Green Angel

Alice Hoffman

Feb 2010 · Sold by Scholastic Inc.

About this ebook

Alice Hoffman is at her magical best in a new novel about loss and healing.When her family is lost in a terrible disaster, 15-yr-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere, Green retreats into the ruined realm of her garden. But in destroying her feelings, she also begins to destroy herself, erasing the girl she'd once been as she inks ravens into her skin. It is only through a series of mysterious encounters -- with a ghostly white dog and a mute boy -- that Green relearns the lessons of love and begins to heal as she tells her own story.

Ratings and reviews

Read Green Angel by Alice Hoffman in one sitting. It was a great book full of hope and loss. Green Angel follows Green after a terrible accident that leaves her on her own. It follows her as she struggles to get her life back together. Having lost everyone around her Green begins to lose herself she then returns to her garden trying to piece her life back together, Green needs to learn to live and love again. Can't wait to pick up Green Witch and Green Heart.

I read this as a child, and ever since then this has been my most favorite book that really touched my heart. The first time I read it brought me to tears.. Beautiful book

This has been one of my favorites from the first time that I picked it up years ago. An amazing story of the hardships that can lead to finding oneself again after such a deep loss.

About the author

Alice Hoffman is the highly acclaimed author of over thirty novels for readers of all ages, including The Dovekeepers, The World That We Knew -- winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, The Marriage of Opposites, Practical Magic, Incantation, The Foretelling, and most recently, The Invisible Hour. Her previous novels for Scholastic Press are Aquamarine, which was made into a major motion picture, Indigo, Green Witch, and Green Angel, which Publishers Weekly, in a boxed, starred review, called "achingly lovely." She lives outside of Boston.