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Echo
Echo
Author: Francesca Lia Block
Maybe I would become a mermaid....I would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a dolphin as a friend. He would have merry eyes and the thick sleeked flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060281274
ISBN-10: 0060281278
Publication Date: 8/1/2001
Pages: 224
Reading Level: Young Adult
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 21 ratings
Publisher: Joanna Cotler
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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Helpful Score: 2
Block weaves another masterpiece, as she tells the story of echo, the girl underfoot of her mother, the angel. It's certainly more than just about echo, but also about how her mother came to meet her father, her dealing with lifes troubles, and some love in between..
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Helpful Score: 1
Lyrical and poignant -- a YA novel about a young girl's coming of age, dealing with her father's death and her mother's suffocating beauty, with unrequited love and difficult friendships, in Los Angeles where magic and neon lights exist side by side.
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Echo is about a girls journey of self-discovery and trying to escape the shadow of her mother.


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