Drawing Lessons

I personally thought this book was amazing. I ended up reading it for a class project and i was glad i did pick it. It is about this girl named Rory and she is an excellent artist. Her father has taught her many stuff about art but one day he leaves her and her mother. She is devistated and she stop......more

This is an adolescent book very appropriate for young people facing the split of their parents. It explored the various stages that, in this case, a young girl goes through in dealing with her internal feelings toward both parents, how she attempts to hide what is happening from her best friend, car......more

At first, I thought this was about actual drawing lessons, with fundamentals and tips, but it was about a young kid trying to face the reality of her parents' separation. I think it shows the anguish feeling of a child, who (at a young age) starts to absorb reality. It is hard to face a passion that......more

I loved this character but this was a difficult topic. Well handled but difficult. I loved how the Rory worked through her anger and found her space. I also love how the author wrote about her artistic brain processing the world in colors.......more

What happens when everything that you know dissolves! A wonderful little book that shows what happens when life really gets hard emotionally--and how sometimes we humans manage to blunder through and find a way out of the mess we are in.......more