Hemi, a Mule

by Bill Brittain

Book Overview

No one can explain why Ian has sprouted wings--or adjust to their huge batlike appearance. With family and friends hostile about his situation, only Anita Pickens provides Ian with the will to use his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060206497
• ISBN13: 9780060206499
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

The problem with wings

My opinion of this book I say that it is really suprising and exciting. What I liked about this book was the part that Ian had actually sprouted WINGS!!! I liked this part because sometimes I wish I could fly. What I disliked about the book was Ian's parents. I mean why were they so rotten to him? It isn't his fault he sprouted wings! I would compare this book to "A Child Called It" because they treated this kid the same way! Well I hope you read this book Wings soon.

WINGS

Wings is the best book ive ever read. You never know what will happen in the end. you cant stop reading it. its not a short dumb book like alot of books out there. It is really worth reading

Intensely thought-provoking book!

My Fourth Grade class was held spellbound as I read this book aloud to them. It created fabulous discussions about being different. This book is very intense in its depiction of a family torn apart by a lack of communication. Anita and her mother step in and provide the non-threatening support a young man needs to make a very difficult decsion that will affect his family. My students were asked to share the way they thought each of them would solve the problem before I read the young man's choice. Both their choices and his created wonderful discussions in class and in the students' journals.