Groogleman

by James D. Macdonald and Debra Doyle

Book Overview

Believing that the grooglemen have taken Leezie the weller, her young student Dan Henchard accompanies the strange hunter, Joshua, on a quest to rescue her. By the authors of Knight's Wyrd. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152002359
• ISBN13: 9780152002350
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

A Lyrical Fantasy

Both ethically aware and beautifully written, this book explores what it means to be human. The other themes interwoven in the adventurous plot include the bonds of kinship, and the moral dimesion of society -- helping others from kindness or from self-interest.I recommend this book to anyone, child or adult, who ever wondered about the philosophy of loss and redemption. Don't let me scare you off, this book isn't dry moralizing, it's also exciting, colorful, and full of sharp and subtle characterizations. Get one for yourself, and one for a friend. You'll be glad you did.

Groogleman

Groogleman is a great book for middle school kids. The authors did a great job on describing the details and creating the final plot. This book is so exciting that after the first few pages you would want to read more and more. You might not want to put the book down after you start it. There are so many events happening at the same time that it is so exciting and interesting. It is kind of a long story but made short into a small book with the main stuff only and with fine details. The way the authors describes the characters is just so awesome. They describe the Groogleman so good that it feels that you can see it. It feels so real when they describe it that you can understand it like a movie nad how the author was seeing it in their minds. The way the authors describes their personality, feelings, and looks is just so great. It feels like a movie but just with more details and you can assume what will happen next without having to stop the tape. I would suggest this book to people who like to read adveturous mystery and little horror. The setting and the plot are great for all those readers. It is such a good book that I think it deservers four stars. I have enjoyed this book and I think other readers will as well too.

Science Fiction? Fantasy? Excellent either way

Speaking as a middle grade teacher, I want to recommend this superlative book. Even reluctant readers will be drawn into this deceptively simple tale about a boy on a quest. It seems to be fantasy, but the reader comes to realize through subtle clues that it is actually set in a realistic far future. Beautifully symbolic, exciting, humorous, moral, it is a must for any school library--or personal library