A Coming Evil
by Vivian Vande Velde
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Author: Vivian Vande VeldeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-03
ISBN: 0618747818
Number of pages: 224
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Sandpiper
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Book Review: Very Moving Story
Summary: 5 Stars
I visited an author's forum a couple of months ago and I met Vivian Vande Velde. It was really nice because most authors were for young children and there were few authors for teens there. I had a teen with me and he was very interested in Velde's Mordred story. I ended up buying one for myself and one for him. Velde was very nice and one of the easiest to talk to. You could tell there was something very special about her. I have read several books by many of the authors who attended the forum but none have moved me as much as Velde has. Her writing and plot development are superior to many other teen authors. Her stories are moving and well developed. They demand more of the reader in terms of understanding and subtleness but offer a much greater payoff. In A Coming Evil, the story takes place during German Occupation of France. There is a lot in the plot which makes it realistic fiction except for a character of a ghost, a Tectonic Knight from the 14th Century. He guides Lisette through some dangerous situations and does not hide from the fact that Lisette is in real danger. There is no Superman to rescue her. I would think of the book as being somewhat similar to Pan's Labyrinth. Fantasy takes over when the real is too dangerous to even contemplate.
Summary of A Coming Evil
"This well-written . . . fast-paced adventure raises some interesting issues."?School Library Journal
Lisette Beaucaire was angry when her parents sent her away from Paris that
September day in 1940. And although she knew that with the Nazis occupying the city she'd be safer at her aunt Josephine's farm in the Dordogne Valley, Lisette resented her "exile." She'd miss her friends and the excitement of being thirteen and starting a new school. Instead, she'd have nothing to do but amuse her little cousin Cecile.
That's what Lisette thought, but she soon found out that she wasn't the only visitor at the farmhouse. And then she encountered Gerard, a visitor from a long time ago, who proved to be a valiant ally at a crucial moment.
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