THE MAGIC OF THE GLITS

by C. S. Adler ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 26, 1979

Jeremy, at twelve, is understandably annoyed when his mother invites a newly orphaned seven-year-old girl to spend the summer at their beach house, then blithely goes on with her painting, expecting him to keep Lynette company. But soon (too soon) Jeremy becomes attached to the shy, adoring little waif, and by the end he's upset because his parents won't adopt the child to save her from an Oliver Twist orphanage. (An uncle does, conveniently late.) To make his behavior more credible and less sentimental, Adler has Jeremy speak roughly to the child on occasion; but Lynette, the object of all his concern, impatience, or whatever, never takes on flesh and blood. As an alternative to her little girl's belief in ickysticky fairies, Jeremy invents the glits, shiny creatures who hide in the sand and grant wishes to anyone good and brave and lucky enough to glimpse one. As he elaborates on the story Jeremy comes to feel that someone (the glits themselves?) is putting the ideas into his head. But readers won't be similarly intrigued, and the glits aren't as different as he would have them be from Lynette's fairies.

Pub Date: Feb. 26, 1979

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Macmillan

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1979

Categories: FICTION