This deeply psychological story about abuse, neglect, and human connection across several generations is haunting yet entirely satisfying. Parallel plotlines, one told in text and one in art, inform each other. Ella’s portions have no dialogue, with the exception of some hand-written notes, which parallels smartly with Mary’s own self-chosen silence to create a radiating sense of loneliness. Read 2,211 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. novel from Pam Smy, celebrated author and illustrator of Thornhill. Instead of individual panels, artwork spread across entire pages, adding weight and fullness to the lush and precise gradations of black and white. 1982: Mary is a lonely orphan at the Thornhill Institute For Children at the very. The gradual reveals about Ella’s and Mary’s circumstances are paced perfectly throughout the storyline, resulting in a page-turner that is made especially exciting by its cleverly detailed black-and-white pictures peppered within seemingly straightforward images are smaller subtle ones and hidden, haunting details that make lingering over them satisfying and necessary. Smy expertly balances showing and telling in these parallel narratives that build and sustain two thoroughly engaging, suspenseful mysteries. This diary chronicles targeted, repeated bullying as well as her continuing struggle to communicate, as Mary reports that others describe her as “selectively mute.” Ella’s and Mary’s stories converge in an unlikely way with an ending that is both shocking and provocative. Thornhill (Pam Smy) » p.1 » Global Archive Voiced Books Online Free THORNHILL Pam Smy ROARING BROOK PRESS NEW YORK Begin Reading Table of Contents About the Author Copyright Page Thank you for buying this Roaring Brook ebook. These images alternate with Mary’s unhappy diary entries from when she suffered through living at Thornhill in 1982. In 2017, Ella has just moved into a home next to a former all-girls orphanage called Thornhill, and her slow discovery of its mysterious inhabitant is told solely through images. Thornhill owes a great deal to Brian Selznicks groundbreaking novels, like The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

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