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Solomon is full of anger – with the teachers and his father who have failed him, with his mother who has left him, and also with himself. He cannot bear to be at school or home. His refuge is one corner of the kirkyard, where nothing flourishes except a single rowan tree. Then workmen uproot the tree and, as it dies, a terrible force comes to life. WorldCat participating libraries report holding Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Thai, and Korean-language editions. [4] Origins [ edit ] I remember reading this in Year 6 (depressingly, 16 years ago...). It was a real step up from anything we'd read before (hearing my teacher reading the words "pain in the bloody arse, that's what I'd call it" was a highlight - naughty words!), so I had to read it again. urn:lcp:whispersingravey0000bres_t4h7:epub:e805cd6c-ecd5-4919-af51-be0990519f1c Foldoutcount 0 Identifier whispersingravey0000bres_t4h7 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t03z73t8w Invoice 1652 Isbn 0749723882 I was very disappointed after finishing this book, and I don't know on what grounds it won the Carnegie Medal.

Om alleen te zijn, verschuilt Simon zich dikwijls op een oud kerkhof. Maar dan beginnen er rare dingen te gebeuren op het kerkhof. Er worden werken uitgevoerd om de rivier te verleggen. Graven zullen worden weggehaald en de oude lijsterbes wordt gekapt. Simon ziet dit met lede ogen aan. Ook ontdekt hij dat op een stuk grond waar niets wil groeien, een heks begraven is. Solomon hears that bodies buried in a graveyard died of smallpox and if disturbed could spread the infection again, but the real danger is of a supernatural nature.

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Theresa Breslin is the critically acclaimed author of over 30 books for children and young adults whose work has been filmed for television, broadcast on radio, and is read world-wide in many languages. A respected contributor to professional journals, she is passionate about children’s literature and literacy. She travels extensively, doing research for her books and speaking at international conferences and book festivals. Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA18105 Openlibrary_editionDon’t they just?’ he agrees at once. ‘Every single one is an individual tribute to the art of the stonemason. Each humble tradesman or worker would have his own emblem to show his craft.’ He laughs. ‘Even a miller had one.’ He walks across to a very old stone. ‘Look, this one has a sheaf of corn and the weighing scales. Not that millers were very popular. It was a widely held belief that they were dishonest, taking more than was their due of the corn they ground.’ And yes, every part of Whispers in the Graveyard both my inner child and also my adult self have generally only found annoying, unrelatable and simply majorly textually frustrating. For while Theresa Breslin begins Whispers in the Graveyard as a realistic novel (describing the desolate struggle of main protagonist Solomon trying to unsuccessfully cope with severe dyslexia at school), the author gives her young readers far too many problems and which are also simply thrown at them like some huge shopping list but never really in any manner actually and truly examined (with Solomon's mother having left, his father being an alcoholic, most of Solomons's teachers being described and depicted as unbelievably one-dimensional bullies, and new teacher Mrs. Talmur then appearing like a deus ex machina heroine, immediately noticing Solomon's learning issues and basically at once staring to successfully remedy and fix his dyslexia), leaving a feeling of extreme textual shallowness for Whispers in the Graveyard and with in my opinion every presented character (including the main protagonist, including Solomon himself) not at all fleshed out and just existing and acting within Theresa Breslin's text like undeveloped and thin cardboard cutouts. She won the Carnegie Medal, the UK’s most prestigious award in children’s literature, for Whispers in the Graveyard, her compelling story of a dyslexic boy. Before taking up writing full time Theresa worked as a librarian. Her books range from those for younger readers such as The Magic Factory series to middle readers like Bullies at School and the four Dream Master books - funny time-slip adventures exploring aspects of storytelling. She writes books for children and young adults, with some titles especially suitable for EAL readers. Divided City, exploring themes of prejudice, friendship, citizenship and conflict resolution has been shortlisted for ten book awards, winning the Catalyst Book Award and the RED Book Award. She has a range of historical novels including the The Nostradamus Prophecy and bestselling Remembrance and The Medici Seal, touching on the life of Leonardo da Vinci and shortlisted for the Book Trust Teen Book Prize and the Royal Mail Children’s Book Award. She has also written shorter books - her most popular title being Alligator, published as a play for schools. She started writing without a story but "a ring road was being built in my home town, and to do this it was necessary to move the interred bodies out of an old graveyard which lay in the path of the new road. One of the graves included a mass grave of smallpox victims (children) When the news became public there was a big scare." [5] Plot introduction [ edit ]

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On a school trip to research the history of a graveyard, a group of students unearth a lot more than they bargained for! This excellent adaptation retells Theresa Breslin’s timeless, Carnegie medal-winning story. No, and perhaps not for some time. There may be a problem.’ Professor Miller pauses for a moment or two. ‘Oh, I might as well tell you. It will be in the local newspaper this week anyway. It’s almost certain that smallpox victims were interred here. I will have to do a search of the Burial Register in Glasgow before we commence exhumations.’ This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Whispers in the Graveyard' is also delightfully creepy for a book whose target audience I'd guess to be about 11-13ish.

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a b "Theresa Breslin: Whispers in the Graveyard: Research". Theresa Breslin. Retrieved 10 September 2012. Breslin leaves her readers on the edge of their seat, gripped by the storyline and unable to put the book down. According to the author, her work as a librarian exposed her to "parents asking for books about dyslexia, for names of help groups, names of special tutors etc." She attended a local meeting of the British Dyslexia Association and recognised the pain and frustration of children, their families, and educators. She determined to write a book featuring a boy, in the first person and present tense. [5] I honestly do not really understand how (and why) Theresa Breslin was awarded the 1994 Carnegie Medal for her middle grade ghost story Whispers in the Graveyard (and that indeed some of the Carnegie nominees for 1994 I have read such as in particular Michael Morpurgo's Arthur High King of Britain are in my opinion vastly superior to Whispers in the Graveyard). For honestly, Breslin features in Whispers in the Graveyard (and in a short, choppy and majorly unflowing writing style that I for one can only actively despise) far too many and often even rather adversarial and contradictory plots and genres at the same same time and with the featured text thus at times even seeming almost inadvertently ironic and satiric, as Theresa Breslin's multiple story threads, themes and genres for Whispers in the Graveyard are not only majorly outline-like and feel more like a brainstorming exercise, in a supposedly finished and completed novel this also feels like nothing is actually taken sufficiently seriously (and with the literary mish-mash encountered in Whispers in the Graveyard also leading to multiple plotlines which frustratingly and annoyingly equally seem move and meander all over the place without really ever successfully and believably intersecting, mixing, and not to mention not coming to any decent conclusions either, or perhaps more to the point moving towards an ending for Whispers in the Graveyard that in fact makes little to no common sense and frustratingly unbelievable). Solomon is a Scottish boy in the last year of primary school who is considered to be stupid and lazy, though he is actually dyslexic. He is bullied by his form teacher at school, and at home his father, who it is revealed is also dyslexic, drinks all the time and neglects him. Solomon often goes to the local graveyard for refuge.Simon kan niet goed mee op school. Zijn leraar pest hem voortdurend. Ook op persoonlijk vlak heeft Simon het moeilijk. Zijn vader is aan de drank en zijn moeder heeft hen verlaten. Op het einde wordt het verhaal wel wat griezelig, en je weet niet goed wat nu de fantasie van de kinderen is of de werkelijkheid. (Of hoe de fantasieën in werkelijkheid geïnterpreteerd kunnen worden). A great, creepy little read with important stuff to say about bullying and learning to face up to your problems.