Quicksand Pond

Name: Quicksand Pond
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Janet Taylor Lisle
ISBN: 9781501956959

Author: Janet Taylor Lisle

Narrator: Nina Alvamar

Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/16/2017

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Mystery & Detective, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

Newbery Honor winner Janet Taylor Lisle's gorgeous and profound new novel about a pivotal summer in two girls' lives explores the convictions we form, the judgments we make, and the values we hold. The pond is called Quicksand Pond. It's a shadowy, hidden place, full of chirping, shrieking, croaking life. It's where, legend has it, people disappear. It's where scrappy Terri Carr lives with her no-good family. And it's where twelve-year-old Jessie Kettel is reluctantly spending her summer vacation. Jessie meets Terri right away, on a raft out in the water, and the two become fast friends. On Quicksand Pond, Jessie and Terri can be lost to the outside world-lost until they want to be found. But a tragedy that occurred many decades ago has had lingering effects on this sleepy town, and especially on Terri Carr. And the more Jessie learns, the more she begins to question her new friendship-and herself.

About Janet Taylor Lisle

Janet Taylor Lisle is the author of several acclaimed novels for young readers, including The Art of Keeping Cool, winner of the Scott Oâ€™Dell Award, and these five School Library Journal Best Books of the Year: Sirens and Spies, The Lampfish of Twill Forest, A Message from the Match Girl, The Lost Flower Children, and Afternoon of the Elves, a Newbery Honor Book. She lives with her family on the coast of Rhode Island.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on June 14, 2017

2.5 stars. While it is based around middle grade characters and is middle grade appropriate, it wasn't written in a way that I think would appeal to the middle grade reader. As for my personal opinion of the story, it felt like it dragged often, especially for a short book. I just didn't care. I wou......more

Goodreads review by Kate on September 10, 2017

I did not enjoy this as much as I anticipated. I loved the concept behind it but it felt like book really dragged in the middle and it's not even a long book. What really killed me was the ending. There was no resolution and no answer to what happened to Terri or Henrietta. It felt like the author d......more

Goodreads review by Rena on June 27, 2017

5 stars. A book about children but not a children's book. Mature themes and a writing style more conducive to adults than the middle grade child. As an adult reader, I really was drawn into the story and the well developed characters. Not sure a young reader would feel the same. The ending was a bit......more

Goodreads review by Tonja on July 08, 2017

This is a tale of friendship, small town preconceptions, memories of the past and an ache to leave the world behind. Jessie's father decides to take her, her young brother and older sister off to a house near the beach, while the mother stays and works away. As always. But the house isn't nearly as l......more

Goodreads review by Kitkat on April 23, 2018

I think this book was interesting and enjoyable. I loved how Jessie finally understood Terri and how she knows that Terri isn't the villain. How everyone treats her so horrible was depressing and wrong. I don't think anyone should be treated that way and how the entire town was against her sending h......more