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Synopsis
Morgan is bored with his life. Nothing exciting ever happens in his house. He can calculate his parents' daily routine to the exact minute. He feels old before his time, with nothing to look forward to but more boredom.
Then one dreary Sunday, Morgan has a vision of a magnificent fish, a leaping marlin wild in the sea, a creature so free that it would rather die than be tamed. The dream (if dream it is) is so vivid, Morgan feels a shocking rush of strength and speed racing through his veins, smells the salt air, and tastes the electricity of an impending ocean storm. For one brief exhilarating moment, sitting in a cramped apartment on a city block where every building looks exactly like the next, Morgan is that marlin, and from that moment on, he begins to change.
A comic Metamorphosis for kids, this poignant, gently humorous, and highly original tale by actor, playwright, and first-time novelist James DeVita is a tender testament to following one's heart. Through a series of miraculous and sometimes ridiculous events, Morgan comes to understand that he has the power to be whatever he wants to be -- even a fish -- as long as he believes in himself.
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About the Author
James DeVita, a native of Long Island, NY, is an author and playwright. Along with his two novels, The Silenced and Blue, he has also written more than sixteen plays and adaptations of classics for young audiences. He is the resident playwright for First Stage Theater for Youth. His plays have been awarded the Distinguished Play Award by the American Alliance of Theater and Education; the Intellectual Freedom Award by the Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts; and he is a recipient of a Literature Fellowship for Fiction by the National Endowment for the Arts. James lives in Spring Green, Wisconsin with his wife and two children.
From School Library Journal
Grade 5-9-Morgan's life is boring, his overprotective parents are dull, and his weekends are routinely uneventful. Then the boy dreams of being visited by a massive and beautiful fish, and suddenly his imagination becomes the mainstay of his life. When he becomes sick and feverish, he's rushed to the hospital, where his imagination and dreams merge, and thus begins Morgan's strange metamorphosis into a blue marlin. The doctors, smelling scientific glory, are driven to make medical history, and Morgan is curious and enthused about his situation. He's happy as a clam to be submerged into a big tank, his newly developing dorsal fin fanning out in full glory. The only unsettling conflict in his life is whether the doctors will perform emergency surgery to stop the mighty fin from completely emerging from, and simultaneously destroying, his spine. To the rescue come partially morphed marlin-men, helping Morgan to escape the surgery, and setting him free to swim away into the wild blue sea. The story unfolds slowly, scale by scale. While Morgan seems comfortable with his newfound destiny, there's never any driving cause that explains his need for such a dramatic transformation. Boredom on any given Saturday morning doesn't cut it. Without an emotionally engaged motive or monumental crisis to explain the protagonist's unquenchable desire to escape his life, the story remains shallow.
Alison Follos, North Country School, Lake Placid, NY
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0060295465
- ISBN 13 9780060295462
- BindingLibrary Binding
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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