{"id":10219,"date":"2019-01-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10219"},"modified":"2019-01-28T09:23:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:23:56","slug":"where-is-her-brother-who-loves-the-scarlet-ibis-by-gill-lewis-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10219","title":{"rendered":"Where is her brother who loves the Scarlet Ibis? by Gill Lewis (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When a parent can’t parent,
when interventions<\/a> don’t work,
when “what’s best for you” isn’t\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Scarlet understands how Red’s mind works, how his systematic collecting of birds’ feathers satisfies a deep-seated need for her younger half-brother with autism<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a brief calm moment with Red in the zoo aviary where she actually can escape into a book without worrying about him, Scarlet notes “I close my book, imagining the characters frozen in their own time until I open the pages and start reading again. I wonder if our own lives are written down, unchangeable. I wonder what would be written down for me” (p. 42).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their mother just sits in their London flat, so Scarlet takes care of shopping, laundry, and everything else – until it’s wrested from her control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you cope with sudden changes?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Scarlet Ibis \/ Gill Lewis, illustrated by Susan Meyer. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2018. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My book talk<\/strong>: When a disaster separates Scarlet from Red, the twelve year old is ready to search all of London so she can help her little half-brother with autism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scarlet and Red share the same mother (who’s not functioning well right now) – would the social worker have kept them together if they looked more alike?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Observing birds is the only thing that calms her autistic brother – where might Red go to find them (and Scarlet find him)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being called “my little cousin” by foster brother Jez gives Scarlet a safe identity – but what if her new schoolmates discover the truth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family bonds, racial identity, labeling others who are different, the haves and have-nots – life has just become even more complex for this young woman trying to do everything for those she loves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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