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Overview

The startling, universally acclaimed breakthrough YA novel from master bestselling author Alice Hoffman, now in paperback.

Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster, fifteen-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere, Green retreats into the ruined realm of her garden. But in destroying her feelings, she also begins to destroy herself, erasing the girl she'd once been as she inks darkness into her skin. It is only through a series of mysterious encounters that Green can relearn the ...

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Overview

The startling, universally acclaimed breakthrough YA novel from master bestselling author Alice Hoffman, now in paperback.

Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster, fifteen-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere, Green retreats into the ruined realm of her garden. But in destroying her feelings, she also begins to destroy herself, erasing the girl she'd once been as she inks darkness into her skin. It is only through a series of mysterious encounters that Green can relearn the lessons of love and begin to heal enough to tell her story.

Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.

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Aquamarine author Alice Hoffman creates a work of literary art with this halcyon fairy tale about loss and renewal.

In lyrical words that "unfold like white flowers, petal by petal, each in its own time and season," Hoffman introduces us to Green, a gentle teen whose name reveals her connection to the earth and a peaceful beauty that contrasts with her sunny sister, Aurora. Yet when Aurora and her parents perish in tragic, fiery events in town, a solitary Green transforms herself into Ash: hard and closed, cropped hair, thorns on her sweater, with ink roses and ravens drawn on her skin. Facing an apocalyptic future of looters visiting her garden and suspicious looks from townsfolk, Green has only the family dog to keep her company. But when a ghostly greyhound and a hooded boy suddenly appear for companionship, she slowly realizes that "Ash" is only temporary, while "Green" is her soul, her life, healing all this time inside, waiting to be reborn.

Weaving magical words into images that caress the spirit, Hoffman's Green Angel is no less remarkable and awe-inspiring than nature itself. The author has not only told a life-affirming story about a girl who must survive on her own, she's captured emotion itself by using language to enchant and teach. Readers will be absorbed by the book's transcendent power, and as Green begins a new future that takes shape at end of the book, readers will come away feeling rejuvenated and uplifted themselves. Shana Taylor

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A shy 15-year-old girl is left behind one day when her family goes into the city and perishes in a cataclysmic fire. In a boxed review, PW described the novel as "a post-apocalyptic fairy tale leavened with hope." Ages 11-up. (June) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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Green, a girl who is left behind when a terrible disaster takes the lives of her mother, father, and sister, is struggling to survive on her own. Green, considered the most needed by everyone, feels very compassionate about the earth, gardening, and being in the woods. She provided the family with information on cures for common diseases, harvesting times, and crops. The family sold the crops to the market as a source of money. Now, the town in which Green has grown up has been burned, leaving nothing but a few people who survived and a few places of business. Green deals with her emotions and loneliness by drawing on her body with black ink pictures of bats, ravens, and roses. Green becomes friends with a "ghostly" dog, a boy who can't speak, a hawk who has a burnt beak, and a neighbor from whom she used to steal fruit. Green helps each one in a special way, either by giving them food or providing them a place to stay. Each character slowly helps Green remember who she is and places happiness back in her life. All of these characters help Green cope with her emotions toward the loss of her family, along with the love and compassion she gave to them, and allow her finally to release these feelings and tell her own story. 2003, Scholastic Press, Ages 12 up.
— Kristen Jackson

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780439443852
  • Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
  • Publication date: 5/28/2004
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 128
  • Age range: 12 - 17 Years
  • Product dimensions: 3.64 (w) x 7.34 (h) x 0.23 (d)

Meet the Author

Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman
In a prolific career that began with early writings in the American Review, Alice Hoffman has expanded and developed the idea of family and community -- the forces that bind it together and the forces that drive it apart -- with understated and elegant prose and powerful and complex characters.

Biography

Born in the 1950s to college-educated parents who divorced when she was young, Alice Hoffman was raised by her single, working mother in a blue-collar Long Island neighborhood. Although she felt like an outsider growing up, she discovered that these feelings of not quite belonging positioned her uniquely to observe people from a distance. Later, she would hone this viewpoint in stories that captured the full intensity of the human experience.

After high school, Hoffman went to work for the Doubleday factory in Garden City. But the eight-hour, supervised workday was not for her, and she quit before lunch on her first day! She enrolled in night school at Adelphi University, graduating in 1971 with a degree in English. She went on to attend Stanford University's Creative Writing Center on a Mirrellees Fellowship. Her mentor at Stanford, the great teacher and novelist Albert Guerard, helped to get her first story published in the literary magazine Fiction. The story attracted the attention of legendary editor Ted Solotaroff, who asked if she had written any longer fiction. She hadn't -- but immediately set to work. In 1977, when Hoffman was 25, her first novel, Property Of, was published to great fanfare.

Since that remarkable debut, Hoffman has carved herself a unique niche in American fiction. A favorite with teens as well as adults, she renders life's deepest mysteries immediately understandable in stories suffused with magic realism and a dreamy, fairy-tale sensibility. (In a 1994 article for The New York Times, interviewer Ruth Reichl described the magic in Hoffman's books as a casual, regular occurrence -- "...so offhand that even the most skeptical reader can accept it.") Her characters' lives are transformed by uncontrollable forces -- love and loss, sorrow and bliss, danger and death.

Hoffman's 1997 novel Here on Earth was selected as an Oprah Book Club pick, but even without Winfrey's powerful endorsement, her books have become huge bestsellers -- including three that have been adapted for the movies: Practical Magic (1995), The River King (2000), and her YA fable Aquamarine (2001).

Hoffman is a breast cancer survivor; and like many people who consider themselves blessed with luck, she believes strongly in giving back. For this reason, she donated her advance from her 1999 short story collection Local Girls to help create the Hoffman Breast Center at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA.

Good To Know

  • Hoffman has written a number of children's books, including Fireflies: A Winter's Tale(1999), Horsefly (2000), and Moondog (2004).

  • Aquamarine was written for Hoffman's best friend, Jo Ann, who dreamed of the freedom of mermaids as she battled brain cancer.

  • Here on Earth is a modern version of Hoffman's favorite novel, Wuthering Heights.

  • Hoffman has been honored with the Massachusetts Book Award for her teen novel Incantation.
      1. Hometown:
        Boston, Massachusetts
      1. Date of Birth:
        March 16, 1952
      2. Place of Birth:
        New York, New York
      1. Education:
        B.A., Adelphi University, 1973; M.A., Stanford University, 1974
      2. Website:
        http://www.alicehoffman.com
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    • Posted April 19, 2009

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      Liked It

      I got this book at the libary one day 'cuz I thought the cover was different...
      Green Angel was a short, easy read, that I really liked.
      It's about a girl who loses her whole family...
      I would recommend this to any of my friends...go read it!!!

      3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted November 9, 2008

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      Emotionally Impacting

      Green Angel was so incredible to me, it was so real. My heart was aching for nearly the entire book. Ms. Hoffman has created a truly unique character, and a very realistic one at that. Green's story is incredibly sad and yet just incredible for the fact that she pulls through, she overcomes the most terrible situation for a teenager, and she comes out stronger than before. I loved the fact that Green found comfort in taking care of others and how just simply hearing someone hum or sing began to mend Green. This book is so emotionally heart wrenching that it's a huge blow to you when something good happens, and you just smile and sigh out a "yes". This is a wonderful book, i would recomend it to everyone I know!

      3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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    • Anonymous

      Posted December 18, 2008

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      Touching

      The story really helps you find yourself. In the process of reading this book I found myself comparing my life to Green's. How I have it so easy.
      And when Diamond comes it's changes everything. I wondered the whole time he was there if he could have started the fire.It keppt me reading, just like the Twilight series. I wish it would have been longer, so I could have kept reading the heartbreaking tale. It made me think. This book made me feel differnet about things. I know, I'm crazy, right? Sure I am, but the boks I read don't usually ever give me that feeling. It's most of the time 'Yes. It's over . I know what happens, time for another book.' But I didn't want to just go on to another book. I wanted to stay there and read it over and over again. Alice Hoffman is one of my favorite writers. She's keeps me on the edge, wanting to know what happens. I really wanted to just flip through to the end, yet something kept me from it and the more I read the book I was glad I hadn't flipped back. It seemed like one of the best books Alice Hoffman has written. I hope she keeps up the great stories!

      2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted December 3, 2008

      A tale of loss...

      This is such an amazing and emotional book. Unlike many others I've read, it's not an action or an adventure story. Instead, it is a harrowing tale of loss and the things Green, the main character, must do to overcome it.
      I loved the character(s) in this book. Green was so developed, you could practically feel her pain. I loved Green herself-- her personality, her quirks, etc. Reading about her pain was heartbreaking. It was so satisfying to read about Green healing.
      Overall, this is definitely a book worth your time. It's short-- it doesn't take that long to read-- but it packs a powerful punch. I'd especially reccommend it to teens, say, 14 up.

      2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted July 27, 2011

      Hurtful healing

      I read this book when I was in fifth grade. It gave me courage to keep oiving, even when i was being put down by everyone else. I loved every moment of ths book.

      1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted June 17, 2009

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      Another Hoffman Winner

      This is one of the shortest books I've read in the past few years. I was able to finish it in under two hours.

      A young girl (of unknown nationality) goes about her complacent routine until one day a tragedy befalls a nearby city and she loses her entire family. Told by the girl herself, it tells of her hope that her family will return, her denial that they won't return after time passes, her fears at being alone, her grief at losing those dear to her. We learn how she copes with being alone in a time of turmoil; her acceptance that there are others worse off than she; and of how she learns that life goes on regardless of what happens around us.

      A compelling, gripping story; packs a lot of punch into a few pages.

      1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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    • Posted January 7, 2009

      green angel

      This book was very interesting. It grabbed my attention and held it there. Once i picked it up I could'nt put it down. I would definetely recommend this book to anyone.

      1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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    • Anonymous

      Posted October 26, 2008

      Favorite Book

      This is a very good book. It's about someone who's lost her family and trys to survive (or see if she wants to survive) and find herself in a world where everything's darkness.

      1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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    • Anonymous

      Posted September 22, 2008

      A-MAZ-ING

      This was a fantastic book! i have read it 6x and it never gets old. its phenomenal! i loved the way the author wrote about the main characters feelings. you could feel the emotion!

      1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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    • Anonymous

      Posted April 27, 2008

      i'm lucy and i am 17 this book is outstanding

      this book of alice hoffman is one of my favorites.Being a teenager turning to adult hood may be a little scare for some of us but when i read this book made me change the way i think of the future(the future is not a book that you can write in of good fortune and that you can get it when ever you want cause you will never know when or how life my turn)in this book i could relate to it in many ways i loved it an i read it for al least 20 times or more.

      1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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    • Anonymous

      Posted September 17, 2007

      For a Few

      Only centain people will be able to understand and enjoy this book. It is not for everyone, It has alot of strong emotions through out the whole book. Dark almost, but under neath it all I found a peace to it that was hard to find at first but it's there. I promise it wont be a waste of time!

      1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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    • Anonymous

      Posted February 5, 2012

      Pretty good read

      I didn't mind the lack of dialogue in this story. So much was said through actions and feelings instead of conversation. Short but touching read.

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    • Anonymous

      Posted February 3, 2012

      Loved it

      I reread this all the time

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    • Anonymous

      Posted January 9, 2012

      A touching story of pure soul searchin.

      Alice Hoffman uses a fluid like prose that is both easy and enjjoyable to read. This is a story of a girl whi finds her world in shambles. Along the way she begins to become sort of a darker character, until in the end she begins to find that her true self can not be hidden. If you enjoy this I highly suggest the follow up titled "Green Witch" it too is a lovely read.

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    • Anonymous

      Posted December 27, 2011

      Beautiful and readable

      Even thou this is a short story, you will find yourself unable to put it down until you have read the book straight through. I highly enjoyed this book and recomend it to you. However, some readers may not enjoy this book for its simplicity. This book should still be given a chance and you dhould let your imagination run wild.

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    • Posted December 21, 2011

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      My favorite book!!!

      I have read this book at least 10 times. I am a very picky reader I refuse to read a book twice if it is not spectacular. Although it is short it reads like poetry with amazing language use. A must read to anyone!!

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    • Anonymous

      Posted December 6, 2011

      Green Angel

      I loved this book. Once you read just one of her books you'll want to read more. Allison Hoffeman's writing is full of surprises. Green Angel is a story of finding the character's true self once she loses the one she loves dearly. I've read this book at least three or more times and still love to read it. Even though it is a short book there is story wait to read inside.

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    • Posted October 25, 2011

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      I love this book.

      This is one of my two favorite books in the world. It was so incredibly beautiful in the way it showed how Green healed and grew up. Everytime I read this book I see more meaning in it, and I still cry throughout the entire thing. In the corniest metaphor ever, it broke my heart and then put it back together again.

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    • Anonymous

      Posted October 10, 2011

      LOVED IT!

      Alice Hoffman is one of my favorite authors and this one did not disappoint. A short novel (novella?) about grief, loss healing....

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    • Posted August 13, 2011

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      Fantastic

      Great book that reads like a fairytale. I enjoyed it so much more than any other newer fairytale books I've read.

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