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The spirit of Ben's girlfriend Marly returns with three other ghosts to haunt him with a painful journey though Valentine's Days past, present, and future, in a twist to the Dickens classic.
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David Levithan is the author of the ALA Best Books for Young Adults Boy Meets Boy and The Realm of Possibility, and Are We There Yet? He lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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Brian Selznick is the Caldecott Honor–winning illustrator of The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley, When Marian Sang by Pam Muñoz Ryan, Dulcimer Boy by Tor Seidler, Frindle by Andrew Clements, The Doll People by Ann M. Martin, The Houdini Box, and many other books for children. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Grade 7-10–In this modified version of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Scrooge has been replaced by Ben, a high school student whose girlfriend has passed away, leaving him extremely cynical about love as Valentine's Day approaches. The creatively mutated story follows the basic action of the original as the teen is visited by Marly's ghost, then three spirits: The Ghost of Love Past, The Ghost of Love Present, and...well, you know. While this seems like a promisingly inventive way to address bereavement, nothing quite clicks in this remix of the classic. Prior knowledge of the original story seems to diminish rather than enhance the power of this adaptation. There are downright awkward moments, too. The character Tiny Tim has morphed into a pair of gay freshmen, Tiny and Tim, for example, and the young lovers' presence in the story seems gratuitous and synthetic. Selznick's pen-and-ink drawings, while very well done, don't quite seem to fit in either, reflecting the overall problem the story has establishing and sustaining a uniform tone and mood.–Jeffrey Hastings, Highlander Way Middle School, Howell, MI
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- PublisherDial
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0803730632
- ISBN 13 9780803730632
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages176
- IllustratorSelznick Brian
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