Pictures, 1918
Author: Jeanette Ingold
List Price: $5.99
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ISBN: 0141306955
Publisher: Puffin (April, 2000)
Sales Rank: 271,409
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
A view from the cameras eye
Pictures 1918 is a Very good book, Because in the beginning it starts with this young girl Asia who is a nice quite girl who loves her Grandama, and the animals she keeps in her barn. But there is this big fire that starts in her grand fathers barn and no one knows who starts it, but in the shadows Asia sees a dark figure escaping into the dark! talk about suspense unfortunately one of her favorite pets die her jackrabbit(:( . But to make a long story short, she falls in love with this camera and dreams of becoming a photographer and so she ends up working in a camera shop and finally hers dream has come true.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Masterfully Written!
The story starts on the night of a fire that destroys the chicken house of 17 year old Asia. The fire also destroys Asia's beloved baby jackrabbit Straw Bit. Afterwards she sees a camara in the window of a store and decides that one way, or another, she'll get that camara. If only she had had it before, she would have had a picture of Straw Bit, and one of the figure she saw running away from the burning building.The book explores Asia's confusion as two boys compete for her affection: Nick, the boy she has known all her life, and the other,Nick's cousin, a stranger from out of town. While she struggles express her feelings with photography,other fires rage across her small town, and she watches as the lifestyle she has known forever threatens to blow away like ashes in the wind.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Pictures, 1918
This is a really great book!!! It shows how you don't have to have a camera to have memories, but they also help to see how some people really are. Her grandmother, her neighbor and friend, Nick, and his cousin, Boy, teach her a lot about herself. She learns about different sides of people and a lot about photography.
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