The memory wall
Record details
- ISBN: 9781504742528
- ISBN: 1504742524
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Physical Description:
9 audio discs (11 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, [2016]
- Copyright: ℗2016
Content descriptions
General Note: | Compact discs. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Prentice Onayemi. |
Summary, etc.: | There's a fine line between real life and video games in this engrossing novel that's part Kathryn Erskine's Mockingbird, part Patrick Ness' A Monster Calls.Severkin is an elf who slinks through the shadows of Wellhall's spiraling stone towers, plundering ancient ruins and slaying mystical monstrosities with ease.He's also a character in a video game--a character that twelve-year-old Nick Reeves plays when he needs a break from the real world. And lately Nick has really needed a break. His mother had an "incident" at school last year, and her health has taken a turn for the worse.Nick is convinced his mother's illness has been misdiagnosed, but no one believes him. His only escape is the online world of Wellhall, where, as the elf character Severkin, he can face any problem. But when Nick finds himself fighting alongside another elf who reminds him of someone he knows in real life, his worlds begin to collide. |
Target Audience Note: | 008-012 |
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Subject: | Alzheimer's disease Fiction Video games Fiction Mothers and sons Fiction Alzheimer's disease Patients Juvenile fiction Racially mixed children Juvenile fiction Fantasy games Juvenile fiction |
Genre: | Audiobooks. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Woodbury Public Library | BOCD FIC ROSEN (Text) | 34018136814284 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
The Horn Book Review
The Memory Wall
The Horn Book
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Narratives alternate between an online role-playing fantasy game and the real-life trauma of twelve-year-old biracial boy Nick, whose German mother has early-onset Alzheimer's. Rosen explores magical thinking and grief as Nick learns he cannot save his mother through gaming. Despite some overwrought similes ("She has eyes like huge, soft hills"), the story is moving and impressively multilayered. (c) Copyright 2017. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publishers Weekly Review
The Memory Wall
Publishers Weekly
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Unable to cope with his mother's early-onset Alzheimer's, a boy finds solace in the latest installment of his favorite video game, Wellhall, a complex fantasy world with uncanny parallels to his real life. While his mother accepts her fate, checking into a home where she can receive care, Nick researches other diseases, certain that she can be cured. And as he plays Wellhall, he meets a character that he suspects to be his mother, granting him hope that she's playing the game as well. Nick's struggle to accept his mother's condition interweaves with his online quest, though not always as he expects. Rosen (Woundabout) crafts a complex, emotional story about grief and acceptance, but it's somewhat diluted by the other subplots at play (Nick is also dealing with bullies, his biracial background, and a nascent romantic interest, and a major theme of the narrative invokes the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall). Even so it's a strong, thought-provoking novel. Ages 9-12. Agent: Joy Tutela, David Black Literary. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.