(For the 2013 A to Z Blogging Challenge, I will be featuring one book each day, that begins with that day's letter, that made an impression on me. This means that for some reason, I didn't just read that book and forget about it. No, I still think about it after some period of time has passed.)
Title: Girl Who Owned a City
Author: O. T. Nelson
Author: O. T. Nelson
Original Publication Date:
1979
Date I First Read: 1988
Basic Category: YA/Teen Fiction
/ Post-Apocalyptic
Basic Summary: Everyone who is above a certain age dies in a
plague/virus. Lisa and her brother are
left to fend for themselves in a Chicago
What I Remember (most) About
the Book: The kids barricaded themselves in a warehouse or school, I
think. Honestly, it was one of the
first apocalyptic books I ever read, and it made an impression on me, though I
remember that I liked Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence better.
What I Took Away From the
Book: Kids can survive in world without adults . . . if they can think like
adults sometimes.
Rating
(1-5 stars): 4.0 stars – I would have
given it four stars back then. Now, I
don’t know. I re-read it in 2006 or so. Portions left me wondering, and asking “Would
I have really been able to drive a car at 10?” (I was maybe almost tall enough
with the seat pulled up.) I think I am
going to have to find it, if I can, and read it again.
5 comments:
Hello -- just checking in from AtoZ challenge.
Very interesting. I may need to check this out. At 10 my son would have been tall enough to drive a car, but definitely not my daughter.
There are plenty of books that I read when younger that I haven't been back to since, and I wonder if they still have that something that compelled me all those years ago.
I'm going to have to dig a few out and find out now.
Greetings from the A-Z Challenge!
I've never read this book. Sounds interesting.
I think my question about these books is similar to yours: would kids really respond this way? Would they be mature enough?
Probably depends on the kids...
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