The ending showed that they all loved each other and that the real issue was people hiding their feelings. Give me a Watson book any day over those two.) (I know I named some really popular authors. Instead of getting bogged down in the details that really don’t matter, use those words to actually tell the story. Those words could have been a whole scene or a whole chapter instead. I don’t need a ten page description of a tree. Yet again, Watson showed me that Charles Dickens, Stephen King, and so many other writers are overrated. The emotional depth that Watson is able to get across in such few words and at the reading level this book is on was just impressive. It is all understandable, but that doesn’t make it any bit easier on any of the people involved.
Everything is about Tobias and his needs. Her mother expects her to be with Tobias all the time. Randi is growing up and wants to be her own person, but she is feeling stuck. This book still hit close to home for other reasons. I never got burned out on trying to help him deal with everything around him. Unlike Randi, I only saw my brother a few days a month. There were issues with over stimulation, so there was freak outs. Then he had issues with speech, so there was therapy. Well at first he was a baby, so that is why he got all the attention. I just had to sneak a peak at the book first. The author donated a copy to the juvenile jail I volunteer in. Nudge this age group towards Richard Peck’s classic “A Long Way from Chicago” which features lovely interconnected stories about grandchild/grandparent relationships which will linger a lot longer than this awkwardly composed hi-lo novel.To see more reviews check out MI Book Reviews. These kinds of stories usually work better when there is a little more finesse demonstrated in the relationship between the older and the younger person. While “Room 555” does what it purports to do, it’s also pretty clumsy about teaching a lesson about attitude and bias towards the elderly. Jasmine and Roonie share a true love of dance and Roonie is forced to rethink her attitude about “old people”.
She says she prefers to remember how her grandmother was previously.Ī chance assignment to do volunteer hours in a hospital geriatric ward allows Roonie to meet Jasmine. She refuses to go with her parents and brother when they go to see her. As part of the Orca Currents series it is a short, high-interest novel written specifically for middle-school students reading below grade level.įourteen-year-old Roonie is terrified to visit her grandmother who must now live in supported care. “Room 555” is one of those books that is best described as “good for you”.
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