Winter

This book touched me so badly, I cried. It has a beautiful, entrancing plot with an exciting climax. Winter is a likeable and richly textured character. John Marsden is one of the best authors of all time! If you read this book and dislike it, there is something wring with you. Warning though: this book is a tear jerker. I better finish up here... I'm off to the library to renue my copy. ;)

Sixteen-year-old Winter De Salis lost her parents twelve years ago, but she doesn't know how they died! She's been haunted by it ever since, and her feelings will not go away. She's now back in Warriewood after living with the Robinson family --- and she's determined to find out the truth. While living in Warriewood, she starts to do some research on her parent's deaths. One day she finds their graves and learns that her father died in a drowning accident. She starts asking people about her mother's death, but she doesn't believe any of the stories she hears. Will she ever find out how her mother died, or will the truth be kept from her forever? I liked this book because Winter's personality is similar to mine. If I was Winter, I would have wanted to find out how my parents died too, because I believe that you should always know the truth about your family. If you like moving books, read this one to find out if Winter ever discovers the truth. --- Reviewed by Ashley Hartlaub

At sixteen Winter has come home. Not that anyone wants her there but the farm is hers and she won't be stopped. But for all her bull-headedness and the reader's wonder at why she's so stubborn soon becomes apparent when Winter sees better than the adults do what is really going on on her land. We thrill to Winter's cleverness at finding the guilty freeloaders and tossing them out on their ears. The memories that have been teasing Winter about her parents are also chillingly brought to life by her Great-Aunt Rita. Through it all we think that Winter will be just fine. And we're sort of glad she gets to be a kid again, too.

Winter is just unbelievable.I know some people who didn't like the book, but I personally found it amazing, and so did my parents, who I forced to read it after I finished. John Marsden has written another amazing piece of work. Like all his other books, it's got an edge to it, although the storyline of this book isn't quite as alternative as some of his other books, it has an almost "detached" feel to it. Absolutely amazing. I would recommend this book, and any other by John Marsden to any one over the age of 15.