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Circa Now by Amber McRee Turner (2014, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHyperion Books for Children
ISBN-101423176391
ISBN-139781423176398
eBay Product ID (ePID)171838008
Product Key Features
Book TitleCirca Now
Number of Pages284 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
TopicArt & Architecture, Family / Parents, Social Themes / Death & Dying, General
IllustratorYes
GenreJuvenile Fiction
AuthorAmber Mcree Turner
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight15.8 Oz
Item Length8.8 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience
LCCN2013-035304
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsPhotography runs in 11-year-old Circa Monroe's family: her mother shoots portraits for a living, and her father is an expert at photo restoration. As a fun aside, he also creates "Shopt" images, Photoshopping unusual additions into pictures he's restoring, such as adding a baby, an oversize potato, and a bugle-playing beaver to an old photo of a family reunion. Circa is devastated when her father is killed in a deadly tornado strike, but a few weeks later, an amnesiac boy named Miles arrives on Circa's doorstep with a copy of her father's restored family reunion photo in his hand. Could Circa's father's Shopt images be magic, somehow able to make a Photoshopped baby become a real boy? Turner (Sway) offers a moving exploration of grief and an honest depiction of friends and family facing the hardest of times. Examples of Circa's father's altered images appear throughout the novel, with narrative captions that give the story a slight Miss Peregrine meets Harris Burdick atmosphere and add to its sense of mystery and possibility. Ages 8 12.-- PW
Grade FromThird Grade
Grade ToSeventh Grade
Dewey Decimal813.6
SynopsisTwelve-year-old Circa Monroe has a knack for restoring old photographs. It's a skill she learned from her dad, who loves old pictures and putting fun digital twists on them. His altered "Shopt" photos look so real that they could fool nearly anybody, and Circa treasures the fun stories he makes up to explain each creation. One day, her father receives a strange phone call requesting an urgent delivery, and he heads out into a storm. The unimaginable happens: a tornado, then a terrible accident, and Circa never sees her dad again. Just as Circa and her mom begin to pick up the pieces, a mysterious boy shows up on their doorstep, a boy called Miles who remembers nothing about his past. The only thing he has with him is the photograph that Circa's dad intended to deliver on the day he died. As Circa tries to help Miles recover his identity, she begins to notice something strange about the photos she and her father retouched-the digital flourishes added to the old photos seem to exist in real life. The mysteries of the Shopt photos and Miles's past are intertwined, and in order to solve both, Circa will have to figure out what's real and what's an illusion. With stunning prose, captivating photographs, and a hint of magic, Circa Now is a gripping story full of hope and heart. Praise for Circa Now "a moving exploration of grief and an honest depiction of friends and family facing the hardest of times. Examples of Shopt photos] appear throughout the novel, with narrative captions that give the story a slight Miss Peregrine meets Harris Burdick atmosphere and add to its sense of mystery and possibility." Publishers Weekly "Just a tinge of fantasy pervades this captivating tale of grief and acceptance and of the power of imagination." Kirkus Reviews "Turner's story is an intricate weave of grief and healing, friendship, trauma, and wishful desire; gentle quirkiness and light humor soften the dire issues Circa Now ] has an intelligent, compassionate originality that gleams throughout." The Horn Book "the tenderness, imagination and hope underpinning the story, as well as the ultimate message of finding good in the bad, will have readers turning the pages to see how Circa might shape her present even if she can't change the past." BCCB, 12-year-old Circa Monroe has a knack for restoring old photographs. It's a skill she learned from her dad, who loves old pictures and putting fun digital twists on them. One day, her father receives a strange phone call requesting an urgent delivery, and he heads out into a storm. The unimaginable happens: a tornado, then a terrible accident, and Circa never sees her dad again. Just as Circa and her mom begin to pick up the pieces, a mysterious boy shows up on their doorstep, who remembers nothing about his past. The only thing he has with him is one of her dad's photographs., Digitally altered photographs aid this new mystery as 12 year old Circa investigates her dad's disappearance.
LC Classification NumberPZ7.T8534Ci 2014
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