The Humming Room Characters

192 pages hiding is roo fanshaw s special skill.

The humming room characters.

Having grown up in a broken home she can only find peace by hiding br p br p as hard as her life has been roo s world is turned upside down when her. An homage to a cherished classic that can work as a companion piece or stand alone as a solid modern tale for young readers in the 21st century. Feiwel friends published on. That s how she got to be so good at hiding in the first place.

This was my number one problem with the humming room because really the secret garden is a classic for a reason. Hummingbirds are birds native to the americas and constituting the biological family trochilidae they are the smallest of birds most species measuring 7 5 13 cm 3 5 in in length. The humming room author. The humming room 2012 feiwel friends isbn 0 312 64438 8 the characters and events are nearly exact counterparts to those found in the classic the secret garden.

In the matching areas of your butcher paper outline write the type of character attributes your chosen character from the book has for that area of the body. This purchase was a good one and i would recommend it. Choose a character from the humming room by ellen potter. February 28 2012 hardcover.

Fiction p twelve year old roo fanshaw just wants to be left alone. Most recently the author tapped into memories of her own childhood reading to pen the humming room a novel inspired by frances hodgson burnett s the secret garden. February 28 2012 source. In most cases the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication.

Set in a mansion a former children s tuberculosis sanitarium on an island in the st. Lawrence river the story centers on roo a prickly orphan who goes to live with her aloof. Sure ellen potter has modernized the story a little and yes the behaviour of the character of colin in the original has been given a more practical plausible explanation. Feiwel friends publication date.

If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel that. When her parents are murdered it s her special hiding place under the trailer that saves her life. The secret garden is extremely similar to the humming room and the subject in both books was good although the constant broad yorkshire kind of threw me off in the secret garden. The smallest extant hummingbird species is the 5 cm 2 0 in bee hummingbird which weighs less than 2 0 g 0 07 oz the largest hummingbird species is the 23 cm 9 1 in giant hummingbird weighing 18 24g 0.

Living in a frighteningly unstable family she often needs to disappear at a moment s notice. Living in a frighteningly unstable family she often needs to disappear at a moment s notice. Fantasy middle grade publisher. When her parents are murdered it s her special hiding place under the.

Hiding is roo fanshaw s special skill. On the butcher paper trace the outline of one of your group members. The humming room author.