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The Girl in the Well Is Me
Written by Karen Rivers
Narrated by Michele Medlin
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Kammie Summers has fallen into a well during a (fake) initiation into a popular club; now trapped in the dark, waiting to be rescued, Kammie thinks about the best and worst moments of her life so far in this unforgettable story about a bullied girl.
Author
Karen Rivers
Karen Rivers is the author of many award-winning books for children and teens, including The Girl in the Well Is Me. She lives in Victoria, BC, with her children.
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Reviews for The Girl in the Well Is Me
Rating: 3.6323528970588237 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
34 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Ok, what do I even say about this? The writing is strong, and the thoughtful conclusions that Kammie comes to during her ordeal are pretty excellent. However. And this is a BIG however -- if this is humor, it's very, very dark, and you have to get through the truly horrific bullying to get through to the story. Between the mean girl flashbacks and the incredibly terrifying claustrophobia, I'm not really sure this is a book I can recommend -- some kids like a read with a lot of emotions and difficult topics, so I can see it. I just really didn't enjoy the experience myself.
I'll grant you that it's a great one for perseverance and becoming yourself, but wooo. If you've every been bullied it's not easy to read about.
Advanced reader's copy provided by Edelweiss. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I love how author Karen Rivers starts this book off with a bang. Kammie falls into a well after trying to impress her “new” friends. Kammie was desperate to make friends after moving to Texas. The friends told her she had to pass an initiation to be a part of their club. Now Kammie is stuck in a well as three girls she barely even knows stare at her from above. And they are not taking the situation very seriously. Karen does an excellent job pulling the reader in. Making you enraged at the three girls who caused this to happen. The whole story is told from Kammie’s perspective as she is trapped, hurt, and losing oxygen. As Kammie waits to be rescued, the reader finds out about Kammie, why she moved to Texas, and much, much more. A great read for grades 4 and up.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5“The thing is, if God is dead, who is looking after us?” Karen Rivers’ pithy middle grade novel about a girl trapped in a well is an onion—at its surface, we just have a girl who is tricked into falling into a well, much to the delight of a Mean Girls-esque crew at her school. As we progress through the story, our heroine, Kammie, begins to reveal just exactly why she recently moved to Texas, why her father is in prison, and why she even cares what these girls thinks. As Kammie begins to suffer from oxygen deprivation, she thinks back to the events that led up to her escapade and even hallucinates about talking goats. By the end of its 215 pages, I was affected, emotionally, by Kammie’s story—it’s certainly not what it seems at first glance. Highly recommended for a quick, thoughtful story.