The World Imagined (Pearson English Graded Readers)

The World Imagined is a coming of age tale for all adults who never forgot the fragile brilliance and lurking terrors of being a child. As a girl keenly aware of her difference yet lacking access to the history that would place her Judith Slater moves through illnesses and frailties finding herself a brave Diana guardian of the forests and later a woman with the strength to seek the very past that eluded her. Throughout this tender utterly authentic book we see astute portraits of childhood hyper-vigilance as well as a souls fierce joy. Slater writes with the subtle care of a poet in language that is acutely sensitive and lyrically moving. She not only discovers a self in the world (and a profound self it is) but imagines one into being. --Lia Purpura