A Kind of Spark

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Morales, Macey (24 January 2022). "American Library Association announces 2022 Youth Media Award winners". American Library Association . Retrieved 13 February 2022. Genç Timaş yayınlarını seviyorum. Sadece hala tüm kitaplarında neden "ç" harfinin yer almadığı, diğer harflere göre büyük durduğu bir font kullanıyorlar onu anlamıyorum. Kitabın arkasındaki İçinde Ne Var piramidi çok iyi bir dokunuş. Bu kitapta da Farklılıklar, Mücadele ve Cesaret vardı. Bir de kitabın son sayfasındaki her hafta farklı bir kitap öneren karekod güzel bir detay. Her iki özellik için de tebrik ediyorum.

Addie’s class are told they have a ‘fun’ new project to study in the run-up to Halloween. As the teacher recounts how 16 th century women were accused of witchcraft for reasons as innocuous as being left-handed, 11 year old Addie is left stunned. She’s horrified that innocent people, including women from her own area, were persecuted, executed, then forgotten by society. The revelation leaves her determined to lobby for a local memorial in her small Scottish village. A 10-episode TV series adaptation was released on the BBC iPlayer in March 2023, late debuting on the CBBC Channel, with a parallel subplot about one of the young women accused of witchcraft in the Juniper of the 16th century.There is a lot of story in this juvenile fiction novel! The main character, Addie, is 11-years-old, autistic, and struggling with her new classroom teacher and a new student who has joined their class this year. Addie has a lot of depth and readers are able to get "into her head" and realize the extent to which she has to mask her autism at times, the passion she has for causes that are important to her, and the complicated family dynamics between Addie and her older sisters - twins, one of which is also autistic. (Through this reading, I also learned that Addie prefers to be referred to as autistic, not as "having autism". Addie says, "It's something you are, not something you have.") Although she is grossly misunderstood, and mistreated, by her homeroom teacher, Addie finds comfort in the school library and support from the school librarian, as well as her family. Character Tics: Addie and Keedie both flap when they're happy or overwhelmed. They go to great effort to suppress it in public. She is a character McNicoll would have loved to read as a child: “I was a voracious reader, but I never saw the word autistic written in a book, or autistic girls. We had [Mark Haddon’s] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, but we never saw neurodivergent girls.” The Atoner: In the series, Jenna realizes how cruel she's been to Addie and how her complacency in Emily's bullying has negatively affected her friendship with Addie, and with Audrey's help, she gets the courage to not only stand up to Ms. Murphy on Addie's behalf, but call out Emily for what she's done. a b Stevenson, Deborah (2021). "A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll". Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. 75 (2): 67–68. doi: 10.1353/bcc.2021.0544. ISSN 1558-6766. S2CID 258078656.

US edition A Kind of Spark is the debut novel of Scottish children's author Elle McNicoll published in 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Addie believes that the women who were accused of witchcraft were an example of this, singled out for differences in socializing and behaviour. Een meisje in tranen. Zo ontmoeten we ons hoofdpersonage, Adeline – liever Addie genoemd – is op zoek naar haar eigen plek in de wereld. Op school heeft ze dat nog niet helemaal gevonden. Want haar juf heeft net haar verhaal verscheurd en in de prullenbak gegooid, omdat ze Addie’s handschrift niet kon lezen en omdat Addie op haar leeftijd beter moet weten. In haar thesaurus – een synoniemenboekje – zoekt Addie een woord wat deze situatie kan beschrijven. En tegelijk is het een zoektocht om het schreeuwen en scheuren te verwerken. Verschrompeld is het woord wat haar aanspreekt. It is the story of Addie Darrow, an eleven-year-old autistic girl living in the village of Juniper, just outside of Edinburgh, who struggles to navigate the complicated world around her, from home to school, where she is often bullied, both by her former friend Jenna and her teacher Ms Murphy. A sensitive and imaginative girl, Addie’s special interests include sharks and looking up new words in her thesaurus, but one day a lesson in Juniper’s local history sparks a new passion, witches, specifically her village’s status as having executed the most women accused of witchcraft than anywhere else in Britain. The more information Addie learns about the alleged witches leads her to believe that they may have been autistic like her, prompting her to start a campaign for the village to put up a memorial to the Juniper witches.Charlton said he hoped his win would prove “there is a readiness in readers for the LGBTQ+ experience to expand into genres still dominated by their heterosexual counterparts.” De debuutroman Een soort vonk is McNicoll’s reactie, als niemand anders het doet, dan doet ze het zelf wel. Het resultaat is een boek over anders zijn, maar vooral een boek over dat anders zijn betekent dat je dan juist dingen kunt zien vonken.

Since the early nineties, autism was something that was rarely discussed and certainly never understood. Knowledge of and a window into what it means to be autistic in the world of children’s literature has been even scanter. The literature that I have encountered such as The London Eye Mystery and I Am Bat or My Brother Sammy have all been written by people who may have worked with or lived with children who are autistic but A Kind of Spark is, uniquely, a book which has been written who identifies as neurodivergent. We have fallen in love with Addie, whose courage and determination are a guiding light, often reminding the world that kindness must prevail wherever we go,” added Martin.

THIS BOOK MADE ME CRY YA'LL. 5 stars. A middle grade book about an young 11 year old autistic girl - Addie - who lives in a small town in Scotland near Edinburgh. She learns about innocent women who lost their lives during the witch trials centuries ago and she sets out to honor those falsely accused so long ago. But not everyone wants her to do this... Addie's sister, Kaddie - is also autistic and is in college and helps her along the way. Addie goes through so much in this book. SO MANY ADULTS SHOULD READ THIS! It truly gives you the perspective of an autistic child. The importance of understanding sensory overload and overstimulation.