About this book:
“Twelve-year-old
Angie Mangione lives with her parents and her five-year-old brother, Joey, in
New York City. After Papa is shot, Mama moves with Angie and Joey to Granny’s
house on a country lake in Florida. How can Angie cope with missing Papa,
moving to Florida, being the new girl at school, and living with her angry
teenage cousin at Granny’s house? Will Angie and Joey be able to survive the
mysterious danger that lurks in the lake? With all the changes in Angie’s life,
will she ever be happy again?”
Series: As of now, no, a stand-alone novel.
Spiritual Content- Scriptures are quoted, read, & discussed (& a few Scripture
are listed in the dedication); Prayers, Thanking God, & Blessings over food;
Hymns are sung at school in a music class; Church going & sermons (Palm
Sunday & Easter church services as well); Many talks about God, Jesus,
Heaven, receiving Jesus into your heart, & sins; ‘H’s are capitalized when
referring to God; Angie wonders what Jesus has to do with her as she hasn’t
done anything bad *Spoiler* towards the middle, she asks her mom how to receive
Jesus and after a thorough discussion, she prays *End of Spoiler*; Many mentions
of God, Jesus, accepting Him, & faiths; Many mentions of prayers, praying,
& blessings over food; Mentions of churches, church going, hymns, sermons,
& pastors; Mentions of Heaven & someone’s soul being there after they
died; Mentions of Bibles, and those & events in the Bible; Mentions of Christmas,
the Christmas story, & a nativity; Mentions of sins & sinning; A couple
mentions of missionaries; A mention of thanking God; A mention of a Bible
study.
Negative Content- The book starts with Angie coming home from school &
learning that her father has been shot (he tried to protect a cashier from being
robbed at a store, barely-above-not-detailed); Angie thinks of a plan to
runaway from their new home; Angie is worried at one point that an alligator might
kill someone; A close-call with an alligator & a nightmare the night after (the
alligator is killed, up to semi-detailed); Many mentions of the robbery, Angie’s
father being shot and killed, her family grieving, & the funeral (including
seeing the body in a casket, barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of assassinations
& the shooters; Mentions of deaths in car wrecks & hurricanes; Mentions
of a young boy being attacked by an alligator and it attacking (& killing)
a beloved pet dog (barely-above-not-detailed) & other alligator attacks; Mentions
of some people using guns to hurt people and some people using guns to protect
people (this includes a young teen aiming a rifle at a lake to protect those
swimming from an alligator, but Angie is scared by him doing this, though she
realizes that “guns could be horrible, but they could be useful too”); Mentions
of teasing/name-calling from kids at school; A few mentions of the Cuban
Missile Crisis & almost going to war; A few mentions of a workers’ strikes
& violence; A few mentions of a car accident & someone losing their
legs from it; A mention of someone who was killed by lightening; A mention of robbing
a bank; A mention of when Angie stolen candy from a store; A mention of lying;
*Note: Mentions of equal rights &
it being wrong that people are treated differently based on their skin color (including
a couple mentions of a bomb exploding at a church killing children); A few
mentions of a song & singer (Tony Bennett).
Sexual Content- N/A.
-Angela “Angie” Mangione, age 12
P.O.V.
switches between them
Set
in 1963
171 pages
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Pre
Teens- 
New
Teens- 
Early
High School Teens-
Older
High School Teens-
My
personal Rating-
{Lower the
ratings a full star for those sensitive about the death of a parent &/or animal
deaths.}
{The
ratings are lower as the girl gets older because of the simple plot-line, but
it is clean for all ages, depending on the sensitivity of the reader.}
Personally, this book wouldn’t have been for me when I was a pre-teen, though I can appreciate all the faith content in it. I do think it’s a bit loaded for sensitive middle-grade readers with the grieving of Angie’s father and the mentions of alligator attacks, but it was interesting to see a peek of the 1960s in a middle-grade story.
See y’all on Friday with a new
review!
*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this
author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.
*I received this book for free from the Author for this honest review.
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