Hazel and Jack had been best friends since they were six spending Minneapolis summers and winters dreaming of Oz and Hogwarts and any other fantasy land there was. Now that they were eleven though, it was weird for a boy and girl to be together. The two couldn't help it though. They fit. One day though, Jack's heart becomes frozen but Hazel doesn't know that. All she knows is that Jack isn't talking to her and is acting mean to her. And things don't get much better. If anything they become stranger. Hazel is used to the strange and fantastical. When she finds that Jack has been taken to the woods by a white witch she goes after him believing that she can get him back. Along the way she runs into wolves,a woman who knit lives and many, many other strange things and people. The woods aren't like she thought they would be. Animals didn't talk and things weren't full of happily ever afters. By the end Hazel isn't sure that the same Jack that she went into the forest to find will come out or even that the same Hazel will come back from the woods.
I've been hearing about this book for awhile from some of my favorite authors, but it wasn't until recently that I decided to give it a try and I was surprised with what I found. The book was amazing, in the fact that I felt so deeply for Hazel throughout it. I felt her confusion and her frustration on how the adults don't understand that Jack was her best friend and how he would never not be. I especially loved the parts when Anne Ursa shed light on Hazel's childlike imagination. All I could remember when I was reading those parts was when I was in elementary school and I used to play spies and heroes with my friends. The magic was simple and beautiful with a twist of something not quite light and not quite dark in it. If you know your Greek Mythology and your fairy tales, like I do ,then you'll find some familiar faces in this book. Breadcrumbs digs deep into what it's like to grow up and how friendships can change and shift but also how we should fight to keep things that are important to us alive. It was a work of art dealing with everything from trying to find a place in the world to making and keeping new and old friends. I would recommend this book to pretty much anyone from 10 and up. If parents are worried about magic, then there's a bit in this, but other than that there isn't any swearing or adult situations. I hope you give it a try, because I am sure it will enchant you like it enchanted me. Happy readings!
I've been hearing about this book for awhile from some of my favorite authors, but it wasn't until recently that I decided to give it a try and I was surprised with what I found. The book was amazing, in the fact that I felt so deeply for Hazel throughout it. I felt her confusion and her frustration on how the adults don't understand that Jack was her best friend and how he would never not be. I especially loved the parts when Anne Ursa shed light on Hazel's childlike imagination. All I could remember when I was reading those parts was when I was in elementary school and I used to play spies and heroes with my friends. The magic was simple and beautiful with a twist of something not quite light and not quite dark in it. If you know your Greek Mythology and your fairy tales, like I do ,then you'll find some familiar faces in this book. Breadcrumbs digs deep into what it's like to grow up and how friendships can change and shift but also how we should fight to keep things that are important to us alive. It was a work of art dealing with everything from trying to find a place in the world to making and keeping new and old friends. I would recommend this book to pretty much anyone from 10 and up. If parents are worried about magic, then there's a bit in this, but other than that there isn't any swearing or adult situations. I hope you give it a try, because I am sure it will enchant you like it enchanted me. Happy readings!
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