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Storm Steele is an impossible child.
In this inventive, surreal, but somewhat incoherent tale, 12-year-old Storm Steele, a good-hearted but undisciplined boy who has failed at his previous schools, is enrolled by his incompetent father and overbearing stepmother at the experimental School of Possibilities, where strict discipline is the rule. If he fails, he is told, "I will be expelled, and after that, nothing good will be waiting for me in this life." Storm soon runs afoul of a variety of seemingly irrational school regulations. He refuses to take up mandatory hobbies, is uninterested in the girlfriend he has been assigned, and hears rumors of children who have disappeared after failing. This satire about repressive educational methods, vaguely reminiscent of Louis Sachar's Holes, was a bestseller in Parkkola's native Finland. But it is hamstrung by an often awkward and unidiomatic translation ("I waited patiently for the evening meal, and when it arrived, I tried to tell them at the table something vague about my class soccer training and my buddy who was waiting for me in the car park") that makes for halted reading. Ages 9-12. (June)
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Cyrus Shepard
reviewed The School of Possibilities on August 26, 2020
The School of Possibilities
Drugari, prenosim vam svoje utiske o romanu Druga kuća na malo drugaÄiji naÄin, kroz Olujinu ispovest:
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"Zdravo Marko, ja sam Oluja i imam dvanaest godina. Pomalo sam nestaÅ¡an i Äesto zbog toga sebe dovedem u neprilike. Å ta ću, takvog sam duha.
Znam da ćeÅ¡ na kraju knjige biti tužan i poželećeÅ¡ da zaboraviÅ¡ moju priÄu, svestan sam da je teskobna. Siguran sam i da nisi do sada upoznao tragiÄnijeg mladog junaka od mene. Ali moraÅ¡ da preneseÅ¡ svojim prijateljima moju ispovest. Zbog Indije, zbog mame i tate, zbog Tarje, Rona i Jana, zbog svih odbaÄenih, poniženih, zastraÅ¡ivanih i ismevanih. Zbog svih nas koji smo samo želeli da budemo slobodni. IspriÄaj priÄu o Drugoj kući, o mom zatvoru a ne obrazovnoj ustavovi, o postupcima kojima su mi silom nametnuti autoriteti danima ubijali energiju i entuzijazam, o slobodi koju su mi uskraćivali. Sigurno ti se ruina od fabrike oljuÅ¡tenih zidova i mraÄnih kutaka Äini depresivnom i sumraÄnom. Veruj, tamo smo Indija, ja i ostatak druÅ¡tva provodili najlepÅ¡e ukradene trenutke slobode. Tamo sam se ponovo osećao živim.
Svestan sam da su svaki moj bunt, svako suprostavljanje pravilima Druge kuće i neposlušnost ozbiljno sankcionisani, ali ja se ne kajem.
Oduzeli su mi jedinu stvar koja me je Äinila srećnim. Leteo sam, Marko. Dok sam skejtovao, osećao sam kao da letim. Sada su moja krila zakljuÄana u ormanu Druge kuće i nemam pristup njima. Osećam se kao u kavezu. Bunt i neposluÅ¡nost bili su moj revolt, vapaj za povratkom MOJE slobode.
ZnaÅ¡ kako su me tretirali i u, takoreći, prvoj kući. Moja maćeha, ona grozna ptiÄurina Linda Avanto i njena ćerka Mona su koristile svaku priliku, stalno su pronalazile izgovore da me maltretiraju i kažnjavaju. Å ta je tata tu mogao... uvek je bio slab. Zato su on i mama😔
Da li joÅ¡ uvek misliÅ¡ da moja priÄa sme da ostane neispriÄana? MoraÅ¡ da suzbijeÅ¡ tugu, stisneÅ¡ zube, stegneÅ¡ srce i iskucaÅ¡ ove redove. Možda se Äitaoci neće nasmejati uz ovu priÄu, ali će znati kako izgleda kada Äoveku oduzmeÅ¡ ono najdragocenije - slobodu. Razumeće i zaÅ¡to je svaki moj postupak imao opravdanje.
Pogledaj na vrhu dimnjaka oronule fabrike. Vidiš li sjaj? To je sigurno Indija, mojim dvogledom posmatra zvezde. Idem. Sloboda me zove."
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