This Girl Climbs Trees by Ellen Mulholland

An interesting experiment in storytelling that seems unlikely to capture its audience's attention. From Ellens list on middle grade dealing with death, dying, and grief. Discover Kobos Vast Collection of Ebooks and Audiobooks. This Girl Climbs Trees by Ellen Plotkin Mulholland Fiction, Young Adult, Ages 11 & Up ISBN: 978-0989745512 Format: Paperback, 5. Ellen Mulholland Author Of This Girl Climbs Trees. The narrative voice is inconsistent, vacillating between believable ('How's a girl like me to grow roots when the soil of life is so crumbly?') and too mature ('Things change every moment, like a fallen leaf traveling down a mountain stream, pitched over stones, diverted into rivulets, direction unknown'). Buy This Girl Climbs Trees by Ellen Plotkin Mulholland and Read this Book on Kobos Free Apps. As a work of fiction, however, it lacks direction, a cohesive story, or a sense of momentum. As a semi-autobiographical narrative with literary leanings, it's perfectly adequate. Along the way, she also contemplates her future, not quite ready to fall in love or figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. Eliza Mills takes the reader on a journey of life and death gently - and humorously - depositing us at the door of self-discovery. The narrative skips around over the course of several years, as Eliza ruminates on the death of her grandfather, the cutting down of her favorite tree, and her friendship with Paisley Park, a socially conscious animal rights activist. In this meandering, nonlinear coming-of-age story, 13-year-old Maclyn 'Eliza' Mills reflects on what it's like to grow up in the late 1970s.

This Girl Climbs Trees by Ellen Mulholland