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Diaz Gonzalez stretches the reader’s imagination as she delves into the drama,
loss and courage found in the bombing of Guernica. Life for Ani in the Basque
town of Guernica is chaotic, but Gonzalez impresses that meaning is to be found
when one decides what is to be done with that chaos. Ani, a self-assumed twelve-year-old nobody,
finds her voice when a boy with a strange accent moves to town and they embark
on daring adventures as spies.
Selling
sardines with her mother every afternoon, and smelling like fish every day, is
not what Ani esteems as being of worth or popularity. However, when Mathias
moves to town, and also has zero friends, the two form a friendship and aid
each other in their self-discovery. A Thunderous Whisper is a beautiful story.
Although Gonzalez did an excellent job of building the story and keeping the
reader interested, characters believability through their dialogue lacked. Nonetheless,
intermediate and young adult readers will find A Thunderous Whisper engaging
and enthralling and as they begin to conceive the untold dramas of the Basque
town and the bombing of Guernica.
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