Hastin comes under the "care" of Timir and awaits his duties as a elephant keeper (Timir and his assistant Sharad must first capture an elephant). Hastin finds work as an elephant keeper under a seeming huckster named Timir who is planning to re-establish his circus, having had some success as a circus man before. When he senses his mother's mistreatment and witnesses the harsh conditions she must endure, Hastin vows to find a way to secure a job to make the payment to the hospital (but not until the camel has eaten part of the master's topiary).
An extended hospital stay means that Hastin not only has to stay home by himself even longer, it means that his mother must take on a servant capacity job in order to pay off the rupees necessary to cover her daughter's care.Ī chance invitation to go into town to help a friend sell a camel (one of the books early charming moments), affords Hastin a chance to see his mother and her new workplace. His only companion piece in the world now is the small stone that his deceased father left for him along with the story of its coloration and smoothness. When Hastin's younger sister falls ill and has to go to the hospital, Hastin stays behind to take care of the home. It has all of elements of a class/student friendly read, and I wouldn't be surprised to see CHAINED adopted not only at the classroom level, but by university professors offering multicultural titles as part of their MG/YA literature survey courses. Out of the gate, CHAINED is one of those middle grade/early YA books we will talk about in the spring of 2012. Which titles will lead us to deeper understandings of our place in this world and our connection with others-familiar and unfamiliar? Local and global? With our fellow man.and with nature? And we ask all of these questions while holding on dearly to those books we have loved this year, right? And finally, what book will fill up the Goodreads feed with the number of times it will be marked "To Read" by the community here? We're always wondering, right? What book will capture our attention in the next year? Pull at us in all of the places a work can pull? Lead us to discussions-not only with our reading community at large-but that community at very, very small-our classroom.
Hankins how to use a hashtag on Twitter ((just in case you wanted to know who to blame for this)) but to the publisher, Farrar Straus Giroux as well for this early, early review.but you see? My apologies-in advance-to not only Lynne Kelly (who-by the way-taught Mr. You never want to come out too early in review of a book, and CHAINED doesn't release until May of 2012.
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