By Colorado Kids Advisory Board member Anna Blakney

Title: Hannah, Divided
Author: Adele Griffin
Cover Artist/ Illustrator: Bonnie Christensen
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Number of Pages: 263

Hannah, Divided is a book that is about a girl that is a child prodigy at math but cannot read. She like to play dolls and jump rope She can work numbers very well and fast in her head. When Mrs. Teddy Sweet comes to town she gives Hannah Bennett an offer she can't refuse. Mrs. Sweet offers to sponser Hannah while she goes to a school called the Ottley Friends in Philidelphia. At first her parents don't agree because they need her to help work on the farm and they think that she is already too smart: but, finally her Grandpa McNaughton persuades them to let her go. There, life is very different and she changes a lot. Around Thanksgiving her Grandpa dies and
she goes home on short notice. The book is called Hannah, Divided because she has to decide if she wants to go back to Ottley Friends and take the exams.

What I liked about this book was that it had a very intriguing plot. I didn't like that it got very boring during the middle of the book, while she was going to school. I would recommend this book because it was very well written and I liked how it ended. Other books I would recommend that are similar to this great book are Tuck Everlasting and Lily's Crossing. The book says that ages 9-12 are acceptable to read this but i would say it would be more like 10-12 because it is a little harder to understand. (December, 2002)