truly believe this is what reading does. So educate your own imagination and read this book!
    • 3/5
      I actually saw this book on the Amazon Vine program but never got around to requesting it. So I decided to pick it up at the library. It sounded like a neat book. Overall it was okay and decent, but nothing spectacular.Isabelle is different. She doesn't really get along with the rest of the girls her age and then she starts hearing this buzzing. She follows the buzzing to a closet at school and literally falls into another world. In this fantasy world there is an evil witch that is trying to eat kids; a witch that Isabelle really wishes she could meet. Isabelle's time in this other place will teach her a lot about herself and maybe even teach her something about friendship.Overall this book is okay. It was very readable and written in a friendly off-hand type of tone that comes off as kind of funny at times. Isabelle as a character is pretty uninspiring, you can understand why Isabelle doesn't have any friends; she doesn't really try to make herself approachable but goes out of her way to be different and difficult.I was hoping for a bit more magic and danger in this book, but all in all it was pretty tame and not all that creative. Isabelle meets a girl and learns how to make friends. They find out that the witch is not what they originally thought. There really isn't any blatant magic, no enemies, and the alternate world Isabelle falls into is much like our world but earlier in history. One bright part to the story is that later on in the book each chapter starts with a sketch of an herb and the herb's medicinal benefits; this was interesting and added some interesting information to the story.Although it was a fine book about friendship and finding one's place in life, I didn't find it particularly interesting. Young girls might enjoy this book but I think young adults and adults will be hard pressed to find much to intrigue them here. It is a very short book and maybe takes an hour or two to read. I personally would set my sights on something a bit more magical though.Overall an okay book. In general well-written. Not all that magical or interesting though. It is mainly about a young girl trying to find her place in life and struggling to make friends. I probably won't read Dowell's future books since they seem to focus more on social problems with young girls than with magic and fantasy.