Go with Grace

by George Alexopoulos (Illustrator)

Overview

Grace, a bedridden girl with no reason to live, is visited one night by a mysterious boy who invites her to leave her room. As they journey together to strange and wondrous cities, it slowly becomes clear that the boy is dead! In this simple yet poignant story that deals with the universal themes of life, death and dreams, will Grace finally find the courage to let go of this life and join him?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598167092
Publisher:	TOKYOPOP
Publication date:	08/01/2006
Series:	Go with Grace manga , #1
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	15 - 18 Years

Editorial Reviews

Gr 8 Up
Grace is a sickly, lonely girl long confined to her bed. Her only company is her dear half sister, who brings her food and journals to write in. Her abusively neglectful stepfather refuses to give her medical care beyond the very minimum required to keep her alive. Grace yearns for companionship and finds it in the unexpected appearance of a ghostly teenage boy. The lovely black-and-white drawings are simple in the manga style, yet capture the distinctive personalities of the characters. The time and place of the story are unclear, sometimes seeming to be in the past, and at other times the future, but generally irrelevant to the central love story. While this book will appeal to teens with a taste for melodramatic romances or manga, sophisticated readers will be left unsatisfied with an ending that, while romantic, is inconsistent with previously established plot points.
—Dawn RutherfordCopyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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