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In this charming, heartwarming, and sage real-life account of her yearlong adventure, a high school junior records her experiences as an exchange student in France.Reading Postcards from France is like getting a letter from a friend. Told through the correspondence Megan Libby sent home from Europe, it brings to life her many experiences during her year abroad: her struggles with the language, learning to eat rabbit, her attempt at cooking Thanksgiving dinner (lacking a turkey, she improvises with a deer), and her profound loneliness in a culture where teens rarely get a chance to socialize outside of their highly structured school day.Refreshing and insightful, Postcards from France is the perfect giftbook for teens and parents who want a true picture of the varied difficulties and infinite rewards of spending time abroad.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 8 UpLibby, a high school junior from Ridgefield, CT, spent the 1994-95 school year in France as an AFS (American Field Service) student. Her account of this year abroad is organized into 12 "postcards." These short chapters cover language, food, school, friendships, dogs, and other aspects of French life. The author is an intelligent, perceptive young woman who writes with style, insight, and a touch of humor. Her book's principal disadvantage is its brevity. Readers will want more, much more detail and information. Nonetheless, Postcards from France is an enjoyable and thought-provoking read that will be useful for French students as well as for all teens who have been, or hope to be involved in foreign exchange/study abroad programs.Ann W. Moore, Schenectady County Public Library, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Sophisticated and captivating, this collection of 12 essays by a 15-year-old American exchange student was originally published as a monthly series of articles in the Ridgefield Press of Connecticut, in her hometown. Sent by the American Field Service, Libby spent 10 months of 1994- 95 in Valence, between Lyon and Avignon, where she learned much about France, America and herself. For three and a half months, she suffered acute language problems, but found one day, sitting in a cafe, that she could speak as well as understand. Probably her greatest shock was the difference in teenage life: French young people can drink at 16 but cannot drive until 18; most smoke; they go to school six days a week, with seven hours in class and four doing homework, so there is little socializing but plenty of learning. She found the cliché that the French live to eat accurate but was surprised to find few became fat; in fact, she lost 20 pounds. Above all, she discovered little truth to the truism that the French are rude or hostile to Americans. Her writing is ingenuous, warm and, in spots, most touching. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 8^-12. Before Connecticut high-schooler Megan Libby leaves to spend her junior year in Valence, France, she arranges to write a monthly column for a local newspaper about her experiences as a foreign exchange student. Those 12 columns (now chapters) cover a variety of subjects, from the total exhaustion of language immersion to French dogs at the dinner table. Sophisticated and witty, Libby does a fine job of exploring, confirming, and blasting American stereotypes of the French. Although this slender and highly entertaining memoir will be especially appealing to Francophiles and French students, it should also appeal to any student who has ever toyed with the idea of living abroad. There is a certain careful, studied feel to the text, but the laugh-out-loud passages (such as Libby's attempt to provide an authentic American Thanksgiving feast with venison instead of turkey) temper the formal essay quality that occasionally appears. An attractive photo-collage dust jacket with snapshots of Libby in France completes the enticing package. --Debbie Carton