- Hardcover
- Publisher: Harcourt (Jun 1968)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0152325646
- ISBN-13: 978-0152325640
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 14.5 x 3.3 cm
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
It's a great book -- why isn't it available???
18 Aug 1999
Format:Hardcover
I found this book in my high school library when I was sixteen. Unfortunately, I had to return it, and it never did reappear on the shelves. I'm still scouring second-hand bookstores for it! Anyway, I found it to be well-written and extremely readable, with multi-faceted characters who really did come to life on the page. I particularly identified with Shannon Lightley because I, too, was unfocused and unsure of myself. Seeing her world expand meant that mine could, too. At the same time, it wasn't mushy or sentimental -- just an intelligent, well-told story. Definitely worth reading, even if you're no longer a young adult! Definitely worth bringing back.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Life is rich; differences are strengths
9 May 2000
Format:Hardcover
I discovered Greensleeves when I was twelve, and it became my favorite book of all time. I read it at least once a year for several years thereafter and revisit it every few years even now. I'm amazed at its influence--a friend who read it recently said she might not have become a lawyer (which she did for the money) if she had read this book when she was a teenager. As for me, I learned more each time I read it, and saw so much of myself in it, from a multicultural background to an uncertain sense of self. I also learned about a great many aspects of life that are just woven into the background of the story, everything from cuckoo clocks to international travel to waitressing to early music, which I now perform. Most of all, the book made me feel that it was okay--better than okay--for me to be who I was. Now I am (among other things) the director of a conference on children's literature and reading Greensleeves once again--thank goodness I finally found it at a Friends of the Library booksale! If anyone would like to form a Greensleeves e-mail discussion group, fan club, whatever...please e-mail me at communicESHAn@prodigy.net.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Greensleeves
16 Jan 2000
Format:Hardcover
My daughter and I found this in a library after a three year search. We read about Shannon's need to discover herself and know what she wanted to do after high school not what the different adults in her life wanted her to do. She thought she could play detective and uncover a great conspiracy instead found people who loved and accepted her for who she let them believe she was. This was very enjoyable and like many others who read this in their younger years I had a great desire to find and read this again.
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