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What an apt title, Sarel's family life has been decimated with the arrival of men looking for water. They murder Sarel's parents and set their home on fire with Sarel terrorized thereafter with the recurring fire nightmare. If she did not have her father's dogs (Rhodesian Ridgebacks)I know she would have perished from grief. Each night Sarel would lock the herself and the dogs kennel and they would drape themselves across her body. For awhile there was water but it became evident that the water was drying up. There is a boy, Musa, who is in shackles and being held against his will because he can find water just by dowsing sticks. Musa escapes his captors and walks across the desert and finds Sarel and her dogs. The mother dog, Nandi, knows Musa is the boy who will find them water. Melanie Crowder's plot, characters, and their exhaustive, painful search for water is a must read. It will make readers aware of how many throughout the world are losing their water source and how we must work on conserving this natural resource before it is too late.


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Parched Melanie Crowder 9780547976518 Books Reviews

Melanie Crowder's first book is bold. I love the story told through characters as each chapter unfolds. Great read for youth!
Art and story merge so sublimely you forget you're reading and you are there, heart racing, throat aching there. What's more, Crowder is such a gifted writer, the reader walks away from her work changed from the inside out and back again and wanting for more. You don't read Parched. You live it.
If you want a book to grab your middle grade reader and not let them go until the last page, this is the book. The story is told from the view point of the three main characters, yet each blends with the other. This is a story of survival under the harshest of conditions from nature and man. I thought and talked about this book for days after finishing it. I will suggest our class at school read this book.
Good writing, especially describing the landscape. Could use a bit more character development. Location deliberately vague, so it could be set anywhere. Using the different voices dog, girl, boy, was helpful.
This sparse, post-apocalyptic book is set in a drought-ravaged land and tells the story of a girl who's lost everything but her dogs and a boy who's lost everything but his ability to find water. The prose is lovely and the story is gripping. A quick, but powerful read.
Crowder's debut is stunning. The language is beautiful, and the sparse prose perfectly reflects the parched setting. The characters are easy to like and root for, as they show a lot of determination and heart. And the structure is great--I enjoyed getting the three different points of view (including the dog's!). You'll love this book, but make sure you have a glass of water handy when you read--it'll make you thirsty! -)
It's hard to find anything to complain about in this mythic parable of a girl, a boy and a dog as they guard the only water source left after a homestead attack in the bush. It's breath-takingly easy to read, as well. What will happen to the young water seeker after the ending? Perhaps a sequel.We know the girl will be all right because of her dogs.
What an apt title, Sarel's family life has been decimated with the arrival of men looking for water. They murder Sarel's parents and set their home on fire with Sarel terrorized thereafter with the recurring fire nightmare. If she did not have her father's dogs (Rhodesian Ridgebacks)I know she would have perished from grief. Each night Sarel would lock the herself and the dogs kennel and they would drape themselves across her body. For awhile there was water but it became evident that the water was drying up. There is a boy, Musa, who is in shackles and being held against his will because he can find water just by dowsing sticks. Musa escapes his captors and walks across the desert and finds Sarel and her dogs. The mother dog, Nandi, knows Musa is the boy who will find them water. Melanie Crowder's plot, characters, and their exhaustive, painful search for water is a must read. It will make readers aware of how many throughout the world are losing their water source and how we must work on conserving this natural resource before it is too late.