Down Under Calling eBook Margot Finke
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While Grandma Rose is on the Australian side of the Pacific Ocean, battling to save a young joey, her grandson Andy Frazer, in Oregon, is pushed into writing to her. He would rather play computer games and brood about his dad being downsized. His friend Kelly has also become a problem. Every time she visits he breaks out – sweat and zits! Letters from Grandma Rose are full of the weird and wonderful Aussie critters in her garden. Andy and Kelly find themselves spending less time with the Xbox, and more time bike riding, identifying local birds, and being constantly shocked and amazed by the stories Rose tells about her youth in Australia. Andy soon realizes that although Kelly lives in a grand house, he is the one with the loving family he can rely on. He can’t wait to meet what he calls his ‘pioneer’ grandma, who doesn’t act like any pioneer he has ever read about. What Grandma do you know that looks great in shorts, tells a mean story, and wears a T-shirt that says, ‘Aussies Have More Fun?’
Down Under Calling eBook Margot Finke
Looking for a mid-grade novel for a `tween-age boy who's interested in all things Aussie? Here's the perfect book for you, Down Under Calling, by Margot Finke. Ms Finke is a transplanted Aussie with memories and stories to share about wild and wonderful Australia. I highly recommend this book to boys and girls who want to learn more about Australian animals. Parents and grandparents will enjoy the growing relationship between Andy and Grandma Rose.In Down Under Calling, Andy's mother wants him to do something productive over summer - not sit around playing video games. She suggests he write letters to his Grandma Rose in Australia. We applaud his mother's pushing Andy knowing that he and his grandmother will get to know each other better through this correspondence. We'll all learn more about Australia through Grandma Rose's sharing her memories with us about growing up `down under.'
Andy, being a video game player, is not inclined to write letters - how "borrring," he thinks, as he reluctantly complies with Mom's urging. But once he receives Grandma Rose's first letter, he changes his mind. Grandma Rose has a lot of interesting critter visitors to her garden, which backs to the Queensland Bush, plus entertaining personal stories from her girlhood. Andy is hooked and his friend, a girl named Kelly, is drawn in, too. The summer passes pleasurably on both continents as they eagerly await the next snail mail installment. Andy and Kelly's friendship also grows as they share their personal stories.
Letter exchanges make for wonderful stories. We get to experience life in two worlds. In this case we also get Rose's remembrances of her life as a girl in Australia in the 1940's, contrasted with her life today. Andy's perspective broadens and his understanding of his own life's problems also deepens. He develops a warm relationship with his grandmother and gains a close friend in Kelly. They learn more about the creatures in Australia through Andy and Kelly's `Google' searches. Andy and Kelly find more to interest them outside in bike riding and bird watching.
If you've ever carried on a correspondence over a period of time you learn a lot about the other person as you share information - and you learn more about yourself as well. Andy learns his parents are having the same problems he's had since his father was downsized, which changed their living situation. The whole family has had to adjust to their altered financial reality. In this day and age sacrifices seem harder to make when we see others are much better off. This story shows how families can stick together in hard times and that expensive, `store bought' fun isn't a true necessity. It's our relationships that really matter.
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Down Under Calling eBook Margot Finke Reviews
Looking for a mid-grade novel for a `tween-age boy who's interested in all things Aussie? Here's the perfect book for you, Down Under Calling, by Margot Finke. Ms Finke is a transplanted Aussie with memories and stories to share about wild and wonderful Australia. I highly recommend this book to boys and girls who want to learn more about Australian animals. Parents and grandparents will enjoy the growing relationship between Andy and Grandma Rose.
In Down Under Calling, Andy's mother wants him to do something productive over summer - not sit around playing video games. She suggests he write letters to his Grandma Rose in Australia. We applaud his mother's pushing Andy knowing that he and his grandmother will get to know each other better through this correspondence. We'll all learn more about Australia through Grandma Rose's sharing her memories with us about growing up `down under.'
Andy, being a video game player, is not inclined to write letters - how "borrring," he thinks, as he reluctantly complies with Mom's urging. But once he receives Grandma Rose's first letter, he changes his mind. Grandma Rose has a lot of interesting critter visitors to her garden, which backs to the Queensland Bush, plus entertaining personal stories from her girlhood. Andy is hooked and his friend, a girl named Kelly, is drawn in, too. The summer passes pleasurably on both continents as they eagerly await the next snail mail installment. Andy and Kelly's friendship also grows as they share their personal stories.
Letter exchanges make for wonderful stories. We get to experience life in two worlds. In this case we also get Rose's remembrances of her life as a girl in Australia in the 1940's, contrasted with her life today. Andy's perspective broadens and his understanding of his own life's problems also deepens. He develops a warm relationship with his grandmother and gains a close friend in Kelly. They learn more about the creatures in Australia through Andy and Kelly's `Google' searches. Andy and Kelly find more to interest them outside in bike riding and bird watching.
If you've ever carried on a correspondence over a period of time you learn a lot about the other person as you share information - and you learn more about yourself as well. Andy learns his parents are having the same problems he's had since his father was downsized, which changed their living situation. The whole family has had to adjust to their altered financial reality. In this day and age sacrifices seem harder to make when we see others are much better off. This story shows how families can stick together in hard times and that expensive, `store bought' fun isn't a true necessity. It's our relationships that really matter.
The Aussie from Down Under, Margot Finke, has done it again! Down Under Calls is a beautifully crafted story of bridging the generation gap and ocean separation through good old-fashioned letter writing and sharing stories of one's youth.
At the request of his mother, Andy Frazer is reluctant in having to write a letter to his Australian Grandma Rose. It was bad enough his family was forced to move from their spacious home to a cramped apartment. Something about downsizing at his father's job led to this. Along with not being allowed to purchase any more video games he now had to write a letter to some old lady he doesn't even remember. What could he possibly write about?
What starts out as a burden quickly turns into a true labor of love. The letter writing becomes a glorious distraction that serves as the propeller of an exploding imagination and curiosity. What Andy learns along the way is invaluable. Journey along with Andy, Grandma Rose, and Andy's closest friend Kelly as their lives become intertwined despite the separation of an ocean.
The humorous letter exchanges will have the reader turning the pages as quick as lightening. Author, Margot Finke includes a glossary of Australian words for easy reference. Visit Finke at [...] to learn about her ever-evolving writing career. Be prepared to spend quite a bit of time visiting, for Margot's expertise and humor spill from the pages.
Looking for a mid-grade novel for a `tween-age boy who's interested in all things Aussie? Here's the perfect book for you, Down Under Calling, by Margot Finke. Ms Finke is a transplanted Aussie with memories and stories to share about wild and wonderful Australia. I highly recommend this book to boys and girls who want to learn more about Australian animals. Parents and grandparents will enjoy the growing relationship between Andy and Grandma Rose.
In Down Under Calling, Andy's mother wants him to do something productive over summer - not sit around playing video games. She suggests he write letters to his Grandma Rose in Australia. We applaud his mother's pushing Andy knowing that he and his grandmother will get to know each other better through this correspondence. We'll all learn more about Australia through Grandma Rose's sharing her memories with us about growing up `down under.'
Andy, being a video game player, is not inclined to write letters - how "borrring," he thinks, as he reluctantly complies with Mom's urging. But once he receives Grandma Rose's first letter, he changes his mind. Grandma Rose has a lot of interesting critter visitors to her garden, which backs to the Queensland Bush, plus entertaining personal stories from her girlhood. Andy is hooked and his friend, a girl named Kelly, is drawn in, too. The summer passes pleasurably on both continents as they eagerly await the next snail mail installment. Andy and Kelly's friendship also grows as they share their personal stories.
Letter exchanges make for wonderful stories. We get to experience life in two worlds. In this case we also get Rose's remembrances of her life as a girl in Australia in the 1940's, contrasted with her life today. Andy's perspective broadens and his understanding of his own life's problems also deepens. He develops a warm relationship with his grandmother and gains a close friend in Kelly. They learn more about the creatures in Australia through Andy and Kelly's `Google' searches. Andy and Kelly find more to interest them outside in bike riding and bird watching.
If you've ever carried on a correspondence over a period of time you learn a lot about the other person as you share information - and you learn more about yourself as well. Andy learns his parents are having the same problems he's had since his father was downsized, which changed their living situation. The whole family has had to adjust to their altered financial reality. In this day and age sacrifices seem harder to make when we see others are much better off. This story shows how families can stick together in hard times and that expensive, `store bought' fun isn't a true necessity. It's our relationships that really matter.
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