The Mind's Eye

Eighty-eight-year old Elva and Courtney, an attractive sixteen-year-old with a severed spinal chord, lie in adjacent beds in a grim Bismarck, North Dakota convalescent home. Ignored by the world, the only resource they have left is their imagination.

As Elva and Courtney go on a fantasy trip to Italy (accompanied by Elva's long dead husband and guided by a 1910 travel book), Elva shows Courtney a new way to envision love. But to accept it, and the gift of the imagination, Courtney must make the trip her own--even if she destroys the art Elva holds most dear.

Written entirely in dialogue, Mind's Eye can be performed as reader's theater, but it is a fully satisfying novel. In this extraordinarily innovative, profound, and yet readable book Paul Fleischman makes us all feel what a powerful--and dangerous--tool the imagination can be.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: 09/15/1999
ISBN: 9780805096743
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.27d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 2118 / Mind's Eye
Reading Level: 3.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 2