Heaven Eyes (Laurel-Leaf Books Readers Circle)

This book just by looking at the cover will pull you right in. This is a fantasy, suspensful, mystery, with a little spooky feeling to it. When I read the back, it made me want to read the book, "Welcome into the world out of the dark." It made me feel like I had to find out what happens! I highly recommend this book to pretty much anyone, because it has a little bit of everything in it. Heaven Eyes is about kids who live at a place called White Gates. The kids live there because their parents died or couldn't take care of them anymore. The lady, who basicly runs the place is called Maureen, the kids aren't very fond of her, because she makes them do a circle time to talk about what happened to them. Erin, January, and Mouse decide to run away. They have ran away before but this time they want to get away! January built a raft out of three doors to sail across the river, but end up sailing right in to the black Black Middens. Grampa is digging on a moony night with Heaven Eyes, when they spot Mouse, Erin, and January in the black Middens. Grampa and Heaven Eyes drag them to shore. They bring them to the shelter of the printing works, Grampa's office. From there on they create a story that will last forever. This book has suspense, mystery, fantasy, and a little spooky feeling. I read "Skelling," another book by David Almond, and loved it! My cousin also reccomned this book to me, and David Almond now is my favorite author. I highly recommend

If you want to read a good book, well you better read this great book by David Almond, the author of "Kit's Wilderness" and "Skellig" along with many others. If you want suspence and adventure, then this is the book for you. "Heaven Eyes" is one of the best writen book I have ever read. if you read this book, then I promise you, you will be swept away in a world unknown to most of all mankind. This place is a place that you can escape to when ever you want. Heaven Eyes is a young girl living with her granfather in a wreackage site. Her life changes when Erin Law, January Carr, and Mouse Gullence get swept in with the tide from the "Black Middens". This book is truly one of the best books ever writen. Read this book, and you will understand one of the reasons we were put on tis planet.

I think this is one of the best books I have read ever. It is a great story and I love the way they discover the girl Heaven Eyes. This book is great and it is hard for me to imagine someone not liking it.David Almond is by far one of the best Authors I have ever read. His books are so good and not like anything I have read before. The Story is a mostly realistic enviroment but one element is added that is not real. (that being Heaven Eyes) It is about 2 kids that run away from where they lived, a center for 'damaged' children. This time they take a raft and float down the river until they get stuck in the Black Middens, which is a muddy part of the river. A girl with webed hands pulls them out tells them they are her brothers and sister. When she shows them to her grandpa he says they are not her brothers and sister, That they are ghosts. (which he refers to real people as) Erin Law (the main character) comes to Love Heaven Eyes as her sister and when her Grandpa dies they take her back to the place they live. Heaven learns that she was not just a creature pulled out of the mud, that she had a mum and a dad and 2 brothers too.This is one of the best books I have ever read and I would recomend it to almost any one.

Almond has once again struck a lovely dark chord with Heaven Eyes. His language is lyrical and addictive. Some may have found the language of Heaven Eyes'character irritatating, but I found it enchanting and it enhanced the fairy tale quality of this interesting book. Her voice is what the makes the story a great read aloud. The Black Middens, the warehouses, the debris, all of the settings, gave me a futuristic feeling, while at the same time, the characters felt of an older world....making the story timeless. Almond has a unquie way of taking the dark and mysterious, and turning it warm, emotional and familiar. Erin Law is a great female character...gutsy, and sensitive all wrapped up in one. If you are an Almond fan....here you go ....another great adventure from one of my favorite master storytellers.

Gifted Broadway, film and television actress Amanda Plummer brings excitement and drama to her reading of this imaginative tale. Erin and January have run away from the children's home before; they're both adventuresome and brave for ones so young. But this escape takes a frightening turn when they find themselves afloat on a deep, dark river, carried by powerful currents until they find a one-of-a-kind girl called Heaven Eyes. Now, not only does Heaven Eyes have a strange appearance - webbed hands and feet - but, she apparently has the ability to help these children find their place in the world. This is a story of courage, confidence, and comradery, a haunting narrative not easily forgotten.