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The Visitors
The Visitors | Rebecca Mascull
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Imagine if you couldn't see couldn't hear couldn't speak... Then one day somebody took your hand and opened up the world to you. Adeliza Golding is a deafblind girl, born in late Victorian England on her father's hop farm. Unable to interact with her loving family, she exists in a world of darkness and confusion; her only communication is with the ghosts she speaks to in her head, who she has christened the Visitors. One day she runs out into the fields and a young hop-picker, Lottie, grabs her hand and starts drawing shapes in it. Finally Liza can communicate. Her friendship with her teacher and with Lottie's beloved brother Caleb leads her from the hop gardens and oyster beds of Kent to the dusty veldt of South Africa and the Boer War, and ultimately to the truth about the Visitors.
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Jess_Franzino
The Visitors | Rebecca Mascull
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Mehso-so

A serious “meh” on this one. On one hand, it was a lovely & unique concept: A deaf-blind Victorian girl is able to talk to ghosts that she calls “Visitors”. Also, the writing is absolutely lovely, as well as the themes. However, the way that that character progressed through her studies was a bit unrealistic, & the 2nd half of the book seemed to lose focus and was suddenly about the Boer War.