Thursday's Child - Sonya Hartnett - pages: 261

Plot: hehe, this is an easier story to describe. okay, so the story starts with this girl named "Harper Flute", written in first person, so you really get get the feel of being in the story. anyways, the little girl watches, and soon you can clearly see things change, when her little brother (named "Tin") decides to move underground, even though he was only 5 at the time. at first, he was only digging under the yard, and went up at the call of Harper, but then, after awhile, he just stayed down, and his parents had to put out his food infront of the small entrance of the hole. harper really liked her brother Tin, but unlike Tin, Harper was not either of her parent's pets, and so she was never really "loved" by her parents. she had a sister and a brother, with another that dies at the end. as she watches her family struggle in a very bare land, she also watches her little brother go farther and deeper into his holes and caves, being able to see everything well in the dark. Tin was becoming wild. and so, when thier shack (this is what they called thier home) falls down from the emptiness of one of the tunnels that Tin built when he first went under the house. it's actually sorta queer that the child would decided to go UNDER THE HOUSE, don't you think? anyways, the parents kept thinking that Tin went under the ground because he was jelous, but Harper new that the only reason Tin went down there was because he really liked digging. at first, his parents help out by putting stuff out for him to use in his digging, but after that, the child stays underground. lots and lots of other things happens, and, when Tin tries to save his little brother who jumped into a hole when playing hide and seek. the little brother is giving back dead, with Tin still holding the dead child. the parents think that Tin killed the baby, but harper was pretty sure that the baby died before Tin reached him/her (i don't remember) and so, they turn Tin completly loose, and soon, Tin is found stealing from a nieghbour's bee hives for honey. when a huge disaster strikes and thier house tumbles, the nieghbour gives them thier barn and lumber that they had extra, and at the end, the whole nieghbour hood helps to build it. but although they had a roof over thier heads, they needed money to buy food, and thier father was becoming addicted to alcohol, and soon, the eldest daugther was sent to become a maid for their neighbour. of course, this neighbour just wanted a girl in the his house once again, but as soon as the girl did something even the littlest wrong, he would beat her. so one day, the girl ran away from the nieghbour's and went back to her house, telling the family about it. the father gets really angry, and decides to go (with a rifle/gun) and "talk" to the nieghbour, meaning kill. little did they know, little Tin (who really isn't THAT little anymore) heard every single word, and reached the nieghbour's house through his tunnels. and there, he made a trap in the neighbours house, and killed or murdered him. by placing him in a trap in his tunnel, and, because normal people can't see very well in pitch blackness, he killed the neighbour. when harper, who followed her dad because she wanted to stop him. when they reached his house, the guy was already dead. and so they slowly figured out what happened. that's mainly the plot.
okay, my grammer and stuff is really really bad when i type on the comp. so sorry if this really bothers you.

Thoughts: wow, i't such a good book. man would i like to be able to go through those tunnels, and stay safe. but then again, i wouldn't go kill the neighbour, cause i'd probably die or scaredness, either that or the blood. but this is a really good book.
rating: 8/10, it's really good. go read it xD
genre: historical fiction (but actually, i can't really find that much history in it, so i'd probably just call it FICTION)

recommended for people who like to read about little kids doing random things that seem to have no meaning watsoever. actually, just read it. it's good for everyone, as long as you don't get bored with reading after 15 mins.

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