Book Review: The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts

[juushika]

Title: The Girl with the Silver Eyes
Author: Willo Davis Roberts
Published: Alladin, 2017 (1980)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 200
Total Page Count: 534,705
Text Number: 1958
Read Because: mentioned on rachelmanija's 100 books list, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Nine-year-old Katie has strange silver eyes and the stranger ability to move objects around with her mind. Seeing this title on a formative book list hit me with nostalgia, but upon (re?)reading ... I have zero memory of it! Go figure that; and I liked it without the benefit of nostalgia. Our strange, misunderstood, bright, awful protagonist is easy to identify with but, though the power of telekinesis and a burgeoning social group, also incredible wish-fulfillment, and her skeptical, limited PoV makes for an engaging little mystery plot which is more believable and authentically young than it is strained, with a satisfyingly nuanced ending.

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[radiantfracture]

I remember loving this book as a young person, but only the vague contours of its plot.